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The famous British prostitute who's really just a nice Jewish girl
By www.jewishjournal.com
Tags: Israel news, Belle du Jour 

It's official, the mysterious English prostitute Belle du Jour is Jewish? and somehow the real life woman, a cancer researcher named Brooke Magnanti, credits (is that the word?) her Jewish background for leading her to become a high-priced call girl.

This from The Daily Mail:

In a newspaper interview she offered a particularly tasteless explanation for this bizarre impulse: 'I have a pathological aversion to being in debt.
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'My mother?s family are Jewish; there's this hoarding thing, saving, being prepared - if you're in debt, somebody could come and knock on your door and take it all away tomorrow.'

That explanation sent columnists in a stammering outrage. Where to take umbrage first: at the ethnic stereotype? At the leap from debt to paid sex? At the idea of a smart woman taking life-threatening risks?

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