Author of J. T. Leroy Book Owes Production Company $350,000

Judge Jed S. Kaplan has awarded fees of $350,000, three times what a jury awarded, to Antidote Films, the production that purchased the rights to the book Sarah from “J.T. Leroy,” later revealed to be writer Laura Albert. Albert lost a fraud case to Antidote earlier this year. Antidote claimed that it was deceived into thinking that Leroy was a real person and thus that it bargained for something other than what it actually received. Read more in an AP story here.