Hugh Grant pleaded no contest and was fined $1,180, placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program. In addition to being ordered to attend an AIDS class and perform five days of community service, she was fined $1,150 for parole violations and sentenced to 180 days in jail. Ĭharged with lewd conduct, she pleaded no contest on September 6, 1995. According to Thompson, the attention of a policeman was alerted by Grant repeatedly pressing the brake pedal of his BMW with his foot, causing the brake lights to flash many times. On June 27, 1995, Thompson and British actor Hugh Grant were arrested together in Los Angeles. Going to Union Square in San Francisco one night, she earned $1,000 in five hours.
Having herself become a mother of two daughters, she turned to sex work when she could not pay a $133 electricity bill. She was one of six children of a single mother. Thompson grew up in poverty in the eastern part of Oakland, California.
Thompson has remained in the public eye since then through work in pornography, television appearances, and newspaper interviews. Estella Marie Thompson (born August 9, 1969), also known as Divine Brown, is an American former sex worker who gained attention from law enforcement and the media in 1995 when actor Hugh Grant was caught receiving oral sex from her in his car on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.