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A Duke freshman couldn't afford $60,000 a year in tuition. So she started doing porn. Then a classmate recognized her. In 2013, Miriam Weeks was 18. Her parents covered the first month or two. After that, tuition cost about $4,300 a month. In the video below, she explains why her family couldn't afford it: "On paper we make so much money that we're not eligible for all these benefits. But in reality our families can't pay $60,000 in tuition each year." The only loans available to her carried 11% interest. Her parents would have had to co-sign. As a waitress, she says, she earned less than $400 a month. Her first adult film scene paid about $1,200. "I've made between 25 and 30 videos, and at the rate I'm going, I've made enough to pay for a year." In January 2014, a fellow Duke student identified her to his fraternity brothers. Her identity spread quickly, and she began receiving death threats. "At first it was so bad that I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning. I literally just wanted to pack up my bags, cry and go home." She later appeared on The View, CNN and in Rolling Stone. Lifetime eventually made a movie about her story. Her father had a different reaction: "My dad is purely just angry that I've ruined porn for him." Weeks says she left the industry in late 2015 and stopped discussing the experience. Was adult entertainment her only realistic way to stay at Duke, or did the cost come at too high a price? Follow for more stories behind the world’s richest people

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