Today's weird writer story

“The novelist DBC Pierre, the smart bet for next week’s Man Booker Prize, “last night confessed to betraying and fleecing his friends in a manner that even Byron would have blanched at.

“The reformed drug addict and gambler admitted to selling his best friend’s home and pocketing the proceeds as well as working up debts of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a scheme to find Montezuma’s gold in Mexico. ”