picked up by a network. Whatever the reason for her confessions, she clearly felt traumatized by something.
âYou seem really emotional,â I said. âAre you okay?â
âIâm fine,â she said, sniffling again. âIâd rather talk about it than not talk about it.â
She would have gone on talking about her pain that day, but Rubenstein cut the interview short, saying Alexis would be available another time. I was disappointed that he wouldnât allow her to discuss her case, but he assured me she would do so eventually. On my way out of the office, I stopped by a conference room where Alexis was now meeting with Susan Haber and her mother, Andrea. Alexis was begging Haber to let her fly off to Mexico with a friend on his private jet.
âMy friends are telling me, âyou need to chill out,â â Alexis was saying. Her voice had taken on a different toneâit sounded flip.
Haber reminded her that she was not allowed to travel out of the state, much less out of the country, as she was a suspect in a burglary case.
âNobody will find out,â Alexis whined.
âYouâd be in Mexico and TMZ would catch you on a beach,â Haber said.
It turned out that Alexis actually wanted to go to Mexico for a Pretty Wild shoot in Cabo San Lucas, which she eventually did. The episode, âWhat Happens in Cabo, Stays in Caboâ featured Alexis and Tess doing a photo shoot in bikinis to âraise money for Haiti.â âWe are successful, strong independent women. I know this is the truth. . .and so it is,â they prayed, outfitted in their bikinis.
Alexis started telling me more about her career.
âI started modeling about four years ago,â she said, brightening up. She said she booked her jobs herself; she didnât belong to an agency. âJust print work. Iâm not tall enough to do runway unfortunately. I wish . Maybe in, like, six-inch pumps.
âI went to Paris in August and stayed at the Crillon [Hotel]ââthis was for the Issa Lingerie shoot for FashionTVââand it was gorgeous ,â she said. âI flew first-class there and back. . . .I took my sister Tess. We got shopping money every day and a personal driver and Ferraris and Mercedes took us around. It was like two weeks of total luxury . It was incredible .â
Andrea said, âIt wasnât two weeks, it wasââ
âIt was almost,â Alexis insisted. âIt was so cool.â
I observed that she seemed to have a fabulous life for one so young.
âOh, you donât even know ,â Alexis said, laughing. âIâve been dating [an Academy Awardâwinning actor] and Tess is dating Kid Rock.â (In March 2009, Tess posted a picture of herself and Kid Rock posing, along with several other girls, on her MySpace page.)
Andrea knitted her brow. âYou went on one date,â she said. âUnfortunately, sheâs over 18 and I canât say anything,â she told me.
âWe were in this house,â Alexis said, ignoring her mother, âand [the Academy Awardâwinning actor] takes my Dior red lipstick out of my purse and rubs it all over his lips and turns around and does this 15-minute monologue as a transvestite. It was so funny, so amazing.â
I said I remembered reading something about how the Academy Awardâwinning actor had gotten back together with his wife.
âTabloids lie,â Alexis scoffed. âWhen you read heâs back together with her, heâs not ; heâs just doing it for the kids.â
Later, my cop source, who had had access to Alexisâ cell phone at some point, told me, âAlexis had sent some texts asking [the Academy Awardâwinning actor] to hang out with her, kind of clingy. He was very polite about it.â
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