NEW YORK (Reuters) - A best-selling author who pretended to be a 19-year-old male prostitute covered up her identity to profit from her novel and gain a movie deal, a lawyer for the film company suing her said in closing arguments on Thursday.
"Sarah," about a transgender boy who works alongside his mother as a truck-stop prostitute, was published in 2000 under the name J.T. Leroy, who was described as a teenage male prostitute. It was actually written by Brooklyn mother Laura Albert, who is now 41 and lives in San Francisco.
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