We now know that many of the most memorable scenes that Frey wrote about likely never occurred. On Sunday, the Smoking Gun posted a 13,000-word, meticulously reported investigation into Frey's best-selling memoir, which was chosen last year as a selection for Oprah's Book Club. Many of the verifiable incidents in the book, the Smoking Gun found, had been fabricated. Frey, the voluble teenage outcast mothers warned their children about, was actually, according to a high-school classmate, a "normal" guy who played soccer. A teenage incident that Frey describes thusly—"Got first DUI. Blew a .36, and set a County Record. Went to Jail for a week"—was actually an instance where he blew approximately half that, was fined $305, and was quickly sent home because he had the chicken pox. A college drug-selling scheme that Frey says brought him to the attention of the FBI was, in reality, a situation in which some of Frey's frat brothers in Denison College's Sigma Alpha Epsilon got nicked for selling dime bags of weed. One of the central incidents in the book, in which Frey was arrested for "Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assaulting an Officer of the Law, Felony DUI, Disturbing the Peace, Resisting Arrest, Driving Without a License, Driving Without Insurance, Attempted Incitement of a Riot, Possession of a Narcotic with Intent to Distribute, and Felony Mayhem" was actually, the Smoking Gun reports, an incident in which Frey was issued two traffic tickets—one for driving under the influence and one for driving without a license—along with a misdemeanor summons for having an open container of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the car. The threat of three years in prison (later lowered to the three months that Frey wrote about serving) along with a $15,000 fine and 1,000 hours of community service was actually nothing more than a $733 cash bond. There was no time behind bars.