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My life as JT LeRoy: Savannah Knoop on playing the great literary hoaxer

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He was a rags-to-riches writer adored by everyone from Bono to Madonna. But JT LeRoy was actually Savannah Knoop in a wig. As the scam becomes a film, the performer tells all

Savannah Knoop and I meet up at a hotel in London – on April Fools’ Day, a date so ludicrously apt I can’t resist commenting on its suitability. “Oh yeah,” they say, with a slightly strained grin. Knoop believes what they did was not so much a prank as a performance: “Although someone recently described it to me as a caper.

 

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