A detail of the billboard featuring Jody “Babydol” Gibson in West Hollywood, 1999.

Jody Gibson. Or, to Some of You Cads, “Babydol”

In the 90s, she ran Hollywood’s most elite—and, perhaps, most expensive—prostitution ring

Jody Gibson was seemingly just another aspiring pop singer in Hollywood when a 25ft billboard was posted on Sunset Boulevard in 1992. Adorned with her smiling face, it announced “Babydol … coming soon”.

The woman in question did indeed find the fame she was seeking. Yet rather than miming to hit singles on MTV, she featured on newsreels across the world in 1999 after her arrest on suspicion of running an elite prostitution ring that employed porn stars, state beauty queens and Playboy models.