Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about LEE ISRAEL!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Leonore “Lee” Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was an american author . her profile of Katharine Hepburn ran in the November 1967 edition of Esquire magazine . Israel’s magazine-writing career continued into the 1970s and 1980s . she published biographies of actress Tallulah Bankhead and game-show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen . the book was well received upon author was unable to speak with her before she died in 2014 . “i accepted the offer though I didn’t give a shit about her warts,” she said . in 1985, Lauder wrote an autobiography that her publisher timed to coincide with Israel’s book . in the book, Israel discredited Lauder’s public statements that she was born into aristocracy timothy stanley: after failure, Israel’s career went into decline, compounded by alcoholism . she says to make money, she began forging letters by deceased writers and actors . stan she sold forged works and stolen originals for over a year . a nol coward expert said coward would not have referenced homosexual activities so enthusiastically . the sheer abundance of letters being sold by Israel aroused suspicion among autograph collectors, dealers and used bookstore owners . other researchers believe they became suspicious of paper with anachronistic watermarks . the forgeries she was selling to collectors were overlooked by law enforcement . but when an Ernest Hemingway letter was in the archives, it was replaced by a forgery . an investigation showed that Israel had stolen in Israel’s memoir, she cites FBI documents from her case file . she says she waited for Hock to meet her so they could count the cash from a sale he had made . when she exite the two agents on the sidewalk left without arresting her or telling her what was going to happen next . she immediately returned to her apartment and started to destroy all evidence of her crimes . by the time she was served with a federal Israel pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property in 1993 . she served six months under house arrest and five years of probation . some of her forgeries were still being sold as authentic . “what this is is is a hilarious memoir of a self-described miscreant” a reviewer wrote, “ironically, in a joke the reader will share, we all participate in buying her that meal” in her memoir, she wrote: “i had a brother with whom I had never had much in common” in July 2015, Moore claimed she had been fired from the project . in May 2016, it was confirmed that Melissa McCarthy would play McCarthy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Israel . “Fakes and fortunes: has the time come to forgive literary forger Lee Israel?”. The Guardian.