Some girls my life in a Harem
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Born...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
PLUME,
c2010.
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. |
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| Physical Description: | 339 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780452296312 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0452296315 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | Jillian Lauren is a New York Times Best Selling author of such works as Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Pretty, and Everything You Ever Wanted. She grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and graduated from Newark Academy in 1991. She then moved to New York Ciity where she studied acting at New York University. Soon after, she started exotic dancing in New York and became an escort. This led to being selected to join the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei for several years. She then sttended Antioch University and graduated with an MFA in creative writing. She used her degree to begin her writing career. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Los Angeles Magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) |
