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I don't have a direct translation of the article, but it seems to follow the questions they asked me and the answers I supplied:

Q: How many  people are there in the fake detective or is it just you?

A: There’s just me.  Sometimes I call myself by other names: I call
myself  "Dr. Caesar Backside" when I want to be The Fake Detective’s
assistant.  I call myself "Honest John" when I want to discuss technical
problems or post real pictures for some reason.  (If I post real
pictures as The Fake Detective, a lot of people will wonder if the
picture is a fake.)

 Q: What it is you do?

A: I have become the world’s expert on which celebrity pictures are real
and which are fakes.  I collect REAL pictures, and it is only when
someone tries to pass off a fake picture as being real that I become
involved.   I am like an art expert.  People ask me if pictures are
real.  When I first started, most people asked me about fakes.  But
recently more people have been asking me if real pictures are real.

 Q: Why you do it?

A: I started it just for fun.  I went looking around the Internet for
pictures of my favorite actors and actresses because I wanted to have
the pictures in front of me as I wrote screenplays for them.  (I haven’t
sold any of my screenplays, and I thought that if I wrote with a
specific actor or actress in mind it would help me to write better and
to sell something.)

Q: Why you started?

A: As I was building a small collection of pictures I found some nude
pictures of Gillian Anderson (of "The X-Files") that were suspicious.
I found them on a newsgroup where pictures of celebrities were
exchanged, and there was a big debate underway about whether the
pictures were real or not.  I decided to find out.  I looked around and
finally found the head shot that was used.  Then I had to figure out
what to do next.  Most people would just stop there, because they know
the answer.  But I wanted to tell everyone on the Internet that the
pictures were fakes - because I didn’t want them to think that Gillian
Anderson posed that way.  So, I decided to have some fun.  I created The
Fake Detective and created a graphic that showed the real picture side
by side with the fake; I had The Fake Detective’s "assistant" Dr. Caesar
Backside write some text about the fake, and I posted the results on
some celebrity newsgroups.  After a few months I had done this to about
30 fakes and someone in Canada created a web site that showed all my
work: http://www.lairofluxlucre.com/detective/  At first I was upset and
worried about my copyrights, but I communicated with the person in
Canada ("Lux Lucre") and we worked out an arrangement.   About 5 months
after I started, I was contacted by Fox TV news and asked to do my first
TV interview.  About that same time I got an e-mail address for The Fake
Detective so people could ask me questions if they wanted.  And thing
just kept growing from there.

Q:  When you started?

A:  The Fake Detective first appeared on the Internet on December 20,
1996.  I’d been playing around for two months prior to that, but my work
was not being sent out over the Internet because my ISP had technical
problems.  My first TV interview was on April 30, 1997.

Q: What are the things to look for in a fake?

A: I don’t really pay much attention to fakes.  I collect REAL
pictures.  Because I collect REAL pictures, I know what an actress will
pose for and what they won’t pose for.  So, when I find a picture that
shows the actress posing in a way that I’ve never seen before, I become
suspicious.  I then start looking for signs of fakery.  I look for
lighting that comes from one direction on the face and from another
direction on the body.  I look for signs that the hair doesn’t match the
background.  And if I find a reason to think the picture is a fake, I
start looking for the matching head shot.

There are over 100,000 fakes in circulation on the Internet, and I can’t
possibly expose them all.  I don’t expose pornographic fakes (which are
the majority) because celebrities do not pose for pornography and
everyone should realize that.  I try to avoid exposing fakes by
well-known fakers.  Some fakers have created many hundreds of fakes, and
I try to just make people aware of their signatures so they can figure
out if they are fakes without having to ask me.

Q: Do you make fakes yourself?

A: When I first started out I made a few fakes because I wanted to have
all three components to show how a fake is made: (1) The head shot, (2)
the body shot and (3) the final fake.  With all the case files I was
exposing in my early days, all I had was the fake and the head shot.  I
didn’t have any body shots and had no way to find the body shots.  So, I
wanted to show all three components.  And, too, I wanted to see how it
was done.  I wanted to become more of an expert, so I created about 50
fakes.  I exposed about 30 of them - ending with Case #50.  Later I did
one more as a gag for Case #100.

Q: Who are the most faked celebs?

A:  It seems to change from time to time as new celebrities become
known, but this is my best guess:

1.Gillian Anderson
2. Melissa Joan Hart
3. Sarah Michelle Gellar
4. Christina Applegate
5. Sandra Bullock
 6. Alicia Silverstone
 7. Jennifer Love Hewitt
 8: Jennifer Aniston
 9: Britney Spears
10. Shania Twain

Q: Are the fakes getting better over the years?

A: Definitely.  Many fakes are so good that there’s no way to tell that
they are fakes except by the fact that the faker signed the fake with
his signature - and by finding the matching head shot or body shot.

Q: What is the most difficult fake you ever had?(Why)

A:  It depends upon what you mean.  My most difficult case involving a
fake was probably Case #200.  It took over a year before someone found
the source of the picture and sent me the magazine.  It’s a fake that
was created many years ago with airbrush techniques.  It’s a painting,
not a photograph.

But I also had a difficult case that people still argue about.  The
people of Malaysia asked me about  some pictures of a very popular pair
of rock stars. The Malay government, Malay experts and the Malay media
were saying the pictures were fakes.  The rock stars were saying the
same thing.  But it was clear to me that the 11 pictures were real. They
were direct from a digital camera and the camera data was still part of
the file information and could be viewed if you knew how.  I didn’t make
a case file of this because the pictures were NOT fakes, but I created a
web page for the Malays who asked my opinion.  It’s located here:
http://extra.newsguy.com/~detect/KRU.htm  That was over a year ago, and
I still get a lot of hate mail from Malays who think the pictures are
fakes and that Muslims would never pose for such pictures, and I get
praise from people who realize the pictures are real, and I get
questions from people who are still uncertain.

Q: Hve you ever been wrong about a picture?(called it an fake when it
was a original? )

A:  Yes.  I thought the picture of Tea Leoni that showed her nipple
(Case #109) was a fake and he real picture showed no nipple.  But I soon
learned that the real picture showed the nipple, and the magazine that
printed it just wiped out the nipple to make it more acceptable to show
on their cover.  So, I had to reverse my decision.  I also thought some
pictures of Mel Harris were really pictures of Christina Ferrare.  I was
wrong.  The pictures really were of Mel Harris.  Case #131 is the only
case I had to withdraw totally.

Q: What ere the criteria for you to make a case about an fake?

A:  Now that I have a collection of 269 cases, plus 18 Eye Test Charts,
the biggest criteria is: Is it fooling a large number of people?
Second: Would it be an interesting and different case?  Third: Is it a
fake of someone I haven’t done a case file about before?

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