fictionalized
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Cipriani has fictionalized the two men’s dealings, then spread “false and salacious lies to extract a massive payday.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
A fictionalized one that draws from real newspaper clippings, Marilyn’s own writings and interviews with her friends.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
“Hamnet,” from director Chloé Zhao, spins a family’s brutal loss into a fictionalized origin story for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Most of us will recognize the fictionalized version of Boesky, Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street,” telling us that greed is good.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025
And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
