She is the infamous high-class call girl whose explicit blogs detailed sex with rich clients and her exciting, stiletto-clad life in London. The adventures of Belle de Jour spawned two bestselling ...

So Belle de Jour was real after all. The Internet’s most famous anonymous sex blogger – turned best-selling author – turned internationally successful TV series – has finally outed herself in the UK’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unmasking of Belle de Jour makes us think of a litany of brilliant courtesans, writes Clive James in his weekly column. For several years, the true identity of Belle de Jour, author of a blog ...

Most women would expect a negative response from their mothers after revealing they were previously a £300-an-hour prostitute and were about to be outed in the media. But when Dr Brooke Magnanti, 40, ...

The masterpiece Belle de Jour directed by Luis Buñuel turns 50, just like the style of Catherine Deneuve in the role of Séverine. The film explores the dichotomy between the repression and impulses of ...

A former prostitute whose memoirs were turned into the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, starring Billie Piper, has revealed her true identity. Dr Brooke Magnanti wrote under the pen name Belle ...

The French term for a lady of the night is "Belle de Nuit”. For Séverine, the heroine of Luis Buñuel’s 1967 erotic reverie Belle de Jour, this career is a temptation, but not really an option: she is ...

Immortalized by Catherine Deneuve in 'Belle de Jour' and reimagined for its 60th anniversary, the shoe still captures the ...