Quotes

[casting couch] The casting couch was everywhere. Producers expect you to sleep with them, and there are 20 girls behind you begging to sleep with the producer to win the role. Now I kick myself for refusing to sleep with producers, because I was offered some films that could have made me a superstar.

[protecting her nude models] There's a famous billionaire Hollywood mogul whose wife posed for sexy shots and recorded phone sex ads for me before they married. When the couple divorced his family tried to buy the photos to discredit her, but I wouldn't sell.

[Flynt and Hefner] I worked for Hugh Hefner's Playboy and for Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, and partied with both. I remember an orgy at the Playboy Mansion one night, with Hef naked in his room and 10 girls taking turns entertaining him. Crazy times!

[her mom working in her sex business] My mum moved to Los Angeles and helped me record hundreds of sex tapes. She was a good sport, but she was useless. She'd say: "I feel so hot!" and she just sounded bored. She made groaning sounds like Boris Karloff.

[adult film star Stormy Daniels] It was 2002 and Stormy Daniels was an exotic dancer looking to boost her value by appearing on the cover of adult magazines. I was able to arrange that for her, and it set her on her way. She also recorded phone sex ads for me, and recorded sexy phone tapes. Who knew she'd be sleeping with a future president?

[encouraging her daughter to pose nude] My 27-year-old daughter Rachel is an artist but she was asked to pose in Playboy magazine, and I told her: 'Go for it!' The female body is a thing of beauty.

[being accused of ripping off her adult internet customers] The FBI began investigating, my phone was tapped and I was followed. They thought I'd stolen about £45million but quickly realized I was just a naive blonde when they saw I didn't have any of the money. It turned out to be a massive banking error of colossal proportions.

[porn industry] People assume the porn business is filled with horrible con men abusing women, but they only cared about money.

[launching her nude photo business] [A photographer] had taken some nude shots of a model and threw away the photos that weren't his favorites. I fished them out of the trash and asked if I could try selling them. I got £24,0000, and realized there's a great business in this. I began paying photographers for their nude photos and I owned the copyright, and eventually amassed a library of 1.5 million nudes, which I sold to adult magazines. When the internet began taking off in 1993, I had the world's biggest library of nude images, and licensed them at £70 an image. I made a fortune.

[her Hollywood expose book] I must be doing something right, because I've had death threats, and six people suing to stop the book's publication so far.

[her internet porn empire ending in 2008] Everyone and his brother had a digital camera and could post naked photos of their girlfriends. Nobody wanted to pay when they could get it for free.

[Hollywood actors and porn stars] When I was producing adult films I'd have Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss's boyfriend, actor Tom Sizemore, often come to the set to watch the filming, and he'd bring Jack Nicholson and Charlie Sheen and other stars. They enjoyed watching porn get made, and enjoyed the girls too, though I never slept with them. Movie action hero Steven Seagal famously had bus-loads of girls shipped in to his film set every day to party with him, and girls were lining up for the chance.

[working with the Mafia] Some New York investors came to me looking to expand their phone sex business, and I helped them negotiate ad space in adult magazines. I didn't realize they were mobsters. I grew their business, and found myself in charge of producing their phone sex taped messages and launching their business across Europe. The phone sex business proved a gold mine, earning over £40 million a month. They had live girls and prerecorded chats. But it got dangerous. A rival mob put out a hit on me for encroaching on their territory. Thankfully I had protection and I'm still here. Then I got into a dispute with the mob over money, and fell out with them too. I walked away but later I met one of the mobsters, who laughed as he told me: "I'm glad the hit was called off, and I didn't have to break your legs."

[her steamy past catching up to her] The last serious relationship I had we were talking marriage, but when he found out about my history and the book I was writing, he said it was a dealbreaker. He's politically connected, and said: 'I can't bring you to dinner at the Trump White House if you've been selling adult porn and promoting Stormy Daniels.' I got dumped because of my past.

[plans for Harvey Weinstein producing a TV series from her book falling through] A week later, Weinstein's sex scandal exploded and he became a Hollywood pariah. His company collapsed, and my deal died with it. It was unbelievably bad timing. The only silver lining was that we weren't in business together long enough for Harvey to try to get into my pants. But the idea for a TV series about my life hasn't disappeared. I now have two new offers to turn my life into a TV series, so it'll happen.