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Maybe there is such a thing as bad publicity.
Literary fraudster Laura Albert, better known by her nom de plume, JT LeRoy, is suing Bloomsbury Publishing in Manhattan Federal Court.
Albert—who came to notoriety in 2005, when it came to light that she was actually the writer LeRoy, a supposed gay teen prostitute and drug addict—is asking for for $131,573.60 in damages, claiming that the book publishing house both used royalties she was due to settle a lawsuit, and blew a golden opportunity to promote her work following a 2007 fraud trial.
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