In 1988, Laws authored the book Meet the Stars, which details how the average person can succeed in the entertainment industry.
[17] The book also spotlights the rampant prejudice directed at Italian-Americans in the early twentieth century[18] and delves into the real-life romance between Laws’ great aunt Rose and Vito Giacalone, a former Detroit mobster and the prime suspect in the death of labor union leader, Jimmy Hoffa.
[19][20] On August 15, 2019, Laws's second memoir, "Undercover Debutante: The Search for My Birth Parents and a Bald Husband," was published.
The book explains how the author tracked down her birth family and found a husband after a number of disastrous boyfriends.
[29] Moore removed his website in the midst of the FBI investigation, but announced on November 28, 2012, that he would start a new site that would include address information.
[32] The FBI arrested Hunter Moore and his hacker, Charles Evens of Studio City, California, who went under the alias of "Gary Jones", on January 23, 2014.
Until 2018, Laws was a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI),[37][38] an organization dedicated to helping victims of online harassment.
[43][44] She claims to have assisted over 800 victims of non-consensual pornography, morphed porn (or deep fakes), and sextortion since the inception of her activism in 2012.
[47] Laws has discussed her battle against revenge porn on various television shows and podcasts including Tamron Hall,[48] The Adam Carolla Show,[49] Ask Dr. Drew,[50] Good Day LA,[51] Inside Edition,[52] Access Hollywood,[53] Banfield,[54] Lorraine[55] and News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn.
[56] Laws has made presentations on the issue at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,[57] the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh[58] and to lawyers affiliated with the office of the United States Attorney.
[76] In March 2015, Laws came to defend the LGBTQ communities when a Southern California attorney proposed a statewide ballot initiative that permitted the execution of gays by "bullets to the head or any other convenient method.
In response to what was seen as a vicious and repugnant attack on LGBTQ people, Laws registered a rebuttal initiative with the Attorney General's office, titled "The Intolerant Jackass Act".
Laws’ proposal called for sensitivity training and a steep fine for anyone submitting a state initiative related to the killing of gays.
[78] In June 2015, the initiative was cleared to move forward, but Laws said that she did not plan to gather signatures, adding "I'm glad my proposal made an impact.
She was a cab driver, private investigator, bodyguard, backup singer for an Elvis impersonator, nurse, fashion designer, aerobics instructor, antiques shop owner, and president of a legal corporation.
[89] In April 2015, Laws went public about her three-year romance with singer Tom Jones in her memoir, Rebel in High Heels.
[90] She married English barrister and California attorney Charles Parselle in the 1990s and has a daughter named Kayla Laws, who is an actress.
[92] Laws’ father-in-law, Thomas Parselle, was captured by the Nazis during World War II, transported to a German POW camp and witness to the notorious break-out attempt as depicted in the movie, The Great Escape.
[94] Mae Poulet was also involved in a 2011 fundraiser with actress Natalie Portman and actor Jason Alexander to raise money for poultry in need.
[95][96] In July 2019, Laws admitted in an article that she committed a crime which may have violated the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act when she conspired to rescue pigeons.