Edgers on How Eakin Got the True Story

In a letter responding to a query from Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe, reporter Hugh Eakin describes the genesis of his New Yorker story on the Getty Museum’s former antiquities curator, Marion True, showing some sympathy for her plight.
Edgers posts Eakin’s comments today on the Boston Globe’s Exhibitionist blog. Here’s how Eakin regards True:
Here is a woman with strong convictions, who believed in what she was doing, who worked extremely hard for her institution. And her reputation, her career, the life she had has been totally destroyed….She has long ago been convicted by the press. And the Italians are saying now that the case isn’t really about her anyway, that she was just a convenient way to go after museums. And there are a lot of questions we can ask about this.
Perhaps he can write a follow-up asking (and maybe even answering) a few of those questions.