I did, nobody cares. There are maybe a dozen people who would remember any of this, all of whom were on drugs at the time, and the three girls still alive I knew, who, allegedly, worked the same circuit are all now very proper wives of diplomats. Bill Hershey will remember all of it, if he’s still alive. Simon LeBon…

All I can say is that there are models, and then there are alternative models. Tokyo was kinda like the wild west in those days, A LOT of girls made a lot of money, but there’s only so many Seiyu department store lingerie catalogues to go around.

Were I a journalist looking for a scoop on Melania’s fascinating career beginnings, I would start in Tokyo. It seems that she was one of Gloria Askew’s girls for a while in about ‘89-90ish, but by then, allegedly, Gloria was no longer the toast of the town at the height of Tokyo Eight mania, but, rumor at the time had…

Were I a journalist looking for a scoop on Melania’s fascinating career beginnings, I would start in Tokyo. It seems that she was one of Gloria Askew’s girls for a while in about ‘89-90ish, but by then, allegedly, Gloria was no longer the toast of the town at the height of Tokyo Eight mania, but, rumour at the time…