Divine Brown (sex worker)
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Divine Brown (born Estella Marie Thompson, 9 August 1969) is an American sex worker who gained considerable public recognition in 1995 when Hugh Grant, a British actor, was caught receiving oral sex from her in a car on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. Both Brown and Grant were arrested, and at first, considerable damage was done to Grant's public image. In the ensuing publicity, she appeared on a number of television shows, including The Howard Stern Show and Danny Bonaduce's short-lived Danny! In 1996, she played herself in a film based on the incident, Sunset and Divine: The British Experience by Ron Jeremy.[1] In all, she is reported to have earned $1.6 million from the publicity, though she was rearrested in Las Vegas in September 1996 for prostitution and loitering.[2] She made further appearances after her second arrest, on Joey Buttafuoco's cable access show in 1998 and on Judge Judy in 1999,[3] and on the Danish documentary series Negermagasinet in 2005. She was also the subject of an X-rated biopic Million Dollar Hooker in 2006,[4] and on Hollywood Lives, an ITV television series.[5]
Brown said the money she earned from interviews and endorsements after the infamous 1995 interrupted dalliance has allowed her to put her children through private school and buy a four-bedroom house.[6]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ "Nardwuar vs Ron Jeremy". Showbiz Tonight, transcript, February 6, 2007, CNN. Retrieved May 25, 2007.
- ^ Contemporary Criminal Law: Concepts, Cases, and Controversies by Matthew Ross Lippman
- ^ Divine Brown
- ^ 11-06 BOOK new
- ^ The $50 Trick (or how Divine Brown turned an encounter with Hugh Grant into her fortune) - Americas, World - Independent.co.uk
- ^ "Hugh's Divine intervention" from the Sydney Morning Herald
[edit] External links
- "The $50 Trick (or how Divine Brown turned an encounter with Hugh Grant into her fortune)", by Emily Dugan, 3 July 2007, The Independent. Retrieved July 3, 2007.
- Short biography at Rotten.com Retrieved May 25, 2007.
- Divine Brown at the Internet Movie Database Retrieved May 25, 2007.
- "Sunset and Divine: The British Experience (1996)" on IMDb. Retrieved May 25, 2007.
- "Divine Brown". Luke Ford on the filming of "Sunset and Divine". Retrieved May 25, 2007.
- "Vice girl turned millionairess Divine Brown can't thank Hugh enough"
