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American actor Shannen Doherty (1971 - 2024) attends the grand opening of the Century City Market Place, Century City, California, November 18, 1987.

(Photo by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

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New Page!

I've added a new page on the blog, "Timeline", where you'll find Shannen's most important and amazing things that happened in her life, by chronological order.

I might keep on working on that for a while., but for now I think it looks good enough to be shared.

If any of you have more info that has not been added, feel free to tell me! Enjoy!

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Reblogging because I forgot to add some of the photos. Now they are all here together in one post.

Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry and Jason Priestley by Andrew Eccles for the February 20, 1992 issue of The Rolling Stone magazine, featuring the trio on the cover.

You can read the article here.

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December, 1993 - Magazine clipping

SHANNEN DOHERTY

The unpredictable Beverly Hills, 90210 star took a riveting walk—make that a breathless sprint—on the wild side

That tittering you hear is from Santa's workshop, where oneof the elves has laid his hands on a printout of the naughty list and is sharing it with his coworkers. “The Fat Guy has Shannen Doherty down for a couple lumps o' coal,” he giggles. The other elves nod knowingly.

Surely this comes as no surprise to those of us who follow such things, nor, perhaps, to Doherty herself. Shannen, already known for feuding with her 90210 costars and for late-night partying at L.A. clubs, slam-danced her way through '93 with a recklessness usually associated with self-destructive politicians and Shakespeare’s characters but certainly not with 22-year-old actresses who play teenagers on TV. Why our fascination? Probably because Shannen’s TV character, Brenda Walsh, is so normal compared with her hell-bent portrayer

Whatever the reasons, you couldn't miss the hydra-headlines. Cosmetics heir Dean Factor, Shannen’s ex-fiancé, claims that during their engagement last spring, Shannen tried to run him over with her car, menaced him with a gun and threatened to hire thugs to beat him up and sodomize him. He filed for a protection order, but they settled out of court. That brief if tumultuous relationship gave way to a short but action-packed fling with Judd Nelson.

She also wrote $31,628.16 in bad cheeks and owed $14,000in back rent. Then in September—hell's bells! —she impulsively married George Hamilton's 19-year-old son, Ashley, an acquaintance of a few weeks and recentIy out of drug rehab. It was days before her publicist was able to confirm that Shannen, who celebrated her impromptu nuptials in the backyard of her Santa Monica Mountain home, actually had married, license and all.

Then she went on Saturday Night Live and, in mock wedding video, pushed Ashley into the cake.

Anyone at this point care to venture an explation? (1) Carol Potter, Shannen’ TV mom: “She has knack for keeping her face out there, for being just outrageous enough.” (2) A former pal: “She gets this power surge going where she feels she can do aything to anyone at any time and get away with it.” (3) New mother-in-law Alana Stewart: “She's so high-profile, everything gets blown out of proportion. I like her, She's spunky.” (4) Chicago Realtor Chris Foufas, who preceded Factor as her fiancé: “Shannen wants anormal life, to love and be loved, to ive happily ever after. She just doesn’t know how to get it.”

Let's hope she finds some answers in '94. But Santa, keep the coal coming anyway. On or off the small screen, Shannen is at her most entertaining when she’s naughty.

(I had this file saved as December 27, 1993, People magazine, but People magazine were in black and white back then so I don't think it is. Also it talks about Santa Claus' elves so I think it may was published before December 24?)

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This is the last 1993 magazine/article that I have (in English). I've tried to put only the ones that are not tabloids. The ones that Shannen herself, her dad, or close people like her ex Chris Foufas talked to. Still, as you can see, they write such lines as the last one. You can clearly see the press needed their "bad/lost girl" after Drew Barrymore got sober, and chose Shannen because she was strong and confident. I just want that everyone reads them and thinks what this can do to a 20/22-year-old person. Luckily they didn't break her although they almost did. Still, they did it with Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Rose McGowan, etc. Shame on them! Shame on the tabloids, and the old-white-men dominating Holywood establishment!

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by Michael Comte for the November issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by Michael Comte for the November 1993 issue of Vanity Fair.

