"it was kind of neutral."" In 2007, Thompson said she had separated from Brown, although they were still friends. She said she had a new fiancé and was pursuing a music career. Estella Marie Thompson Estella Marie Thompson (born August 9, 1969), also known as Divine Brown, is an American former prostitute who gained public attention in 1995 when actor Hugh Grant was caught receiving oral sex from her in his car on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. Thompson has remained in the public eye since then through work in pornography, television appearances and newspaper interviews. Thompson grew up in poverty in"
"pay a $133 electricity bill. Going to Union Square in San Francisco one night, she earned $1,000 in five hours: ""I just wanted the best for my children and I didn't want them to struggle as hard as I had, so I did what I had to do. I wanted to make money, you know, do the right thing ... go home and raise my children and just have a good life, a good quiet positive life."" On June 27, 1995, Thompson and British actor Hugh Grant were arrested together in Los Angeles; Thompson was performing oral sex on the"
"Shauna Grant Colleen Marie Applegate, known by her stage name Shauna Grant (May 30, 1963 – March 23, 1984), was an American nude model and pornographic performer. She ran away from her small town in Minnesota and proceeded to appear in over 30 pornographic films, earning up to $100,000 in her two-year career. Grant killed herself after the arrest of her partner in March, 1984. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999. She was sometimes credited as Callie Aimes, Callie Aims, or Colleen Applegate. Born in Bellflower, California, Colleen Applegate grew up in the small town"
"""Bedazzled"" (2000). In 2015, Hurley began starring in the E! original series ""The Royals"". In the 1990s, Hurley became known as the girlfriend of Hugh Grant. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of international media attention due to the success of his film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los Angeles premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention. Elizabeth Hurley was born on 10 June 1965 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary (née Titt) and Roy Leonard Hurley."
"Avenue to Havenhurst Avenue. The Sunset Strip portion of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has been famous for its active nightlife since at least the 1950s. In the 1970s, the area between Gardner Street and Western Avenue was a center for street prostitution. Shortly after a well-publicized June 1995 incident, police raids drove out the majority of prostitutes on the Boulevard. Part of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is also sometimes called ""Guitar Row"" due to the large number of guitar stores and music industry-related businesses, including the recording studios Sunset Sound Studios and United Western Recorders. The portion of Sunset"
"Marcell refused to speak to the show's reporter about his relationship with Applegate, except to say that he no longer cared about her. Ignoring Hicks's advice, Applegate continued working with World Modeling Agency, where she met veteran porn producer Bobby Hollander. Hollander launched her adult film career, suggesting what he felt was a ""classy"" stage name, Shauna Grant. As a fast-rising adult entertainment personality, she was featured in ""Virginia"", ""Suzie Superstar"", and ""Flesh and Laces 1 & 2"", among many other films. Her pay rose from $300 a day to nearly $1,500. As Shauna Grant, she made dozens of popular"
"Driving Me Crazy, Pink Orgasm), scenes from a hardcore videotape called Miss Deep Fantasy (a.k.a. Miss UK Fantasy) and the Bob Godfrey sextoon ‘A Woman’s Best Friend’, among others. A resident of Turkish Cyprus for most of the 1980s, he left the island under a dark cloud in 1988, following a street brawl with a love rival. The Sun newspaper reported Grant ""battered Briton Clive Godden, his girlfriend's husband, on the head with a spade, causing serious injuries"". Both The Sun and the Slough Observer also alleged that Grant had been a drug dealer, and had also “corrupted thousands of"
"""Hard Feelings"" in 2000, ""Summer of '42"" in 2001, ""Radiant Baby"" in 2003, ""The Beard of Avon"" in 2003, ""Between Us"" in 2004, and ""The Marriage of Bette and Boo"" by Christopher Durang in 2008. Grant appeared on Broadway in ""An American Daughter"" as ""Quincy Quince"", and in ""Proof"" as ""Claire"", from July 2, 2002 - January 5, 2003, both as replacements. She appeared in ""Guys and Dolls"" in 2009 as ""Sarah Brown"", ""The Lyons"" in 2012, ""The Country House"" in 2014, and ""Noises Off"" officially opening in January 2016. On television, Grant has guest starred on ""Sex and the"
"beaten by six LAPD police officers. The incident sparked tensions in LA that eventually led to the 1992 LA Riots. When Pip is tackled later, the commentator states that he has not seen an Englishman take a blow like that since Hugh Grant. This references Grant's arrest in June 1995, when he was caught performing a lewd act in public with a Hollywood prostitute. Grant was fined $1,180, placed on probation for two years, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program. The announcer makes an incomplete remark about a tackle, ""I haven't seen so many children molested since...""."
