He fascinated Bono, Courtney Love and other stars with best sellers based on his days as a truck-stop teenage hustler. But JT LeRoy didn’t exist. Was he a literary hoax, or the product of one woman’s madness? To check out an excerpt from Guy Lawson’s story in the new issue of Rolling Stone — and hear clips of conversations with Laura Albert, the woman who became HIV-positive, transgender street kid turned celebrated fiction writer Jeremiah “Terminator” LeRoy, discussing her relationship with Billy Corgan— click here.

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