# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carol-leigh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:47:05.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carol-leigh"
name: "Carol Leigh"
slug: "carol-leigh"
description: "Carol Leigh, also known as The Scarlot Harlot, was an American artist, author, filmmaker, sex worker, and sex workers' rights activist. She is credited with coining the term sex work and founded the Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival and was the co-founder of BAYSWAN, the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network."
tagline: "American artist and activist and sex workers' rights activist (1951–2022)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-01-11"
deathDate: "2022-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.50529466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1354003/"
    handle:    "nm1354003"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://scarlotharlot.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "كارول لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "کارول لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "キャロル・リー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D1%96"
    title: "Керол Лі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2939842"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/168103"
    title: "Carol Leigh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump