The , who says she was being home schooled by her religious parents, became one of the internet's first video-sharing soap operas. She told how the internet was her only outlet under the roof of her strict parents.
However, many who watched the videos, posted on video-sharing site , also suspected it was a fake and this week US blogging site Silicon Valley Watcher confirmed their scepticism.
The blogging site, which has beat a number of bloggers and amateur internet investigators into uncovering the mystery of Lonelygirl15, revealed that the video diary was in fact posted by a group of film makers in California, who skilfully used the video-sharing boom to promote an early version of a script that they hope to turn into a full-length movie.
The mystery was uncovered after Silicon Valley Watcher reporter Tom Foremski's 18- year-old son Matt noticed a similarity between Bree and an actress, who has now been identified as a 20-something New Zealand graduate of the New York Film Academy called Jessica Rose.
The team behind the project, including film-makers Ramesh Flinders and Miles Beckett, also had assistance from Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, which now represents them.
According to a latest posting by Foremski: "We're lucky to break the story of the identity of LonelyGirl15 before others. We were fortunate, thanks to the work of my son, Matt Foremski, to connect the dots ahead of others, maybe by just a few hours."
This is just the latest attempt by filmmakers and studios to use the internet to create a hype around a movie project. One of the first films to do this was 1999 horror film 'The Blair Witch Project', which generated a buzz through teaser clips and inspired more than 20 fan sites even before it had opened.
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