jt leroy

In the mid-2000s the J.T. Leroy saga scandalised the literary world, now it's a movie starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and a lot of wigs.

In the early 2000s, the art world erupted when HIV-afflicted teen author JT LeRoy was revealed to be a 40-year-old single mother called Laura Albert. Jeff Feuerzeig's new documentary on the incredible art world scandal tells a previously unheard side...

In the early 2000s, gender non-conforming wunderkind JT LeRoy was mingling with Winona Ryder and Gus Van Sant. Then he was revealed to be a 40-year-old former phone sex operator from Brooklyn.