Storyville - Season 21 Episode 2 The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
An inside account of a scandal that duped celebrities and the literary world. Former homeless youth JT LeRoy become an 'it boy' beloved by stars like Madonna and Courtney Love. His tough prose about his sordid childhood captivated icons and luminaries internationally. But in 2005 an article in a New York magazine sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked JT LeRoy. It turned out LeRoy didn't actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator Laura Albert. The JT LeRoy Story takes us down the infinitely fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert breathed not only words but also life into her avatar for a decade.
First Air Date: Nov 15, 1997
Last Air date: Jun 18, 2024
Season: 28 Season
Episode: 660 Episode
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDb: 7.57/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 19.708
Language: English
Keyword : current affairs
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Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
Notes On Blindness
Life, Animated
Killing For Love
Murder in Italy
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
Last Days of Solitary
OJ: Made in America - Part 1
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OJ: Made in America - Part 3
OJ: Made in America - Part 4
OJ: Made in America - Part 5
Tokyo Girls
Oink: Man Loves Pig
This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
Queerama
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
The Boy Who Changed America
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs the United States
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
My Mother's Lost Children
Last Men in Aleppo
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
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