The famous British prostitute who's really just a nice Jewish girl
Belle du Jour's identity has been revealed as cancer researcher Brooke Magnati - and the columnists are going mad.
By www.jewishjournal.com Tags: Jewish World Israel newsIt'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.
'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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I see nothing wrong with her choices. She made the choice that was right for her. One should be careful about making too much of a fuss lest they have their names in her little black book. More power to you sweetheart.