"Grant began an affair with Sophia Loren while filming ""The Pride and the Passion"" (1957). Grant arranged for Loren to take Drake's place in ""Houseboat"", with a rewritten script for which Drake did not receive credit. The affair ended in bitterness before ""The Pride and the Passion""s filming ended, causing problems on the ""Houseboat"" set. Grant and Drake separated in 1958, remaining friends, and divorced in 1962. Their marriage constituted his longest union. Grant credited her with broadening his interests beyond his career and with introducing him to the then-legal LSD therapy, which he claimed helped him finally to achieve"
"being ordered to attend an AIDS class and perform five days of community service, she was fined $1,150 for parole violations and sentenced to 180 days in jail. Hugh Grant pleaded no contest and was fined $1,180, placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program. In September 1996, Thompson was arrested at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Paradise after flirting and making suggestive comments to undercover police officers. A police officer involved in the operation was quoted as saying, ""She didn't actually solicit, but the police officers knew what she was up"
"and that of O'Grady's wife were discovered by the ""Daily Mirror"" tabloid, who treated them as a headline scandal in autumn 1994. Critical of the media, O'Grady condemned them for solely referring to him as a drag queen; he commented that ""Barry Humphries is never called a drag act because he's a heterosexual male. But I'm called one because I'm a gay man. It's homophobic and it's wrong as there is nothing remotely sexual about what I do. I dress up as a woman for financial purposes, nothing else."" In April 1996, O'Grady filmed a performance at the LWT Tower"
"actor in his car at the time. Grant had flashed the lights of his BMW at her, and she had gone into a side street to meet with him. Thompson's charge for going to her hotel room was $100; Grant only had $60 on him, so they agreed she would perform her service in the car. According to Thompson, the attention of a policeman was alerted by Grant repeatedly pressing the brake pedal of his BMW with his foot, causing the brake lights to flash. Charged with lewd conduct, she pleaded no contest on September 6, 1995. In addition to"
"In the immediate aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the paper showed a fireman carrying the body of a young girl under the headline ""IN THE NAME OF ALLAH"", which proved embarrassing when it was found that the bombing had been perpetrated by survivalists, not Muslim terrorists. Again, the paper did not publish a correction. In 1996, Hugh Grant won damages from News (UK) Ltd over what his lawyers called a ""highly defamatory"" article in January 1995. The newspaper had falsely claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a ""foul-mouthed tongue lashing"" on the set of ""The"
"this profile. It was amazing."" Moore's next appearance was a supporting role in the comedy-drama ""Roommates"" (1995), playing the daughter-in-law of Peter Falk. Her following film, ""Nine Months"" (1995), was crucial in establishing her as a leading lady in Hollywood. The romantic comedy, directed by Chris Columbus and co-starring Hugh Grant, was poorly reviewed, but a box office success; it remains one of her highest-grossing films. Her next release was also a Hollywood production, as Moore appeared alongside Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas in the thriller ""Assassins"" (1995). Despite negativity from critics, the film earned $83.5 million worldwide. Moore's only"
"arrested when he tried to board a commercial plane with a gun in his luggage. He was sentenced to community service. In 1997, Slater was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend, Michelle Jonas, and a police officer while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He spent over 100 days in a rehabilitation facility while out on bail and then was sentenced to a three-month term in jail followed by three months in a residential rehab center. On May 24, 2005, Slater was arrested in Manhattan, New York, after he allegedly sexually harassed a woman on the street. A video of"
"years, which some claimed was a gay relationship. The two met early on in Grant's career in 1932 at the Paramount studio when Scott was filming ""Sky Bride"" while Grant was shooting ""Sinners in the Sun"", and moved in together soon afterwards. Scott's biographer Robert Nott states that there is no evidence that Grant and Scott were homosexual, and blames rumors on material written about them in other books. Grant's daughter, Jennifer, also denied the claims. When Chevy Chase joked on television in 1980 that Grant was a ""homo. What a gal!"", Grant sued him for slander, and Chase was"
