# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-israel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:24.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-israel"
name: "Lee Israel"
slug: "lee-israel"
description: "Leonore Carol \"Lee\" Israel was an American author known for committing literary forgery. Her 2008 confessional autobiography Can You Ever Forgive Me? was adapted into the 2018 film of the same name starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel."
tagline: "American author and forger (1939-2014)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-12-03"
deathDate: "2014-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.34
  momentum:             2.501795547043332
  historical:           8.254658666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7254572/"
    handle:    "nm7254572"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Israel"
    title: "Lee Israel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "لي إزرائيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Israel"
    title: "Lee Israel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Israel"
    title: "Lee Israel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Israel"
    title: "Lee Israel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "لی ایزریل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Israel"
    title: "Lee Israel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C"
    title: "לי ישראל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18763732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1634560"
    title: "Lee Israel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump