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In a '' New York '' magazine article in October 2005, Stephen Beachy suggested that LeRoy was a literary Hoax created by Albert. Beachy suggested that Albert was not only LeRoy's friend Emily Frasier, but also Speedie, LeRoy's street-hustling friend, and LeRoy himself. To date, Albert has neither confirmed nor denied that she was behind the creations of LeRoy, Frasier, and Speedie. Investigation showed that the advance for LeRoy's first novel, ''Sarah,'' was paid to Laura Albert's sister, JoAnna Albert, and that further payments to LeRoy were made to a Nevada corporation, Underdogs Inc., whose president is Carolyn F. Albert, Laura Albert's mother. The '' itinerary for three people instead of the four described in the article. Employees at Disneyland Paris and two Paris hotels confirmed that the person claiming to be JT LeRoy matched photographs of Laura Albert, who told the employees she was traveling with her husband and son. She told hotel employees who thought JT LeRoy was male that she was a Transsexual Woman who had Sex Reassignment Surgery three years earlier. A 9 January 2006 article in the ''New York Times'' gave evidence that the role of LeRoy was played publicly by Savannah Knoop , the half-sister of Albert's partner. Geoffrey Knoop stated Albert was the author of the JT LeRoy works in a 7 February 2006 follow-up article in the ''New York Times.'' REFERENCES |
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