The Life Of A Hooker

Who Is Lola Devine?

What we know is she was hard as nails. From Robert's recollections her real name was something like Janice, Janine or Janie. She only half-mentioned it once. Her work name of choice was Lola from the Kink's song.

The Devine part isn't what I would expect - it's not Godly in a sarcastic fashion... it's a homage to a porn star called Ava Devine!

While in Barstow Rob shared a few hours with the lovely Lola and learned a bit about her but more about himself in the process. She told him she was going back to Los Angeles after working for a term in Vegas as a hooker to make easy cash. Apparently the work there is better and safer than here in Hollywood.

Rob told me during one of our interviews that Lola started out by mistake. She was at some party and got carried away with two guys.

That lead to a drop in her inhibitions and she took the plunge as a hobby more than an source of income. I suppose it must be like Pringles... once you pop you can't stop!

Concerning STD's Lola had one word... well two actually and as a writer I'm jelous I didn't come up with them: Plastic Fantastic. She reckoned girls like her take more precautions against STD's than the typical person having a one night stand at 1:30am on a Saturday morning in Anahiem.

She said she once fell asleep in the middle of a poker game while she waited for her client to finish. Seems pretty scary to me but her, I'm only a normal person.

Rob also mentioned that the thing she said got her most angry was men who are flakes. He told me he pressed for a little clarification that statement just to be sure he wouldn't fall into the 'flake' category. Apparently Lola once drove 55 minutes to a guy's house for an appointment after a lot of email to-and-fro only to be told in the middle of things that he thought she wasn't charging for the first visit.

Now I've never gone down that route: being able to form sentences and shower I have always managed to be able to talk to nice girls in nice bars. This saddo though must have been as green as a gherkin or as dumb as a dickshit. What working girl in history gives the first time up for free?

If that was the case frat houses up and down the nation would have hooker-hotlines.

The thing I find most interesting in all of this is that these women post themselves on craigslist for business. It's a seemingly common thread. Rob wanted me to include some of these things Lola told him in the book but as it had little to do with the actual events I opted not to but while he's away the mice will play...

So I thought you might like to learn a little more while we're having the documents checked that Rudy 'found'.

Hopefully in a day or two we will have an answer on those and be able to post them.

In the mean time thanks for reading.