paul noah benton was born on september 7th in london, england, uk, to mark and beatrice benton. he also has a sister, paula benton. paul was considered extremely smart from a young age, and went to a school for gifted children. when he graduated, he went to oxford university, majoring in english and minoring in communications. he wrote and published his first book around this time. he met paige when he was 22, and they started dating. paul was deeply in denial of his queerness due to his parents being catholic and only teaching him about queerness in a negative context. around the end of their relationship, paul cheated on paige with a man named joseph. after he and paige broke up, he stayed with joseph, and they continued their relationship into present day. shortly after breaking up with paige, paul released a book full of plagarism, including plagarising unreleased songs from paige. fans noticed this, and paul's book was flooded with negative reviews from them, as well as other people who had noticed other plagarism. paul had plagarized in his first book as well, but it wasnt caught by many people since he had stolen from smaller authors. those who did point out the plagarism were shut down by fans of paul's work immediately. after this, paul started writing under a pen name, johnathan remington III, deleted his twitter, and took his book down from all websites. joseph left him after the plagarism controversy.