"Lee Grant Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress and film director. In her 1951 film debut, she played the role of a young shoplifter in William Wyler's ""Detective Story"", co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. It earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, along with the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, as she had refused to testify against her husband at the HUAC hearings, she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next ten years. She was then only able to find"
"adult movies, usually plot-oriented. In ""Suzie Superstar"", she played the lead singer of a rock band. Off-screen she traveled in limousines and stayed in first class hotels. Grant was provided with her own make-up artist, 27-year-old Laurie Smith (who was also an adult star). Smith, who co-starred with Grant in several movies (including ""Suzie Superstar"", ""The Young Like It Hot"", and ""Bad Girls IV""), also became Grant's best friend and fellow cocaine user during that period. She quit the adult film business for a short time following Grant's suicide. Grant's popularity earned her three acting nominations at the March 1984"
"""Murder in Suburbia"", ""Blue Murder"" and ""Casualty"". She also appeared as Maria Ronson in the film ""Until Death"" with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Stephen Rea, in The Purifiers with Dominic Monaghan and more recently in the sci-fi-fi comedy Snatchers. On January 15, 2018, Grant publicly made a sexual assault allegation against actor/producer Steven Seagal, stating an incident took place in 2002, during pre-production on his direct-to-video film, ""Out for a Kill"" (2003), and that she lost her job on the film after the incident. Rachel Grant Rachel Louise Grant de Longueuil (born 25 September 1977), known professionally as Rachel Grant,"
"is married, but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive French woman and her embittered, paraplegic American husband. The film was called an ""anti-romantic opus of sexual obsession and cruelty"" by the ""Washington Post"". In 1993 he had a supporting role in the Merchant-Ivory drama ""The Remains of the Day"". In typical tongue-in-cheek style, Grant later jokingly called many of the productions of his early career ""Europuddings, where you would have a French script, a Spanish director, and English actors. The script would usually be written by a foreigner, badly translated into English. And then they'd get"
"Paris Hilton Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American television personality, socialite, businesswoman, model, and actress. She is the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. Born in New York City and raised there and in Beverly Hills, California, Hilton began her modeling career as a teenager when she signed with New York-based modeling development agency Trump Model Management. Her lifestyle made her a feature of entertainment news and tabloid magazines, and Hilton was proclaimed ""New York's leading It girl"" in 2001. In 2003, a sex tape with Hilton and her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, later"
"Susan Hart Susan Hart (born June 2, 1941) is an American actress, and the widow of American International Pictures (AIP) co-founder James H. Nicholson. She is best known for her appearances in four popular AIP films of the 1960s, ""The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini"", ""Pajama Party"", and the Vincent Price vehicles ""Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine"" and ""City Under the Sea"", and two non-AIP movies, """"For Those Who Think Young"""" and ""Ride the Wild Surf"". In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. Hart now owns the rights"
"in bed with another male character - a scene that caused outcry among conservative sponsors at the time. Grant went on to play roles in various television shows and movies, including ""Happy Birthday, Gemini"", ""Legs"", ""Labor of Love"", """", ""Law & Order"", ""Criminal Minds"", and ""Alias"". In 2004, he played a gay husband in the remake of ""The Stepford Wives"", and played the father of Anne Hathaway's character in the 2006 film ""The Devil Wears Prada"". His last appearance on television was in an episode of ""Party Down"" in May 2009. On the stage, Grant is most notable for his"
"by Charles Brackett]] [[Category:Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles)]] [[Category:United States National Film Registry films]] Sunset Boulevard (film) Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the thoroughfare with the same name that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent-film star who draws him into her fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen."
