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LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - A former prostitute whose memoirs were turned into the TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" has revealed her true identity -- Brooke Magnanti, a British research ...

Belle de Jour unveils her true identity as a highly regarded scientist. LONDON Nov. 16, 2009 — -- The most celebrated high class hooker in the world has revealed herself to be a high class cancer ...

In 1928, the novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel shocked bourgeois France. The story of Sévèrine, a happily married well-to-do woman who lives out her sexual fantasies by prostituting herself in a ...

For six years, her identity remained a closely guarded secret: a tantalising mystery for all those hooked on the stockings-and-stilettos tales of high-class call girl Belle de Jour. A male fantasy ...

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Belle de Jour's estranged father broke down in tears last night as he revealed he had used more than 150 prostitutes himself - and had introduced his daughter to some of them. Paul Magnanti was ...