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It seems that Winona Ryder may be a better actress than we all thought she was. She, along with Courtney Love, Rosario Dawson, Tatum O’Neal and Susan Dey, helped perpetuate the entire JT LeRoy is an actual person scam. What kind of world do we live in when we can’t even trust our most beloved actresses to tell the truth?
It seems clear now that at least Ryder and Argento always knew that “JT Leroy” was actually Savannah Knoop, a California woman who posed as the imaginary writer under wigs and oversize sunglasses at book readings, and that Leroy’s prose was actually written by Laura Albert.
No celeb was more complicit in the scheme than Ryder, who spun a tall tale to Steve Garbarino for his 2003 Vanity Fair piece, “The Divine JT Sisterhood,” about how she befriended Leroy when he was a teenage street urchin right after her breakup with Johnny Depp.
“I had two tickets to the opera, and I was, like, ‘I don’t want to go alone,’ ” Ryder said. “And then I saw this kid standing near the doors to the opera house, and he was trying to listen in. He was a total ragamuffin. So I said, ‘Hey, I have this extra ticket. Do you want to go see the opera?’ He was too young to be creepy. He said, ‘Oh, my God! I really wanted to see this!’ I think it was ‘La Boheme.’
“And he was crying throughout it. And I started crying for my own reasons, watching this beautiful kid so affected, someone his age grasping it. We went to this diner afterward and talked. I wanted to take care of him, have him move in, but he said he was heading back south. I fell in love with him. And I’ve been in love with him ever since.”
Where was Oprah Winfrey during all of this? She could have been the voice of reason, and made Winona see the wrongs of her web of lies.
Stars Backed JT Book Fraud [Page Six]
Abedded is not a word sweetheart. I think you maybe mean abetted??
I must be a dumbass becuz for some reason I dont understand this post. What is Winona taking about? Is she saying she fell in love with a fake author? Someone please explain this to me.
What about Shirley Manson DEFENDING this piece of shit as THE REAL THING?
Shirley wrote JT Leroy and said (this was up on JT’s website) “I can assure you, our little bug is really our little bug. I have held hands with him, I know he’s for real.”
Makes me think a LOT LESS of her.
Oh and Stephen Jenkins as well. He wrote a similar note.
In other words they didn’t know that the female voice on the phone that they spoke to which IS A FEMALE VOICE was a guy? Laura Albert, the WOMAN WHO WROTE THE STORIES and was always at “JT’s” side (who was played by Savannah Knoop, her SISTER IN LAW), was the voice on the phone! A FEMALE.
These people are IDIOTS!
According to the New York Post, Courtney Love, Rosario Dawson, Tatum O’Neal and Susan Dey all claimed to be fans and friends of Leroy’s, and may all have been in on the gag.