"in May 2000. According to ""The Guardian"", Hurley was ""then known as 'Hugh Grant's girlfriend,' now known as 'Hugh Grant's former girlfriend,'"" due to the high-profile nature of their relationship. On 4 April 2002, Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley. The baby's father, American businessman Steve Bing, denied paternity by alleging that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001. A DNA test, however, established Bing as the child's father. Hugh Grant is his godfather. Hurley is godmother to Patsy Kensit and Liam Gallagher's son Lennon and two of David and Victoria Beckham's sons (Brooklyn"
"set of one of Cary Grant's movies, while visiting with Grant. Howard Hughes and Cary Grant were close, long-time friends. As World War II threatened in 1939, Hutton moved to California. She was active during the war, giving money to assist the Free French Forces and donating her yacht to the Royal Navy. Using her high-profile image to sell war bonds, she received positive publicity after being derided by the press as a result of her marriage scandals. In Hollywood, she met Cary Grant, one of the biggest movie stars of the day, and later married him on July 8,"
"Bobby Hollander Bobby Hollander (April 20, 1929 – March 7, 2002) was an American adult film director, performer, and magazine publisher. He directed 59 pornographic movies between 1979 and 1995. He was one of the pioneers of the shot-on-video porn movie. Hollander was most famous for discovering and managing porn superstar Shauna Grant. He is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame. Born Ira Allen Sachs to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Hollander entered the pornography industry in 1970, appearing in loops. According to a March 14, 1988 article in ""People"", Hollander gave Colleen Applegate her stage name Shauna"
"rights and secondly to film in Swaziland. For the last infraction, Grant was eventually forced to meet with the King of Swaziland to seek clemency. During an interview with an Australian chat show, he mentioned that ""Wah-Wah"" was not released in France, and as a result, his producer did not make money out of it. Grant married voice coach Joan Washington in 1986 and has one daughter with her (Olivia) and a stepson (Tom). Grant is a teetotaller. He is intolerant to alcohol, having no enzymes in the blood to metabolise it. If he does drink alcohol, he can keep"
"the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6937 Hollywood Boulevard, and a second one for contributions to the Hollywood community at 6897 Hollywood Boulevard. Grant was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009. On January 9, 2008, Grant was not feeling well when he had lunch with Ana Martínez-Holler, a spokeswoman for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Later that afternoon he relayed the same to his business manager, Jim Harper, stating he felt ""lousy."" Later that evening, Grant was found unconscious in his bed, in a 14th floor suite he lived in at the Roosevelt Hotel, by"
"his twelve-year boycott of the ceremony. Two days after this announcement, Bouron filed a paternity suit against Grant and publicly stated he was the father of her seven-week-old daughter. Bouron named Grant as the father on the child's birth certificate. Grant challenged her to a blood test and Bouron failed to provide one, and the court ordered her to remove his name from the certificate. Between 1973 and 1977 he dated British photojournalist Maureen Donaldson, followed by the much younger Victoria Morgan. On April 11, 1981, Grant married Barbara Harris, a British hotel public relations agent who was 47 years"
"with Larry Parks. Her sexy, glamorous appeal was most noted in Charles Vidor's film noir ""Gilda"" (1946) with Glenn Ford, which caused censors some consternation. The role, in which Hayworth wore black satin and performed a legendary one-glove striptease, ""Put The Blame On Mame"", made her into a cultural icon as a ""femme fatale"". While ""Gilda"" was in release, it was widely reported that an atomic bomb which was scheduled to be tested at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands would bear an image of Hayworth, a reference to her bombshell status. Although the gesture was undoubtedly meant"
"a comic host of Hen's Night bus tours Grant met Karen Livingstone. Grant and Livingstone became partners a few months later, living in her family home in Carlton, Victoria. The pair had two children; Madeleine and Spencer. Grant performed in comedy clubs and on talk shows for twenty years. He joined an Australia comedy showcase tour to Los Angeles in 1999. In 2006 he created a comedy routine for the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria to encourage young drivers not to drive while sleep-deprived. Grant's comedy often revolved around men's health and men's behaviour. He performed twelve one man comedy"