USA: Ex-prostitute Divine Brown launches film career following her infamous encounter with British actor, Hugh Grant

Record ID: 536497

  • Title: USA: Ex-prostitute Divine Brown launches film career following her infamous encounter with British actor, Hugh Grant
  • Date: 25th April 1996
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 25, 1996) (REUTERS) BROWN WALKING DOWN THE STREET, SAYING "WE'RE JUST WALKING, LOOKING FOR HUGH GRANT, I CAME TO PAY MY RESPECTS" (ENGLISH) BROWN AT NEWS CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH THE FILM, SAYING WE TRIED TO GET (FILM) AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE ORIGINAL HUGH GRANT (ENGLISH)
  • Embargoed: 10th May 1996 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES/ FILE
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA18ZGJGMIMLNSE19FSCE3N75HS
  • Story Text: Former prostitute Divine Brown drew catcalls as she strolled around an outdoor film location in New York City on Thursday (April 25), in search of British actor Hugh Grant, who is filming in New York.
    Brown has launched her movie career with a porn film reenacting last year's encounter with Grant, who was arrested after he paid her to perform oral sex on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.
    Informing onlookers and media she was "in search of Hugh", publicity agents accompanying her lost no chance in publicising her new video, described by some as "hard" porn.
    Brown has pledged to send Grant a signed copy of the video, and at a news conference said she would like to meet Grant again, "and his girl" - a reference to Liz Hurley, the British actress who is still Grant's girlfriend.
    Both Grant and Brown were arrested after police approached the actor's car on June 27, 1995.
    Amid the ensuing publicity, Brown retired from prostitution.
    She told Reuters Television she would like to continue acting but not in any further pornographic films.
    The new film entitled, "Sunset and Divine: the British Experience" will have something for both "guys and women", because it is done with "class", she said. "If you don't like it, don't look," she added at a photcall.
    Leisure Time's video, "Sunset and Divine: the British Experience", will be distributed in the United States and Europe in early summer at a cost of 12.99 U.S. dollars.
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