Brooke Magnanti

Quick Facts

Full Name	Brooke Magnanti
Occupation	Physician Writer
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1975(1975-11-05)
Age	49
Birthplace	New Port Richey
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Brooke Magnanti Biography

Brooke Magnanti is one of the most popular and richest Physician Writer who was born on November 5, 1975 in New Port Richey, United States. Magnanti’s pseudonym is derived from the book Belle de jour by Joseph Kessel and the film with the same title featuring Catherine Deneuve, directed by Luis Bunuel. The film’s title is “Belle de Jour” is a term that literally translates to “daytime beauty”, as Catherine Deneuve’s character ate at the brothel in the day even when her husband was away from her home. The phrase is a play of the French phrase “belle de nuit”, that translates to “lady of the night”, i.e. a prostitute.

Magnanti’s doctoral thesis, which was awarded by the University of Sheffield Department of Forensic Pathology The title was Macrobioinformatics The application of informatics tools to the documentation of human remains. It was presented in September 2003 and her degree was conferred in 2004. After the move to London and also blogging as Belle de Jour, she also worked as a cheminformatics computer programmer at InforSense. The blog she wrote about this job on Cosmas.

Magnanti worked for 14 months as a £300-an-hour prostitute called Taro for a London escort agency from 2003, after submitting her PhD thesis. She did so due to lack of funds before her viva voce at the University of Sheffield in 2003 and is estimated to have earned more than £100,000 in that period.

According to The Guardian a fellow British blogger guessed her identity in 2003 but kept it secret. He made a page on his blog containing the googlewhack of Belle de Jour and Brooke Magnanti that allowed him to see if anyone googled the two names. In 2009 he identified IP addresses originating from Associated Newspapers that had accessed the page at which point he contacted Magnanti to alert her. Around the same time tabloid reporters had been escorted from the hospital where she worked for breaking into her office.

She began her university studies at 16 years old, and graduated with an B.S. with a degree in the year 1996 at Florida State University. Moving into the United Kingdom, Magnanti studied for master’s degrees in genetic epidemiology and a Ph.D. for forensic sciences at in the University of Sheffield in England.

Brooke Magnanti Net Worth

Brooke Magnanti is one of the richest Physician Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brooke Magnanti 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Brooke Magnanti (born 5 November 1975) is an American born naturalised British researcher blogger, writer, and blogger who, up until her identity was discovered at the end of November, 2009 was referred to as an anonymous pen name Belle de Jour. When she was completing her doctoral degree between 2003 and 2004 Magnanti supplemented her earnings through her work as an London call-girl, who was known under the pseudonym Taro.

In the United States to an Italian American father and a Jewish American mother, Magnanti was raised within Clearwater, Florida. Magnanti graduated from the school that was private Clearwater Central Catholic High School which was where she was selected as an National Merit Scholar in 1992.

She had previously been a science blogger using her real name and started blogging about sex work under a pseudonym. Diary of a London Call Girl was voted Blog of the Year by The Guardian newspaper in 2003. Awards judge Bruce Sterling called it “Archly transgressive, anonymous hooker is definitely manipulating the blog medium, word by word, sentence by sentence far more effectively than any of her competitors … She is in a league by herself as a blogger.” Shortly after receiving the award she signed with literary agency Conville and Walsh who negotiated a publishing deal with Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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In 2007 Belle’s blogs and books were adapted into a television programme, Secret Diary of a Call Girl starring Billie Piper as Belle, with the real name Hannah Baxter. In November 2009, fearing her real identity was about to come out, Magnanti revealed her real name and occupation as a child health scientist.

Facts & Trivia

Brooke Ranked on the list of most popular Physician Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Brooke Magnanti celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

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