Author Gay Talese has denounced his upcoming book, “The Voyeur’s Motel,” due to what he considers a credibility crisis.
The book chronicles the strange story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
But Talese says he began to doubt Foos after property records revealed that he sold the motel, located in Aurora, Colorado, in 1980 and didn’t reacquire it until eight years later, the Washington Post reported. The time gap raised questions as to whether Foos told the truth about other key facts.
“I should not have believed a word he said,” Talese, 84, told the Post after the paper divulged details of the property records.