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NEW YORK (AP) - To writer Laura Albert, her alter ego was a psychological necessity, but to jurors, the fictitious male prostitute JT LeRoy was a fraud. A Manhattan jury decided Friday that Albert had defrauded a production company that bought the movie rights to an autobiographical novel marketed as being based on LeRoy's life.
The federal jury, after a short deliberation, awarded $116,500 to Antidote International Films Inc.
The San Francisco author, who went to strange lengths to hide her identity behind the nonexistent LeRoy, condemned the jury's decision, saying it had ominous implications for artists.
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