She gained media attention in 1995 when the English actor Hugh Grant was caught receiving oral sex from her in his car on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.

[3] She was ordered to attend an AIDS class and perform five days of community service, and sentenced to two years' summary probation.

[4] In September 1996, Thompson was arrested at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Paradise after flirting and making suggestive comments to undercover police officers.

[9] Thompson continued to stay in the public eye, appearing in Joey Buttafuoco's public-access television show in 1998, on Judge Judy in 1996,[10] and on the Danish documentary series Negermagasinet in 2005.

As a result, she and her manager, partner, and father of her children, Alvin C. Brown, bought a four-bedroom home in Beverly Hills.

Thompson has said the money she earned from interviews and endorsements after the 1995 interrupted dalliance has allowed her to put her daughters through private school.