I searched somthing on google..."What is the real Billie Holiday story?" And this came up. Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, and grew up in Baltimore. When she was ten years old, she was raped by an adult neighbor. The man was arrested—but Holiday was sent to a reformatory. When she reunited with her mother, Sadie Gough, in Harlem, where Gough was doing sex work, Billie was forced into prostitution.