Brat on a Hot Tin Roof (Part 3)

Shannen doesn’t believe in hell. *‘I only believe in heaven,’’ she says, sitting by her pool. ‘‘My theory on it is that He’s our father, and no matter how many wrongdoings I do, I don’t see how He could have His child burn in eternal hell." She tosses a tennis ball into the pool for her dogs to retrieve. “I tend to think hell is where we are right now,” she adds," in the sense that there are so many struggles that we face.”

Which is why she has decided not to pose nude for Playboy, one of the ‘struggles’ she has struggled with lately. They were offering her a reported $300,000-plus. “They’re really nice people, but I just can’t do it,” she says. ‘‘I mean, what do these men do with Playboy? You always hear stories about them. You know, about men jerking off to Playboy in the bathroom. And that’s a horrifying thought. I just get this image of some really gross guy with, like, Playboy in front of him, just jerking off. And I'm like ‘Oh, God. No. No. I refuse to be the centerfold. I refuse.’ "

She has a similar response to drugs, another one of the hurdles she has faced. “I’ve surpassed that,” she explains. "I’m really not into drugs. It’s sort of like I’m having a natural high on my life, just being myself. Why do I want a drug to alter who I am? Why do I want to snort coke so I can be extremely hyper and talk nonstop? I’ve never understood that drug. What’s the point? And what about ecstasy? I've seen my friends on it, just touching themselves and going home with people they don’t know and I’m like ‘Haven’t you heard of AIDS? My God, what are you thinking? Just because some drug makes you feel incredibly sexual, now you’re just going to pick up on some guy? Get a little control.' I don’t like being out of control, you know. Despite what People magazine says about me.”

She pets her black Lab absentmindedly. “My focus is on finding true happiness,” she says. “That’s my world now.”

Ie a Friday night and Shannen and some of her friends are at the Universal Amphitheatre to see Frank Black (formerly of the Pixies) and the The. "Getting good seats for concerts is clearly the best thing about being famous,’’ she says. ‘‘That means a lot to me.”’

She doesn’t usually go out armed with bodyguards—only if it’s a big function, like when she led the Pledge of Allegiance at the Republican National Convention. Tonight she just pulled her hair over her face like Cousin Itt and walked to her seat. ‘‘It’s like Jack Nicholson at a Lakers game,’’ she explains. ‘‘They see him, but they leave him alone.”

Shannen considers herself something of a music aficionado. ‘‘I have Jimi Hendrix in my car right now,”’ she says proudly.

‘Really?’ I ask. ‘‘Are You Experienced?’’

“In what sense?’’ she responds. ‘Are you asking me if I'm like a Jimi Hendrix person with heroin? Am I experienced in heroin? No, I'm not.”

She seems more knowledgeable about tonight’s concert. It’s a great show and she’s having a great time until a woman approaches her. "She goes, ‘You're not Shannen Doherty, are you?’" Shannen says, recounting the incident the next day. "And I was like ‘No.’ She goes, ‘Well, I’m a casting director and this band is doing a song called ‘We Hate Brenda,’ and we’re looking for a Brenda look‘alike. And you look an incredible amount like her.' "

The woman gave Shannen her card. She looked at it and handed it back. ‘‘I am Shannen,’’ she said. ‘‘ And no thank you." “The woman sat down,’’ Shannen recalls, ‘‘and apologized, but I don’t know whether her apology was sincere or not. Hopefully she’ll think about what I said because what she’s doing is cruel, unjust, and just wrong."

The casting director at the show was working for Kerin Morataya and Darby Romeo, the two masterminds behind what can only be described as the 'I Hate Brenda’ movement... [They give these people some lines that I'm not going to bother to type here, but can be found on the scans of you want to read them]

“It’s propaganda!’’ exclaims Shannen. “These two girls are obviously lonely and depressed and attention-starved. They decided to get attention by picking on me.” She pauses. The I Hate Brenda stuff really upsets her. It also upsets Aaron Spelling, whose company produces Beverly Hills, 90210, and who threatened to stop the recently published I Hate Brenda Book. “We own the name Brenda," he said. "And our lawyers are looking into it.”

But doesn’t Shannen think all this is even a tiny bit amusing? ‘‘No,”’ she says emphatically. ‘‘None of it is amusing to me. What's funny about it? It’s just people hating me. It’s just. . . bad!"

