![]() This would probably be my origin story as a crime lord too. Then her cat got sick and she needed $75 to get some testing done at the vet. I was only four when Lee’s legal shenanigans occurred so I missed the original scandal- was there much of a scandal? This was a fairly niche crime…Īnyway, Lee Israel had a mildly successful career as a biographer but after a series of contracts failed to produce a manuscript, and therefore she had to return her advances, Lee was resorting to selling her personal collection of books to make ends meet. ![]() I heard about Lee Israel and her forged autograph scheme during Melissa McCarthy’s Oscar campaign this year. Every letter reproduced here, along with hundreds like them, were turned out by me - conceived, written, typed, and signed - in my perilously held studio apartment in the shadow of Zabar’s on New York’s Upper West Side in 19. ![]()
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