I believe it was actually a contract to produce a film of Sarah, the big-ass bestseller book (but was also possibly going to star uh . . JT Leroy). Since JT Leroy was the major signatory on all the contracts, and checks, then as the architect of whatever it was that was going on, yes, she willfully commited fraud.
There's something very deeply sad about all of this-- part of it (for me) stems to the fact that Ian gave me Sarah as a birthday present many years ago. Poppy Z Brite wrote something incredibly moving about it a while ago . . . she was one of the many people who formed a long-term friendship with JT before it came out that JT was not JT.
I think that yes, things like this can be written about without appearing insane . . it's something that Bowie kind of did do for a while before the musician became more attractive than the image he created for himself. The sad part about this story is, that Albert truly IS insane-- she's just also very, very talented.
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Date: 2007-06-22 12:06 am (UTC)There's something very deeply sad about all of this-- part of it (for me) stems to the fact that Ian gave me Sarah as a birthday present many years ago. Poppy Z Brite wrote something incredibly moving about it a while ago . . . she was one of the many people who formed a long-term friendship with JT before it came out that JT was not JT.
I think that yes, things like this can be written about without appearing insane . . it's something that Bowie kind of did do for a while before the musician became more attractive than the image he created for himself. The sad part about this story is, that Albert truly IS insane-- she's just also very, very talented.
Sigh.