The Smoking Gun article entitled A Million Little Lies was published on 4th January 2006 and was written by Bill Bastone. The six-page analytical article solely focuses on a six-week investigation undertaken by the website to disclose the methodology applied to uncover the truth about Frey’s “fiction addiction” (Bastone, 2006). Since its publication in 2003, Frey had insisted that every detail of the book contained nothing but the truth. In various interviews, he claims that the book is “straight non-fiction” and that Doubleday contacted the people noted in the book ensuring that it was all factually accurate (Bastone, 2006). The inquiry into police reports, court records, and interviews with law enforcement personnel has led to The Smoking
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When the website suggested Frey owed it to his readers and Winfrey to address the issue, Frey responded “there’s nothing at this point that can come out of this conversation that is good for me” (Bastone, 2006). However, during the third interview, Frey finally admitted that he had embellished central details of his past. Frey went to the effort of getting court records purged in order to protect himself from the situation he found himself in. The Smoking Gun questioned why a man needed to protect himself after spending 430 pages writing about every grimy and repulsive detail of his former life. The answer to their question was later discovered in the basement of the Ohio police headquarters where Frey & Co. failed to purge the last remaining document that exposed the truth of Frey’s felonious spree. This thus led The Smoking Gun to discover the truth: Frey’s time in custody did not exceed beyond 5 hours (not 3 months as he had written) and he was released on a $733 cash bond. (Bastone, 2006). Although he would later write vividly about being consumed by an internal rage, Frey’s arrest was mundane – he was simply “a neatly dressed frat boy five months out of school and plastered on cheap beer” (Bastone,
When the website suggested Frey owed it to his readers and Winfrey to address the issue, Frey responded “there’s nothing at this point that can come out of this conversation that is good for me” (Bastone, 2006). However, during the third interview, Frey finally admitted that he had embellished central details of his past. Frey went to the effort of getting court records purged in order to protect himself from the situation he found himself in. The Smoking Gun questioned why a man needed to protect himself after spending 430 pages writing about every grimy and repulsive detail of his former life. The answer to their question was later discovered in the basement of the Ohio police headquarters where Frey & Co. failed to purge the last remaining document that exposed the truth of Frey’s felonious spree. This thus led The Smoking Gun to discover the truth: Frey’s time in custody did not exceed beyond 5 hours (not 3 months as he had written) and he was released on a $733 cash bond. (Bastone, 2006). Although he would later write vividly about being consumed by an internal rage, Frey’s arrest was mundane – he was simply “a neatly dressed frat boy five months out of school and plastered on cheap beer” (Bastone,