Ex-prostitute Divine Brown, 53, faces up to 30 years in jail

Pictured: Ex-prostitute Divine Brown, 53, who now faces up to 30 years in jail over battery and cruelty to children charges – 27 years after being caught in a lewd act with actor Hugh Grant

• In 1995, Brown was caught carrying out a sex act on British actor Hugh Grant
• Brown has since said that it was a $50 ‘trick’ that made her a millionaire
• Earlier this year, she was charged with multiple offences in Atlanta, Georgia
• She was charged with battery, cruelty to children, possession of drugs and smuggling suspected cocaine into a jail – which could fetch 30 years in jail 

Former prostitute Divine Brown is facing up to 30 years in jail after being charged with battery and cruelty to children, according to reports.

In 1995, Brown was caught carrying out a sex act on British actor Hugh Grant in Los Angeles, in an incident that shot her to fame and fortune.

She said in the years that followed that the $50 ‘trick’ in Grant’s car on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard made Brown (real name Estella Marie Thompson) a millionaire.

But earlier this year, Brown was charged with battery, cruelty to children, possession of drugs and smuggling suspected cocaine into a jail, according to Fulton County arrest records, and faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

Former prostitute Divine Brown (pictured smoking a cigarette whilst talking on the phone outside of her small Atlanta apartment) is facing up to 30 years in jail after being charged with battery and cruelty to children

A close neighbor in the south Atlanta estate where she now lives told The Mirror that Brown has fallen a long way since she became an overnight star.

She is reported to have earned around $1.6 million from the publicity she recieved from her arrest with Grant, remaining in the public eye through work in the adult film industry, TV appearances and interviews with newspapers.

While Brown would rather have everyone thinking of her as someone who lives a glamorous lifestyle, ‘she has no car, and the shoes she steps out in are nasty old flip-flops,’ the neighbor said, adding the phrase ‘red shoes and no knickers’ sums the 53-year-old.

‘Divine has been in and out of trouble all her adult life. There is constant shouting coming from her home, mostly when she is drunk. It seems her choices may finally be catching up to her,’ the neighbor told the newspaper.

On Valentine’s day, police were called to Brown’s apartment around midday, where she was arrested under her real name. She appeared drunk with ‘very slurred speech,’ according to reports at the time.

There, officers found her 13-year-old alleged victim, who told police she had been hit. The Mirror said the police report alleged Brown had been ‘grabbing her by her arm, throwing her around the apartment, slamming her on the couch’.

The teenager told officers Divine had been under the influence ‘alcohol or something because she has seen her pop pills before,’ the Mirror added.

In 1995, Brown was caught carrying out a sex act on British actor Hugh Grant in Los Angeles, in an incident that shot her to fame and fortune. Pictured: Both are seen after their arrest

While the girl was taken to hospital, Brown was taken to Fulton County Jail. There, officers found she had suspected cocaine hidden inside her body.

Records show the case is still open, and being found guilty of unlawful possession of drugs can fetch 30 years in prison. Meanwhile, a first-degree cruelty to children conviction in the state of Georgia can result in 20 years.

Brown and Grant were both arrested on June 27, 1995, for engaging in a sexual act in public. Officers were drawn to Grant’s car because they noticed his brake lights were flashing on and off, as the drive was pushing his foot down on the pedal.

Both were arrested and pleaded no contest to offences, resulting in fines.

Brown made a fortune following the arrest, due to the attention the case gained thanks to Grant’s stardom. ‘That was the trick that changed my life,’ she said.

Since then, she has said the incident allowed her to put her children through private school. Her and her then-partner bought a four-bedroom home in Beverly Hills.

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