(who was duped and who profited by this hoax)
Another documentary tonight 8-27-2018 look in your listings)

Asia Argento and Others Are Angry About Being in JT LeRoy Documentary

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From left, Laura Albert, Savannah Knoop and Asia Argento in Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary “Author: The JT LeRoy Story.”CreditCreditAmazon Studios/Magnolia Pictures

By Colin Moynihan

• Sept. 11, 2016
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When JT LeRoy, a young H.I.V.-positive novelist from West Virginia, whose fiction supposedly mirrored his tough life as a teenage hustler, was revealed in 2006 to be a literary hoax, many who had considered themselves friends or sought to help his career felt betrayed.

A decade later, a documentary that includes calls with authors and celebrities recorded secretly by the hoax’s perpetrator, Laura Albert, has reopened old wounds and raised questions about whether documentary films, increasingly seen as potent forms of journalism, should adhere to the same standards as other types of reporting.

“This is downright evil and disturbing,” said the actress and director Asia Argento, who did not know that her conversations had been recorded or that excerpts were in the documentary. “I am very angry.”

The documentary, “Author: The JT LeRoy Story,” released last Friday, recounts Ms. Albert’s trajectory largely from her perspective. After she agreed to speak with the director, Jeff Feuerzeig, he discovered that for years she had recorded her phone conversations, preserving cassette tapes labeled with the names of people like Ms. Argento and the writers Mary Karr and Dennis Cooper.

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