Author Laura Albert, who wrote under the name JT LeRoy, must pay $349,500 US in legal fees in a civil suit involving allegations that LeRoy's story was a literary hoax.
She owes another $116,500 US in compensation to Antidote International Films Inc., a film company that bought the rights to her novel, Sarah, about a teenaged male truck stop prostitute.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Kaplan issued an order Monday in a New York courtroom adding the legal fees to the settlement.
Lawyers for Antidote had demanded $850,000 US in legal fees and $214,000 US in expenses, but the judge said a fair settlement was $279,175 US in fees and $70,325 US in expenses.
A jury had earlier awarded $110,000 US to Antidote, which bought the rights to the rights to Sarah then learned six years later that the truck stop prostitute did not exist.
Albert was also ordered to pay an additional $6,500 in punitive damages after the jury found she had acted fraudulently.
Albert testified at her trial that the character of LeRoy existed inside her and was real to her.
She had posed as LeRoy in telephone interviews and sent friends dressed as the putative former prostitute to book signings.
With files from the Associated PressRelated
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