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Jet, July 24, 1995

Stella Thompson, the prostitute arrested with actor Hugh Grant after police allegedly caught them in a sex act, told a tabloid Grant confessed to her, "I always wanted to sleep with a Black woman. That's my fantasy."

In the London tabloid News of the World, Thompson, who also goes by the name Divine Brown, said Grant also told her, "You are one beautiful Black woman."

She says she then asked, "Have you ever slept with a Black woman?" And he replied, "No, but I've always wanted to."

The star of the upcoming movie Nine Months, wound up getting himself arrested because he was short of money, Thompson, 23, said.

The woman told the paper that Grant paid $60 for oral sex in his car but, "I told him that for $40 more we could've gone to a room--and never have been caught."

Thompson said she first saw Grant, 34, cruising Sunset Boulevard wearing an L.A. Dodgers baseball cap pulled low.

"He said, `Wow, your lips are fabulous,' said his name was Lewis and told me I looked gorgeous," Thompson recalled.

Then she asked that Grant expose himself because undercover cops are not allowed to, she told the tabloid.

She said she played a cruel joke on Grant by pretending she was a vice cop. However, when she went to get her "badge" it turned out to be a packet of condoms.

"He put his hand up over his face and said, Jesus, I thought I was going to have a bloody heart attack. Please don't do things like that... EVER!" Grant also didn't want to use a condom, Thompson said, but she insisted.

At press time, Grant and Thompson were to go before a Hollywood municipal court July 18.