Brenda is back. There are constant rumors that Shannen will be fired from 90210, but here she is, on the set, ready to work. “We would never think of dropping Shannen,’’ says Spelling, who is not a stranger to temperamental stars, having produced such landmark shows as Charlie's Angels and Dynasty. "The actress Shannen Doherty was acting out a lot,” says executive producer Darren Star. ‘‘She was pretty crazy. …She’s clashed with cast members—there’s no love lost between Luke Perry and Shannen—but they're both actors and can put their personal differences aside. There was never any real question that she’d be back.”

And here she is. “Where do you want me?” Shannen is asking. In this episode, the third of the season, Brenda has gone to Minnesota for college. Her roommate, a childhood friend, and she have had several fights, mostly over boys (what else?). And in this scene today Brenda announces that she’s moving back to Beverly Hills. ‘‘Shan,” says director Jeff Melman, ‘‘I want you over a little to the left.”’

Shannen is wearing jeans, a tight cropped black sweater, and (of course) motorcycle boots. She seems oblivious to the other actors, especially the girl who plays her roommate, who is sitting on the edge of the bed having her long blond tresses groomed.

After four rehearsals, they shoot the scene: Brenda bursts in on her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend. The boyfriend puts on his pants and leaves. Brenda yanks out her suitcase and begins to pack. The roommate pleads, ‘‘I know I've been a jerk lately, but we’ve been friends forever.” Brenda continues to pack. Then she delivers her big speech: ‘‘I wanted to be different. Not just from my friends back there, but from you and everyone else. And the truth is, I am different. And that’s just the way it is.” Tight close-up. End of scene.

They go through this several times, and with each take, Shannen sounds grumpier. Brenda always seems to be a little cross, in a perpetually bad mood, and that’s because it’s the way Shannen plays her. ‘‘The character is whiny,” Shannen says defensively. ‘‘But this season will be cool. I end up going out with an older man and it’s a good story line.”’

Melman and Doherty confer a moment over some bit of blocking. Watching the monitor it’s clear that, despite her limited range as an actress, the camera loves Shannen. The girl playing her roommate is, by any objective standard, more beautiful. Yet your eye goes straight to Shannen. The other girl fades away—she’s just another blonde—while Shannen holds your attention. Even the way in which she is irritating and petulant is somehow arresting. She draws you in.

After the scene is taped, Shannen retreats quickly to her dressing room. On the walls are framed magazine covers featuring the stars of 90210 and some pinned-up snapshots. ‘‘I should probably take the shots of the ex-boy-friends down,’’ she says, ripping a photo of Dean off the wall. She tears it in half.

Her friend Audreé Futterman is waiting for her. ‘‘Audreé is part of my team,” Shannen says, plopping down on a futon. ‘She does my hair in all my movies.” The other half of her team is her makeup person, Toni G. They have become her best friends.

Audreé and Shannen were hanging out last night until two A.M. on the set of Wolf, which stars Jack Nicholson. Audreé, who is wearing a loose dress with black boots, is doing hair on the film.

There’s a knock at the door, and a 90210 assistant hands Shannen two white paper bags. She gives one to Audreé and tears open the other. ‘“Two or three years ago when I used to drink and I'd get a hangover, I'd eat a hamburger and French fries,” Shannen explains as she unwraps her burger. ‘‘In-N-Out are the best.” Audreé smiles, as if this is some kind of joke only they two can share. ‘“Two or three years ago? Back then?” she asks. ‘‘Yeah,’’ says Shannen, eating away. She laughs. "I can hardly remember.”’

There’s a lot of back-and-forth about Peter Gabriel concerts and how Shannen doesn’t approve of Audreé’s latest boyfriend and whether or not Shannen will be able to land a part in hipster screenwriter-director Quentin Tarantino’s latest project, Pulp Fiction. Besides Brenda, Shannen’s greatest artistic triumph was playing one of the Heathers in Heathers, the cult film that launched the careers of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Shannen’s eager to get her career back on that kind of cool track, and a role in Pulp Fiction would help. “My agent snuck me the script,” she says. ‘‘He says I'd be perfect.”’ (Tarantino wasn’t aware of Shannen’s interest. The three female roles went to Ma- ria de Medeiros, Rosanna Arquette, and Uma Thurman.)

