Theresa Duncan Update

In the latest LA Weekly, Kate Coe sheds some serious light on the Theresa Duncan tragedy. It's a story of lies, ambition, and, increasingly, paranoia. Coe, who knew Duncan, details the fantasy world Duncan constructed--lying on resumes and in magazine articles about her age and education; inflating projects she was involved with--and how, when her Hollywood dreams fell through, she began "blaming her lack of success on the Church of Scientology, saying the church was influencing 'the studios.'"

As it turns out, if anyone was a stalker in this tale, it was Duncan. One of her targets was, of all people, religion scholar Reza Aslan."Whenever he appeared on TV, she contacted him with strange rants," Coe writes. "He gave Duncan's threatening messages to his lawyer because 'I wanted someone else to know about this.'"

Beauty. Brains. Bonkers.

The question now is, what the hell was going on in Jeremy Blake's head?

Read Coe's piece here.

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