"the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code"
You mean the apostle John, right? No one in the know ever said it was anyone other than an effeminate-looking John until the "Priory" myth was conceived later on, which Dan Brown capitalized heavily on -- a full decade after Pierre Plantard himself admitted it was a complete fraud.
Unfortunately the post falls for the old Chevy No Va urban legend, and I'm pretty sure they haven't checked sources thoroughly for the other stuff either.
You mean the apostle John, right? No one in the know ever said it was anyone other than an effeminate-looking John until the "Priory" myth was conceived later on, which Dan Brown capitalized heavily on -- a full decade after Pierre Plantard himself admitted it was a complete fraud.