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 ...

Human sexuality is a strange and wondrous thing, but you’d never guess that if your only knowledge of it came from the movies—Hollywood movies in particular. Unable to show much of what people ...

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 ...

Billie Piper may be heading to Hollywood, if The Sun is to be believed. In what seems to have been an actual interview, Piper told TV Biz that ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl is in the early stages ...

It’s the plot that launched A thousand pornos. A respectable housewife, trapped in a marriage that’s at a sexual standstill, spends her afternoons working in a brothel, fulfilling her fantasies while ...

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 ...

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 ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. For weeks the literary world has been kept guessing as to the identity of a prostitute whose ...