Almost all American girls have played at being ballerinas while dreaming of becoming princesses like Grace Kelly. Unfortunately, life distorts these fantasies. These same girls settle for being treated like a princess on anniversaries or having fairy-tale affairs with members of the country club. Some girls, like Jillian Lauren, realize these fantasies in entirely different ways. They become strippers, the nameless topless actresses in bad horror films. They lounge in New York high-rises as the escorts of American royalty, and a few, like Lauren, find themselves in actual palaces as members of a prince’s harem.
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2011.