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Title: JT LeRoy author ordered to pay triple-sized costs
Post by: LostInTime on August 01, 2007, 09:15:02 AM
Post by: LostInTime on August 01, 2007, 09:15:02 AM
Guardian Unlimited (http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2139216,00.html)
Staff and agencies
Wednesday August 1, 2007
Author Laura Albert must pay nearly $350,000 (£173,097) in legal fees, triple the amount a jury said she owes a production company for duping it with a novel supposedly based on the life of a male prostitute named JT LeRoy, a judge has ruled. The author was successfully sued by Antidote International Films Inc, which claimed Albert defrauded it by selling the screen rights to an autobiography which was really fiction.
Staff and agencies
Wednesday August 1, 2007
Author Laura Albert must pay nearly $350,000 (£173,097) in legal fees, triple the amount a jury said she owes a production company for duping it with a novel supposedly based on the life of a male prostitute named JT LeRoy, a judge has ruled. The author was successfully sued by Antidote International Films Inc, which claimed Albert defrauded it by selling the screen rights to an autobiography which was really fiction.