But there's little doubt it's her: In both the book and the hit show Orange Is the New Black, the central character ... that same villain goes by the name Alex Vause. Now Wolters, 52, is telling ...

spent a year locked up before writing about the experience in her memoir Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women’s Prison. So where does real-life Alex - played by Laura Prepon - come into this?

Orange Is The New Black became a phenomenon the moment it hit Netflix, but the real story behind the prison series is hardly discussed as much as the the lives of the fictional Piper, Alex ...

Laura Prepon's character Alex Vause in 'Orange Is the New Black' is based on the real-life Cleary Wolters, who has written a memoir. Laura Prepon's character Alex Vause in 'Orange Is the New Black ...

Alex Vause (whose name is Catherine Clearly Wolters in real life). Kerman spent 13 months in Danbury Correctional Institution, while Wolters was either locked up or on parole for around 20 years ...

Orange Is the New Black star Laura Prepon wouldn't know ... who wrote the memoir on which the show is based, about the real-life person Alex is based on? Or is she more of your own creation?

By Jackie Strause Managing Editor, East Coast [Warning: This story contains spoilers from the first eight episodes of Orange Is the New Black season ... The trauma, and Alex’s subsequent ...

Here's something (or someone) nobody really talks about enough: The real-life Alex from Orange Is the New Black. She exists. Piper Kerman (author of the memoir off which Netflix's OITNB is based ...

Orange Is the New Black' star Laura Prepon weighs in on ... Piper Kerman was there that day and Larry [Smith] — the real Piper and “Alex” are sitting to our left in that visitation scene.

Spoilers ahead for the series finale of Orange is the New Black. If you haven’t finished Season 7, don’t read on! Season 7’s finale saw the two inmates seemingly break up, as Alex was ...

Warning: this post contains spoilers for how Orange Is the New Black's seventh season ends. The season kicks off with some beef with Badison (Amanda Fuller), Alex's former foe from season six.

And besides, what Catherine Cleary Wolters – the real Alex Vause — is saying about what Orange Is the New Black got right and wrong paints the kind of compelling picture that only real-life-vs.- ...