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Lucien Freud's sleeping nude 'paid £20'

Lucian Freud's one-time muse was paid £20 a day to sit for a painting expected to fetch more than £17m.
But Londoner Sue Tilley said she did not do it for the money and had "lovely lunches" with the artist.
Freud's 1995 work, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, looks set to become the most expensive painting by a living artist when it is sold in New York next month.
Ms Tilley - who is now a job centre manager - joked she had now become a broadsheet pin-up.
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