jt leroy
Fashion
The creative duo bringing 'lot lizard' culture to East London
Designer Gui Rosa and creative director-photographer Harry Freegard draw inspiration from the sordid underbelly of JT Leroy’s Middle America.
Mahoro Seward
5.29.20
News
watch kristen stewart as a literary scammer in the trailer for 'j.t. 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.
Annabel Blue
4.5.19
Culture
‘author: the jt leroy story’ is the unheard story behind the greatest literary scandal of all time
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...
Hannah Ongley
9.9.16
News
watch the first trailer for a documentary about the jt leroy literary scandal
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.
Hannah Ongley
7.19.16