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When Laurel entered the strip club, she was dazzled by the kaleidoscope of lights, the shimmering silver of the disco ball. Curves that she aspired to have one day filled her eyes. Laurel wouldn''t be in this situation alone, wouldn''t walk through the black door without someone holding her hand and guiding her into the den of sin. She was nine years old-and that person happened to be her father, Michael Woods, a former California Patrol officer-turned-high-profile adult entertainment peddler in Los Angeles. Laurel didn''t need the big audience, didn''t need the lights, but desperately started to need affirmation of being seen as beautiful and wanted based on her father''s constant influence. In Laurel''s raw recollections through the stages of her life, we see how this shapes and breaks her. When Michael''s partner, fellow former California Highway Patrol Officer and suspected gangster, Horace Joseph McKenna Jr. (Big Mac), was brutally slayed at his mansion, which was also known as an exotic animal haven, the Woods family is thrown into disarray. But it won''t be for a decade until Michael Woods is arrested and convicted for the murder. With millions of dollars tied up in the flesh-and-fantasy empire that Woods and McKenna built, Laurel answers the call to take over. She knew it wasn''t for the faint of heart, but it would take some time to understand that it wasn''t for her fragile self-construct either while also defending her father, who she learns more about while he is incarcerated. The case has been the subject of countless documentaries and whodunnit splashes on blogs. But no one knows the story of the Strip Club Heiress. until now.
