The first time I was threatened with a libel suit...
....was by a famous man who is now dead so I can tell you about it.
This photo was taken at a book party at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles in 2006 for the publication of my first book, Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens. I’m smiling in the photo even though I’m pissed because at the last minute I was forced to remove a bunch of juicy, perverted stories (corroborated by multiple first hand accounts) about a famous man who threatened me and my publisher, Harper Collins, with a libel suit if I included the details in the book…