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Didn't anyone ever think to check on the psychologist at UCSF who had supposedly been treating JT Leroy? As I recall, Pat Montandon (whose own son has now written a memoir about HER) was the first to claim that she had "discovered" JT and hooked him up with the psychologist. This was back in the days when she had a column in the SF Chronicle! There are a lot of people in San Francisco who have a lot of 'splaining to do.
On a related note, apparently celebrities have a lot of time to talk to psychos on the phone. Remember the fictional "Miranda," the model/medical student who talked to Buck Henry, Richard Perry, Quincy Jones, even Warren Beatty in the '70s? She turned out to be an overweight social work from Baton Rouge, and Q had the class to take her out to dinner in LA anyway.