Strip Club Heiress
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-216-37218-9 (ISBN)
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When Laurel entered the strip club, she was dazzled by the kaleidoscope of lights, the shimmering silver of the disco ball. Curves that she aspired to have one day filled her eyes. Laurel wouldn’t be in this situation alone, wouldn’t walk through the black door without someone holding her hand and guiding her into the den of sin. She was nine years old—and that person happened to be her father, Michael Woods, a former California Patrol officer-turned-high-profile adult entertainment peddler in Los Angeles. Laurel didn’t need the big audience, didn’t need the lights, but desperately started to need affirmation of being seen as beautiful and wanted based on her father’s constant influence. In Laurel’s raw recollections through the stages of her life, we see how this shapes and breaks her.
When Michael’s partner, fellow former California Highway Patrol Officer and suspected gangster, Horace Joseph McKenna Jr. (Big Mac), was brutally slayed at his mansion, which was also known as an exotic animal haven, the Woods family is thrown into disarray. But it won’t be for a decade until Michael Woods is arrested and convicted for the murder. With millions of dollars tied up in the flesh-and-fantasy empire that Woods and McKenna built, Laurel answers the call to take over. She knew it wasn’t for the faint of heart, but it would take some time to understand that it wasn’t for her fragile self-construct either while also defending her father, who she learns more about while he is incarcerated.
The case has been the subject of countless documentaries and whodunnit splashes on blogs. But no one knows the story of the Strip Club Heiress… until now.
Laurel Woods is currently deputy site manager for Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) and an emergency medical technician serving the Los Angeles county area. She was previously a visual effects artist at Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm, working on such blockbuster hits as Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. She has also served as director of design operations at MTV Networks and office manager at Playboy. She has been featured on KCRW's radio show Unfictional, as well as published in The Nervous Breakdown and Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Shiny Brass Pole
Chapter 2 Just a Normal Family
Chapter 3 Living on Tootsie Rolls and Twinkies
Chapter 4 I Am the Bionic Woman
Chapter 5 Ronald Reagan’s Limo…and Other Beauties
Chapter 6 Big Mac
Chapter 7 Girl in the Fast Lane
Chapter 8 Money!
Chapter 9 Bear Attacks
Chapter 10 Happy Hoarding
Chapter 11 The Prozac Days
Chapter 12 How Does It Feel?
Chapter 13 Clubbing Intel
Chapter 14 Excelling at U Can Study Buzzed
Chapter 15 It Could Have Been Anyone
Chapter 16 Surrounded by Smut
Chapter 17 May the Force Be with Me
Chapter 18 Address in Slumvato
Chapter 19 Skeletons Aren’t Dead
Chapter 20 A Very Secure Room of One’s Own
Chapter 21 On the Edge
Chapter 22 Into the Woods
Chapter 23 America’s Most Wanted
Chapter 24 A Cold and Dazed Family
Chapter 25 Olivia Newton-John Will Save Us
Chapter 26 Time for Dirty Santa’s Little Helper
Chapter 27 Making it Rain
Chapter 28 Women Talking
Chapter 29 The Clearing
Chapter 30 Destruction
Chapter 31 Trauma Pasta
Chapter 32 Prison for Dummies
Chapter 33 Seeking Sanity
Chapter 34 She Really Doesn’t Sleep
Chapter 35 Daddy’s Dialing Again
Chapter 36 Huey’s Last Squawk
Chapter 37 Christmas with Phil Spector
Chapter 38 I Didn’t Stalk Carrie Fisher!
Chapter 39 Framing the Framed
Chapter 40 Still the Man of the House
Chapter 41 Big Girl Feelings
Chapter 42 Worst Week in History
Chapter 43 Is the Afterlife Calling Me?
Chapter 44 It Takes Blond Highlights
Chapter 45 Panic and Parole
Chapter 46 Hungry for Seven Carts of Groceries
Chapter 47 The Homecoming
Chapter 48 Still Bionic
Chapter 49 The 1 Percent
Chapter 50 Saved by Sean Penn and a Pandemic
About the Author
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.9.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw photos |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-216-37218-9 / 9798216372189 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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