Author who posed as prostitute faces NY fraud case
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A best-selling novelist who pretended she was a 19-year-old male prostitute sought to defend herself in court on Wednesday against claims she defrauded a film company that bought the rights to her book.
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Allegedly scamming a Virginia businesswoman could prove to be a major mistake for a Democratic congressman from New Orleans.
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The editor of Playboy Indonesia went on  trial on Thursday on charges of distributing indecent pictures  to the public and making money from them, which could carry a  jail term of up to 32 months.
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The author at the center of an elaborate literary hoax is finally coming clean &#151; or so she says.
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A popular romance novelist alleged to have lifted work from other texts acknowledged that she sometimes "takes" her material "from reference books," but added that she didn't know she was supposed to credit her sources.
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By TOM HAYS NEW YORK - A woman who bills herself as the first openly lesbian Playboy Playmate sued a taxi driver, police and the city on Friday, claiming that officers needlessly roughed her up based on the cabbie's false accusation that she was armed and dangerous.
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A former well-known New York stockbroker pleaded guilty Tuesday to cheating his clients out of millions of dollars and generating fraudulent commissions for himself.
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The woman who penned an "autobiography" under the pseudonym JT LeRoy testified Wednesday that the tale of life as a truck-stop prostitute wasn't real &#151; but that doesn't mean it was a hoax.
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A woman accused of running a prostitution ring catering to Washington's elite offered the phone records of her escort service to the media and others on Thursday in hopes of uncovering witnesses to aid her defense.
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Photographer Larry Birkhead, who was proved in April to be the biological father of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, said Tuesday he will sue the author and publisher of a new book on Smith's death that contains allegations he called "pure fiction."
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The actress sued the club for unauthorised publication of her image on their website.
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The lawyer for actress Kristie Alley, a Scientologist, has sent a letter to a magazine for carrying a fashion expert's joke about the religion.
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An author sued by a film company after her novel about life as a truck-stop prostitute was exposed as a hoax was found liable for fraud on Friday in a case involving tales of the author's multiple personalities.
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Star Jones has been sued for more than &#36;7,000 for work a gardener says he did on her Manhattan penthouse terrace to prepare it for an Architectural Digest photo layout.
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An accused prostitution ringleader  said a Time Warner Inc.  Chief Financial Officer was her  "sugar daddy" in a relationship where he had showered her with  gifts, two New York tabloid newspapers reported on Saturday.
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An authorâs throwback view on the culture of casual sex among young women is under fire.
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Laura Albert, the writer known as JT Leroy, took the witness stand today at her civil fraud trial in Manhattan.