There is another knock on the door, and an assistant director peeks in and asks Shannen if she could talk to the wardrobe person on her way back to the set. Shannen frowns. ‘‘I thought we worked out the fittings,’’ she says, getting increasingly nasty with every word. ‘‘Could you go tell her that?’ The A.D. leaves and Shannen looks at Audreé. ‘‘God,” Shannen says. ‘‘I mean, if she wants to do a proper fitting . . ."

A few moments later, the A.D. reappears. ‘‘They need you," she says. “And could you stop by Wardrobe?" Shannen rolls her eyes. ‘‘O.K.!’’ she snaps.

Audreé appears to be oblivious—she is there to worship. ‘“Wasn’t Jack great last night?’’ she asks Shannen. ‘Jack definitely has antennae.’

‘“Yeah,”’ Shannen agrees, ‘‘he’s got em.”

They both smile—more in-jokes. “You’ve got antennae, Audreé,’’ Shannen says, pulling on her motorcycle boots. ‘‘ ‘Antennae’ means you’re not self-conscious,’’ she explains, "because you don’t care. That you're just different.”

Audreé finishes her fries. ‘‘Yeah—that’s you, Shannen,’’ she says admiringly. “You don’t care. You've definitely got antennae.’’

“I hope so," says Shannen. "I really hope so.”

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by Michael Comte for the November 1993 issue of Vanity Fair.

Brat on a Hot Tin Roof (Part 2)

Seeing the error of her ways, she moved home and landed the part of Brenda Walsh, the archetypal high-schooler at the center of Beverly Hills, 90210. The show wasn’t a sensation until its second season, and Shannen kept a fairly low social profile. Although it’s been denied, she allegedly had a brief affair with co-star Jason Priestley, who plays her twin brother, Brandon. Then she met Chris Foufas, the only ex-fiancé she still loves.

“She was going out with my best friend,’’ recalls Foufas, who lives in Chicago, where he owns and runs an upscale health club. When Shannen and her boyfriend started fighting, Foufas took her to dinner and they stayed together for a year and a half, a longevity record for Shannen. Foufas comes from a wealthy family ("I had a Porsche when I was 16,” he reports). His father is in the real-estate and casino businesses, and his family has houses in New York, Chicago, and Aspen. ‘‘Shannen wants to be with rich people,’’ says an ex-confidant. ‘She wants that life. Chris was part of that and she loved it.”

By all accounts, they were a good match. "She knew what I was thinking,”’ he says, ‘‘and I could calm her down when she’d get upset. I'd say, ‘Hold your breath. Count to three,' and that seemed to work. But then the show happened and she was one of the 10 sexiest girls in the world. All of a sudden, a big wave hit.”’

Foufas was smitten. One night, before they got into bed, he dropped to one knee and proposed. ‘‘She was sulking because I hadn’t asked her the night before,” he recalls. “‘So I put the ring box on the pillow next to her. She started freaking out when she saw the diamond, saying, ‘This is a big sucker.' ”’

Foufas began commuting between Chicago and Beverly Hills, where they rented a house together. 90210 was becoming huge, and Shannen was growing increasingly restless. Foufas started hearing stories: she was out all night at clubs like Roxbury; she was hanging out with a singer named Scott. When he confronted her, she was defensive. " 'I was considered ugly as a little kid,' ” Foufas remembers her saying. ‘‘ ‘And now I'm considered beautiful.’ She didn’t want to be engaged. She wanted to be out till four A.M. and see all the guys. But she didn’t want to lose me, either.”’

It all unraveled in June of 1992. Foufas was in Chicago and Shannen told him she wanted to throw a party for Scott and his band. He said, O.K., something small, like 10 people. But the next day, according to Foufas, the actress Lara Flynn Boyle called his younger brother and told him that she’d been at a huge bash at Shannen’s and that she was waltzing about with a guy, this singer, introducing him as her new boyfriend.

Foufas got on the next flight to L.A. He went straight to their house, which was trashed. Shannen wasn’t there. "When she came back, we sat down and had a conversation,” Foufas says. ‘‘All of a sudden, she charged at me and went to hit me. I pushed her away and she flew. She said, ‘You hit me! You hit me!' She called the police, but when they came, she said, ‘Forget it.’

