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It turns out the people behind the wildly popular website lonelygirl15 are not studio executives, Internet moguls or, as some suspected, Satanists. Instead, they are aspiring filmmakers who met at a mutual friend's birthday party in April: Miles Beckett, 28, a Web-obsessed medical school dropout; Mesh Flinders, 26, a screenwriter; and Greg Goodfried, a 27-year-old lawyer.

For the last few months, Jessica Rose only dared leave her house in a huge floppy hat and sunglasses, "pretending I'm Madonna," she said. She was afraid she'd be recognized, her real identity revealed and the lonelygirl15 Web-mystery project ruined.