Two weeks before his first big American studio premiere in 1995, this floppy-haired British rom-com king was arrested in a parked car off Sunset Boulevard with a sex worker — and his mugshot went around the world.
The full story
Hugh Grant was arrested in June 1995 with sex worker Divine Brown and pleaded no contest to misdemeanor lewd conduct, paying a fine. The scandal broke two weeks before the premiere of Nine Months — which he famously still promoted on Leno, in one of the most-watched late-night appearances of the decade.
The clues we handed out
— At the time he was dating a famous model in her famous safety-pin-dress era.
— Days later he went on The Tonight Show and told Jay Leno: “I did a bad thing.”
— His movies have made 'bumbling, charming Englishman' a full-time genre.
— More recently he's played villains: a flamboyant one in Paddington 2, a con man in The Undoing.
— Initials: H.G.
How this case played
ALLEGEDLY* edition No. 8. Three strikes to name Hugh Grant, with a free clue
unlocked after every miss.
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