“There was a change in her,”” Foufas says. ‘‘It was Shannen in charge now. She had fame. She had money. People kowtowed to her. And she liked it. A lot.”

That night, Foufas stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel (‘I'm on a first-name basis there’’), but couldn’t sleep. There was an earthquake, and he became concerned about Shannen and their four dogs. He called the house, but there was no answer. He drove over, but she wasn’t home.

He didn’t reach her until the next day. ‘“‘She said she was at a girlfriend’s,”’ says Foufas, still sounding sad. ‘‘But she was at Scott’s. She was lying to me. And I was believing it because I loved the girl. There was lots of crying. I said I didn’t want to be with her unless it was going to be me and only me. She said she wanted that, too. And I believed her.”’

That night when she didn’t call, Foufas drove to the house, found the engagement ring, and took it back. ‘‘I was devastated,” he says. ‘‘I couldn’t sleep. I fell apart.”

Shannen didn’t go away quietly; she was furious. She called and called Foufas in Chicago, and in October 1992 she became particularly frantic. She had decided to get breast implants. ‘‘She was scared out of her guts,”’ Foufas recalls. "I tried to talk her out of it. I told her she had nice boobs. I said, ‘You just want to go to bars and say, 'Guys, look what I got!' ”

But he flew to L.A. anyway. He stayed for the operation and thought about getting back together with her, but realized Scott was still in the picture. ‘‘Look,’” he says, "I loved the girl. I can’t explain it exactly. She’s a great girl. She just has this side to her. She can do whatever she wants, fuck everyone else. She doesn’t really care.”’

He pauses. ‘‘She has all my stuff,” he says finally. ‘‘My big-screen TV. My glass refrigerator. My pinball machine. My bed. If you talk to her, tell her I want my stuff back. O.K.?”’

Is a sunny Saturday and Shannen is giving a tour of her new house. She is wearing loose navy palazzo pants, a sleeveless white linen shirt that keeps coming unbuttoned, and her omnipresent motorcycle boots. Her hair is pinned up in a loose bun. The look is half geisha, half biker. “Welcome to my home,’’ she says, standing in her gravel driveway.

She’s been unpacking—she moved in two days ago with her two dogs, a golden retriever named Sally and a black Lab named Penelope. “Yesterday, I just wanted to light it all on fire,’’ she says, clomping into the living room. "Or just throw everything out and start over. It’s the most hellish thing to move.”’

For hating it so much, she’s remarkably nomadic. In the last four years, she’s moved at least eight times. ‘‘I get very antsy,’’ she explains. ‘‘I don’t like to be in one place for too long. But I settle in each time. I do like a house to be a home.”

Her taste runs toward the Gothic: her large living room is filled with overstuffed velvet chairs and sofas. Enormous Art Nouveau posters are leaning against the walls, waiting to be hung. The glass coffee table is covered with flowers which Shannen ordered from the Four Seasons’ florist. She spent last night on the sofa because the mattress for her bed hasn’t arrived. ‘‘It’s a custom European square,’ she explains. ‘“You have to order it.”’

This furniture is expensive—the girl knows her antiques. ‘“What do you think of these?’’ she asks. ‘‘They’re neoclassic French,’ she continues, rubbing the frame of a chair. ‘‘I got them for nothing.”

She walks to the kitchen and opens the refrigerator. The contents are: a bottle of Evian, a carton of milk, one Heineken beer, and a bottle of Cristal champagne. “I"d offer you some food,” she says, “but I don’t think I have any.’’ There is kitchen stuff everywhere waiting to be unpacked and, for some reason, Madonna’s book, Sex, still in its Mylar wrapper, perched on the counter. ‘‘I never even read it,” Shannen says, looking overwhelmed by the mess. ‘‘I hate moving.”’

She goes over to the couch and stares through the sliding glass window at her pool. “‘I am happy in this house,”’ she decides, sitting down. ‘““And I'm very much now into making myself happy, before I can make everybody else happy.’’

This is the new Shannen, the post-Dean, stay-at-home, centered Shannen. In other words, Shannen circa Judd Nelson. “‘Judd’s the most intelligent man you could ever encounter,’ she says. “There’s so much to learn from him." (However, Shannen didn’t last long with Judd—in late September, she married 19-year-old Ashley Hamilton, son of the perpetually tan George. The happy couple had known each other only three weeks.)

