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Sufiah Yusof’s husband speaks
(Telegraph) The story of the ‘prodigy gone wrong’ is always a subject for grim and envious fascination — obsessed parents, hothousing, weird childhood undergraduate career, dysfunctional later life — but the tale of Sufiah Yusof is even more bizarre.
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(Guardian) Sarfraz Manzoor (‘Greetings From Bury Park’): On her first day of uni, Rumi (‘Gifted’) stares at herself in the mirror and begins to curse, because she can. Like the real-life Sufiah Yusof, a showdown with her parents is inevitable.
‘Gifted’ may be based on prodigy-prostitute
(NYT) Sufiah Yusof’s dad kept the house cold to sharpen concentration and banned American sitcoms and soaps. She started wearing a hijab and going to communist party meetings. Nikita Lalwani’s ‘Gifted’ seems based on her story. (ht: Bobby)
How prodigy became prostitute
(Tabloid) Sufiah Yusof’s father Farooq Khan admitted groping two 15-year-old girls whom he tutored in math. Yusof, a former child prodigy, allegedly works as a prostitute.
Child math prodigy working as hooker
(Telegraph) Female math prodigy Sufiah Yusof, 23, who was admitted to Oxford at 15, ran away from her controlling father and allegedly works as a prostitute in Manchester under the pseudonym Shilpa Lee. [via]