BACKSTORY For author Laura Albert, a devotee of indie designers and local boutiques as well as European labels, fashion serves the dual purpose of expression and approachability. Her layered, haute ...

The Manhattan jury awarded Antidote $116,500 in finding Laura Albert guilty and Antidote settled its claims against both Bloomsbury Publishing and Albert’s manager, Judi Farkas, the plaintiffs told ...

A jury has decided Laura Albert's authorial alter ego constituted fraud. June 22, 2007 — -- This afternoon, jurors in New York federal court spent several hours getting to the bottom of one of ...

The other night, I went to the JT Leroy interview/event at Hugo House, hosted by Christopher Frizzelle. I've never been knocked out by Leroy's writing the way other people have, but left with a new ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The author at the center of an elaborate literary hoax is finally coming clean -- or so she says. Laura Albert, 40, a New York City native, is acknowledging that she is JT LeRoy, the ...

The festival also announced a period drama with Chris Pine as its opening night film. By Mekado Murphy “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” has excerpts from phone calls a hoaxer secretly recorded while ...

Laura Albert has a picture of Borat pinned to her office wall. It's perfect. Like comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, the 43-year-old San Francisco novelist invented an outrageous character to grab the ...

. I follow them through the front door and pass through the home: In the front room, a cool gallery featuring a collection of driftwood pieces, then a narrow hallway leading to a small living room ...

Laura Albert — the writer behind the infamous “JT LeRoy” literary hoax — told Page Six she’s penning a memoir that addresses the scandal. (Ex-druggie and prostitute author LeRoy was particularly ...

"I had this feeling there was more to the story — perhaps much more to the story — than we were being told," director Jeff Feuerzeig told THR about one of history’s greatest literary hoaxes at his doc ...

Three years after Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern both starred in Kelly Reichardt’s elegant 2016 drama “Certain Women,” the powerhouse actresses have reunited, and this time they actually share scenes ...