Who Is The 'Real' JT LeRoy?

This is how the story goes...

'Sarah' is an 'autobiographical' narrative written by Mr LeRoy (Jeremiah 'Terminator' LeRoy) about life as a truck-stop prostitute, in California, told by a 12 year old boy, nicknamed Cherry Vanilla, who aspires to be a girl.
The controversial subject in Mr Le Roy's work created interest and various journalists sought out his identity.  Mr Le Roy, claiming to be shy, appeared in public in a blonde wig, big shades and a hat, protected by his family, claiming they were there to protect him from temptations of his former life as a drug addict.
However, in an article in New York magazine, by Stephen Beachy, in Oct. 2005, raised the possibility that Mr Le Roy didn't exist and suggested that Ms Laura Albert might be the author, saying that he felt the 'hoax' was a promotional device.
Ms Albert later confirmed this, claiming that Mr Le Roy was a 'veil' and not a 'hoax' by writing as Mr Le Roy, she was able to write things she could not have done as Ms Albert.  However, the work being passed off as autobiography, was clearly fiction.
A media frenzy ensued as Mr Le Roy's readers came to terms with the fact that they had been duped by an elaborate literary hoax.
In Jan. 2006, The Times named the person who had appeared in disguise as Mr Le Roy was, in fact, Savannah Knoop, the half-sister of Ms Albert's partner, Geoffrey.
In July 2007, Antidote International Films, which had bought the rights to adapt 'Sarah', sued Ms Albert for fraud; she had signed documents as Mr Le Roy.  She was ordered to pay 350,000 dollars in legal fees.  The trial, covered by Alan Feuer, for The Times, was 'an oddly highbrow exploration of a psyche-literary landscape filled with references to the imagination's fungible relation to reality and the bond that exists between the writer and the work.'
In 2008, Savannah Knoop published Girl Boy Girl: How I became JT Le Roy, a memoir about her years spent as Le Roy.
A story of our times.  There are others.
This blog has been written by Gabriel Kadmon while Julie is in Cuba.