Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.
More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some GirlsĀ is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.
About the author. Jillian LaurenĀ is a writer, storyteller, mom, and rock-wife. She is theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author of the memoirsĀ Everything You Ever WantedĀ andĀ Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, the true crimeĀ Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer, and the novelĀ Pretty. She has written forĀ The New York Times,Ā The Paris Review,Ā Vanity Fair,Ā Los Angeles Magazine,Ā Elle,Ā The Daily BeastĀ andĀ Salon, among others. She lives with her husband, musician Scott Shriner, and their two sons in Los Angeles.