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The public exposure of “JT LeRoy” was one of the biggest literary scandals of the new millennium. In October 2005, New York magazine published an article alleging that the HIV-positive, transgendered literary sensation, who claimed that their sordid tales of truck-stop prostitutes and drug-addicted runaways were based on their own abusive childhood, didn’t actually exist. Then a few months later, The New York Times revealed that the person who had been appearing at book signings and red-carpet premieres as LeRoy was actually named Savannah Knoop, and “LeRoy’s” publicist ”Speedie” was actually a San Francisco housewife named Laura Albert, who was also—to complicate things further—the true author of LeRoy’s books.