World’s smartest hooker

When you’re let’s say a governor surfing the web and looking for a professional woman there are many things to consider in finding the right vendor. You can go on looks, personality, physical features, but what about brains? Admitted to Oxford University at the age of 13 Sufiah Yusof is now available for about $260 bucks.

Some child prodigies wind up dysfunctional but the child genius has become something of an internet celebrity. Sufiah Yusof was a Math prodigy and became the youngest accepted to Oxford at age 13. A decade after hitting the headlines thanks to her remarkable aptitude for mathematics – and days after her father was jailed for sexually assaulting two teenagers – Miss Yusof has been exposed as a $260 dollar an hour prostitute. The revelation completes a sad fall from grace for the family who were hailed the brightest in Britain after Miss Yusof and two of her siblings won university places by the time they were 16. Calling herself Shilpa Lee, 23-year-old Miss Yusof advertises her body on an internet sex site and operates out of a back street flat in Salford.

The Malaysian girl who was raised in a very strict Muslim family had problems at Oxford and wound up never graduating. She went missing before her exams in her third year at Oxford and although she returned she never graduated.

Sufiah completed her course but failed to take her final exams, ostensibly because of her health. When Mr Marshall secured a job with one of the ‘magic circle’ law firms the couple moved to London and then, briefly to Singapore.

She married at age 19 and divorced at age 20. Now at 23, she made her living as a solo operator call girl, hooking up at $260 per half hour. SHILPA carried 3 cell phones to take calls. On the hooking website that offers her services, she describes herself as On the website, she describes herself as a ‘”very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5ft 5in tall – available for booking every day from 11am to 8pm“. In 2004, she married trainee lawyer Jonathan Marshall, but the couple divorced 13 months later.

Speaking yesterday from Saudi Arabia, where he works for a leading firm of City solicitors, Mr Marshall explained: “The reason we split was that I became more observant and Sufiah became less so.

“That took her in the wrong direction, away from the direction in which I wanted to go. The teachings of Islam are fundamental to your everyday life, so when paths diverge in that respect it is a major issue.

“She was confused, really. She didn’t know quite what she wanted. She wasn’t ready to settle down. Basically, she wanted to be a student.

“She wasn’t particularly extrovert. She wasn’t a difficult person to live with. We simply had different goals, different ideas of where we wanted to be. There were, to my knowledge, no affairs or anything. I never considered such a thing, simply because of the religious basis of our marriage.”

Mr Marshall said there was little contact between Sufiah and her family in her final year at Oxford but some bridges were mended when they attended the couple’s Islamic wedding ceremony.

He did not gain the impression during the marriage that Sufiah had been subjected to physical abuse by her father as a child. Psychological abuse was another matter.

Sufiah completed her course but failed to take her final exams, ostensibly because of her health. When Mr Marshall secured a job with one of the ‘magic circle’ law firms the couple moved to London and then, briefly to Singapore.

It was there that they decided to split. On returning to London, Sufiah was admitted to London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) to read economics.

Despite their split in August 2005, Mr Marshall supported her for eight months before taking up a job with his firm in Saudi Arabia. He has remarried and has two children.

“We agreed that I would assist her for a specific time. I felt a moral obligation to help her out while she was still at university. She wanted to concentrate on university and I agreed she should.”

In January, a British newspaper, the Daily Mail revealed that her father Farooq had been remanded in custody after admitting sexually assaulting two girls, both aged 15.

Appearing under his real surname of Khan, he was jailed for 18 months at Coventry Crown Court last week after a judge heard how he had groped the two girls when he was home tutoring them at maths. He had previously been jailed for three years in 1992 for his part in a £1.5million mortgage swindle involving several family members.

Yesterday, the News of the World described how Miss Yusof was armed with three mobile phones as she welcomed an undercover reporter who was posing as a client at her flat. The once strict Muslim stripped out of her tiny skirt, leather boots, tight T- shirt and red matching underwear as she detailed her $260 dollar-an-hour rate.

Yet, if Sufiah Yusof is to be believed, she has not yet abandoned her academic career – she told the News of the World’s undercover reporter that she was studying for a master’s degree in economics and had her exams coming up. Even now, she still has something to prove.

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