http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grant
Personal life
Grant is known in popular media for his guarded privacy,[137] as he rarely discusses his life in public and chooses instead to fend off personal questions with humour.[23] Grant is a supporter of Marie Curie Cancer Care, whose Great Daffodil Appeal he promoted in March 2008.[138]
In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met little-known actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont.[49] Grant started dating the aspiring model while shooting, and due to his rising fame, the latter half of their relationship was spent in the global media spotlight. After 13 years together, the two made "a mutual and amicable decision" to split in May 2000.[139] With Grant a single man, according to Vogue, "by all accounts the women of London were practically stabbing one another with forks at social events to get close to him."[13] In 2004, he began dating socialite Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of British tabloids.[13] Three years later, in February 2007, Grant's publicist announced that the couple had "decided to split amicably."[140] The spokesman added, "Hugh has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima."
Public scandals
On 27 June 1995, Grant was arrested by L.A. Vice officers in a residential area not far from Sunset Boulevard for misdemeanour lewd conduct in a public place with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown.[141] He pleaded no contest to the charges. He was fined $1,180 (£800), placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program.[142][143]
The arrest occurred about two weeks before the release of Grant's first major studio film, Nine Months, which he was scheduled to promote on several American television shows. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno had him booked for the same week and, as recalled in former employee Don Sweeney's memoirs, "despite his arrest, Hugh Grant kept his appointment to appear on Jay's show."[144] The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was singled out for not making excuses for the incident.[145][146] He famously said:
“ I think you know in life what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.[147] ”
On Larry King Live, Grant declined the host Larry King's repeated invitations to probe his psyche, saying that psychoanalysis was "more of an American syndrome" and he himself was "a bit old fashioned."[148] He told the host: "I don't have excuses."[149] Grant's management of the scandal was deemed unusual for a celebrity. He was appreciated for "his refreshing honesty" as he "faced the music and handled it with tongue [in] cheek."[150] The incident registered strongly in the global cultural conscience and tarnished Grant's wholesome image. In the 2006 CBS TV series Love Monkey, the character called Shooter (Larenz Tate) explained the phenomenon of male discontent as "Grant's Law." Referring to Hugh Grant, he said that the star "had the hottest, sexiest and most beautiful woman waiting for him at home. And what does Hugh do? He picks up a cut-rate whore on Hollywood Boulevard." This, he believed, showed that, "We, as men, can never be satisfied."[151]
In April 2007, Grant was arrested on allegations of assault made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker.[152] Grant made no official statement and did not comment on the incident.[153] Charges were dropped on 1 June by the Crown Prosecution Service due to "insufficient evidence."[154]