And yet, and yet… Dean Factor is still on her mind. ‘‘He’s a menace to women,’’ she states emphatically. ‘‘He breaks down everything that women have worked hard for. To be treated as equals. When a man hits you, you're not an equal. Obviously.” Shannen is excited now. ‘“You know, this goes back to this whole thing of trying to put the blame on me. Why did he hit me? He hit me because I drove him to that point. I infuriated him. I made him angry. Well, why did I make him angry? Because he would try and push my buttons and I wouldn’t necessarily have the reaction he thought I would have.”’

The Dean-Shannen cataclysm is an extreme case of he said/she said. Clearly, their relationship was volatile from the jump. ‘‘She would insult him in public," says one Factor friend. ‘‘She was rude and hostile. I remember him once throwing her in the pool and saying, ‘You need to cool off.' ” “‘I believe Dean,” says Chris Foufas. ‘‘She probably did it. He probably deserved it.”’

They met, through friends, in 1990. Factor is related to the Max Factor family, the cosmetic-company millionaires, and he is a fixture in L.A. hot spots. Dean and his brother Davis, a photographer, own and run SmashBox, the most successful photo studio in Los Angeles. Dean and Shannen went out briefly. She felt he was leading her on. ‘‘Then he broke up with me,”’ she recalls. “That should have tipped me off to the type of person he was, but it didn’t.”

They met up again, and, as often happens with Shannen, it became very serious very quickly. She claims the mental abuse began soon afterward. ‘‘I was incredibly insecure,’’ she says. ‘‘He made me believe I was unattractive, that nobody else would be with me. And I believed all the bad things about myself he accused me of being. I was extremely lost. I'd never been in something this abusive.”’ (Factor suggests nothing anyone said could have made Shannen more insecure than she already was.)

And then there were the physical battles. The incident Shannen refers to most involves a time when she and Dean were driving in her Mercedes. He felt she was driving too fast and punched her. ‘‘Was I driving too fast?”’ she asks now. "No. Do I always drive a little fast? Yes. It’s probably why I've had my license suspended a few times. Does he know that? Yes. But do you punch somebody, not in the arm, but do you punch them full on, as hard as you possibly can, in the breast, to make them stop the car? No. And when they get out of the car, do you slap them in the face? No, you don’t do that. But that is what he did to me.”’

The final blow came in Hawaii. ‘‘Do you go to Hawaii with your girlfriend, tell her she’s no better than any of your ex-girlfriends, and then, when she tries to leave, slap her in the face, throw her down on the ground so she has a huge cut on her eye, and then take her by the hair and drag her across the rug so she has a huge bruise on her knee? I have a scar on my knee that will never go away.” She lifts up her pant leg to show her knee. “See?” she says, pointing to a faint mark. "That will never go away.”

The day before the alleged incident in Hawaii, Shannen had accepted Factor’s proposal of marriage. ‘‘It was very romantic,” she explains, as if this all makes sense. ‘‘But when I said ‘Yes,’ I knew I would never marry this person."

But she wore his ring, another large diamond. And she told people—her parents, her friend Tori Spelling—that she and Dean were officially engaged. A week later, she met Judd Nelson on the set of Blindfold, and they started an affair and Dean became a problem.

‘‘At the beginning of Blindfold,” she says, ‘‘there was no love for this person anymore. The only thing left was, really, fear. Fear and hate. And he started getting jealous that the film was taking up so much of my time. Dean repeatedly hid my keys from me so I would be late. He would lock himself in the bathroom, where my script was and my keys were, so I would be late for work. That’s when it really hit me, when it started affecting my career. I thought, That is wrong.” (Factor admits locking himself in the bathroom once, because he was "weary of the verbal assaults.’”)

The next big incident occurred after she moved into the Four Seasons. She went back to their house to pack up some of her stuff, and things got heated. She claims he closed a car door on her legs and she went nuts. "I snapped,” she recalls, admitting to her only act of nonvictim behavior. “‘In self-defense, I slapped him back and I kicked him in the leg. And that’s about all I did. But he wouldn’t let me go. And if somebody has both your arms and they’re hitting you, it’s like, well, what can you do? You can kick them. And you can try and hit them. And then you can try and run. The minute he released me, I did not hang around to beat him up. I jumped in my car and left. But no, no. I never tried to run over Dean, which is what he says. I am not a psychotic person.”’

