There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.
I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."
There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.
People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.
That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.