Norma Khouri, who wrote and published a book that turned out to be a pack of lies, is to be the subject of a film, reports The Australian.

Published in 2003, Forbidden Love eventually sold 500,000 copies and Khouri, when the story broke, was tracked down to a luxurious waterfront home in Queensland. Malcolm Knox, then literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, flew to Chicago to find out more about her. And he did. I don't recall all the details, but the story was pretty sordid.

Now, Sydney-based filmmaker Anna Broinowski, who has made a few controversial pictures in the past, will release Forbidden Lie$, which features Khouri.

Khouri emerges from the film as a shocking liar, a wonderful actor and something of a modern-day siren, able to lure men if not to their deaths, then certainly to their financial ruin with her seductive ways.