... revealed her true identity in 2009 as Dr. Brooke Magnanti (Florida–born, naturalised British in 2013), who had worked as a call girl by the name of Taro, while also working as a computer programmer, after qualifying for a PhD in forensic pathology at Sheffield University. The pseudonym was the title of a 1928 novel by the French author Joeph Kessel, which was adapted for a 1967 film starring Catherine Deneuve
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