{"id":16720,"date":"2009-11-15T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=16720"},"modified":"2009-11-15T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:29:19","slug":"the-real-belle-de-jour-stands-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-real-belle-de-jour-stands-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The real Belle de Jour stands up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/belledejour.jpg\" alt=\"belledejour\" title=\"belledejour\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/belledejour.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/belledejour-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/blog\/2005\/apr\/11\/willtherealb\">years of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timemachinego.com\/linkmachinego\/belle-de-jour-identified-as-male-london-novelist-stewart-home\/\">speculation<\/a>, Belle de Jour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/nov\/15\/belle-de-jour-author-blogger-brooke-magnanti\">reveals herself<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when a 34-year-old research scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced that she was the writer better known as call girl <a href=\"http:\/\/belledejour-uk.blogspot.com\/\">Belle de Jour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author behind the blog turned bestselling series of books detailing her secret life as a prostitute decided to come out to one of her fiercest critics, the Sunday Times columnist India Knight, after claiming anonymity had become &#8220;no fun&#8221;. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t even go to my own book launch party,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>It does appear, however, that Magnanti&#8217;s hand was forced after a former boyfriend appeared set to reveal her secret: <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article6917495.ece\">Knight&#8217;s interview with her today<\/a> refers to &#8220;an ex-boyfriend with a big mouth lurking in the background&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Magnanti says on <a href=\"http:\/\/belledejour-uk.blogspot.com\/2009_11_01_archive.html#6790036648614888652\">her blog<\/a> that <i>&#8220;I am a woman. I lived in London. I was a call girl. The people, the places, the actions and feelings are as true now as they were then, and I stand behind every word with pride.&#8221;<\/i> Bit of an anti-climax, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of speculation, Belle de Jour reveals herself: One of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when a 34-year-old research scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced that she was the writer better known as call girl Belle de Jour. The author behind the blog turned bestselling series of books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}