Hugh Grant, photographed by the LAPD in 1995
In 1995 Hugh Grant was on top of the world. He was dating Elizabeth Hurley, one of the sexiest women in the world and his career was taking off. Hot off the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral he was knee deep in the promotion cycle for four different films when he was caught on a side street in Los Angeles being pleasured by a sex worker named Divine Brown in his car.
Both Grant and Brown pleaded no contest and he was fined $1,180 before receiving two years probation and an order to complete and AIDS education program. Brown received a similar sentence but also received 180 days in prison.
When Grant appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote the film Nine Months Leno asked him “What were you thinking?” To which Grant replied, “I think you know in life what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.”
