TO FORGO IS DIVINE

Divine Brown, alias Estella Marie Thompson, alias the Hollywood hooker caught in flagrante delicto with Hugh Grant, pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in Hollywood Municipal Court and got six months in jail and a $1,350 fine. Thompson was sent to jail for violating a previous probation. Grant, whose record was clean, got off with a $1,180 fine and two years' probation. Brown was reportedly paid thousands of dollars to tell her story to a British tabloid newspaper, but People Page editor Belinda Luscombe says she's refused plenty of offers stateside. "She does seem to be showing a modicum of taste, doesn't she? I get the impression she doesn't want to dwell among the ranks of the notorious like John Wayne Bobbitt or Joey Buttafuoco. Still, she is the world's luckiest hooker."