Attorney Fees
$ 1 Million Fee Request Trimmed
Novelist Laura Albert has been ordered to pay a film production company $350,000 in legal fees and court costs after losing a dispute over rights to a film based on her book.
The company had sought $1 million in attorney fees, the New York Times reports.
Albert had identified herself as JT LeRoy when she wrote the book and when she sold film rights to Antidote International Films. The book was supposedly an autobiography of LeRoy’s tough life in Appalachia as the son of a truck-stop prostitute.
A jury ordered Albert to pay $116,000 in damages last month for misleading Antidote.
