Author of Goldman Sachs Twitter Parody Account Loses Book Deal
John Lefevre, the 34-year-old former bond executive who wrote the Goldman Sachs Twitter parody account despite never actually working at Goldman Sachs, has lost his book deal.
Lefevre’s @GSElevator account supposedly detailed the absurd conversations overheard in the firm’s elevators, but it was eventually discovered that wasn’t true. Lefevre even admitted to stealing the idea from another parody account.
It was only last week that Lefevre’s identity was revealed, but it seems that’s all the time it took for Simon & Shuster to realize that publishing a book which bases its humor on something that didn’t happen was a bad call.
Lefevre told Business Insider that the decision to cancel the book was a “comical mystery” to him.
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