Virginia Heffernan of the NY Times, who did as much as anyone to publicize and stoke the LonelyGirl15 hype, publishes a
detailed story on Jessica Rose -- if that really is her name -- including the pathetic detail that once the hoax began to unravel, one of the men behind the hoax "offered his photographs of Ms. Rose
as proof of his involvement in the Lonelygirl15 videos."
Because, you know, that's probably the most successful thing he'll ever do. That would be "Grant Steinfeld, a software engineer in San Francisco":
And
he's got a blog, though it is limited entirely to photographs of swimmers, none of which seem to be J. Rose.
The other bizarre detail is that one of the other men -- of course you knew it had to be
middle-aged* men behind the whole thing, not a teenage girl or any females whatsoever -- is supposedly named Ramesh Flinders, which sounds like nothing so much as one of those names in my GMail spambox.
*
Update: The
LA Times story has all the men as being in their mid-twenties -- except Steinfeld, whom it doesn't mention at all, despite having more details than the NYT story.
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