- Was addicted to heroin.
- Member of Greater Los Angeles American Mensa.
- Has two sons Jovi and Tariku who she adopted from Ethiopia.
- Wrote an uncompleted novel "How To Saw A Girl In Half".
- Did a TEDx talk about adoption and identity at Chapman University in 2014.
- Published the memoir "Everything You Ever Wanted".
- Spent time in the harem of the prince of Brunei.
- Worked as a stripper while attending college.
- Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle, Flaunt Magazine, the Daily Beast, Salon and many others.
- Only journalist to extensively interview Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in American history.
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