Factor had large bruises on his legs and arms (which the police later photographed), and he says he was terrified. Afraid enough to file for a restraining order against Shannen. She found out about the order when she got back from Dallas, where she had gone for a few days with Judd. That trip itself was not without incident: Nelson was accused of "kicking a woman in the head’’ while he and Shannen were dining in a local restaurant. According to the newspaper account, Judd, who claims the kick was accidental, was enraged by the woman’s remarks regarding his floundering career.

When they returned, Shannen was horrified: the restraining order meant she couldn’t get her clothes, her furniture, anything in the house. ‘‘It went from me being the victim to me being the accused," she says, still outraged.

Lawyers were hired all around and statements were taken. Oddly enough, Shannen’s seem to have disappeared. “‘Somehow all that paperwork got mixed up,”’ she says. ‘‘My statement was never really put on the record. Even though I made it. And even though I signed it. Nothing was ever done with it.”’ She pauses, adopting her favorite pose, the embattled young star. ‘‘It comes down to a thing about a young actress who’s had a little bad press,” she says. ‘“They try and make an example of you. You know?’

She looks around her living room. "But I did get everything back,’’ she says, surveying her possessions. ‘‘His home is now completely empty. . . . Do you understand how trashed this place is going to get when I really unpack? It’s going to be completely mad. My mom is coming over, thank God, to clean. She’s brilliant at it. And she loves doing it. When Dean and I moved in together, Dean and I…” Her voice trails off. ‘‘I’ve got to stop doing that. I mean, enough.”

Dean Factor and his lawyer, Edwin Lasman, of Fowler & Lasman, are sitting in the conference room at the firm’s 19th-floor office in Century City. Factor is wearing jeans and a T-shirt, and he is very tan. He is remarkably calm considering Shannen’s accusations of mental and physical abuse. ‘‘Dean is a big sweet guy,’’ says a friend. ‘‘He’s as dangerous as a pat of butter.”

Factor stands by his story—that she pulled a gun on him, that she tried to run him over with the car, that he struck her only in self-defense, and the rest. He does, however, want to explain why he stayed with her, why he wanted to marry her. “‘It’s perplexing,’’ he admits. “‘After the gun incident, she called my mother on the phone. She said she was so sorry, that she wanted to seek therapy. And I asked her, a few days later, when she was going to see the therapist, and she said she wasn’t. She said, ‘I lied.’ But then she’d be really sweet and everything was fine. Then something would just snap.”’

Shannen denies that she apologized for the gun incident, which she claims never happened. She also maintains that she never said she’d seek therapy.

“I’m a very understanding person,’’ Factor continues. ‘‘And Shannen’s not that bad. I don’t think. Inside. I just think there’s a lot of external factors. . . .Let’s say I had rejected her and hurt her until she was going crazy. You know? But I don’t think it’s a malicious kind of thing.”’

And yet he did file a complaint, and he claims to still be scared. "I'm afraid I'll come home and Shannen will be in the driveway. And who knows what will happen?" He pauses. "I'd really just like to move on with my life. I don’t really understand any of this. It just. . . unraveled."

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by Michael Comte for the November 1993 issue of Vanity Fair.

Brat on a Hot Tin Roof (Part 1)

For Shannen Doherty, the brunette bad girl of Beverly Hills, 90210, hell is other people. In a few short years, she has sent two fiancés and various managers and flacks packing and earned a reputation as one of L.A.'s shortest fuses. But now the volatile actress, a television-size Elizabeth Taylor, wants to set the record straight, and she shares with LYNN HIRSCHBERG the perils of being a star.

She's difficult. She always was. She’s been acting since she was 10, offscreen and on, and she’s never, ever, been easy. "I can be difficult,” Shannen Doherty admits, with a trace of pride. ‘‘But I'm not crazy.” She is serious. Always. She was serious before she became the star of Beverly Hills, 90210, the teen soap opera that is one of the most popular shows on the Fox network, but fame has made her even more serious. There is no irony or humor in Shannen’s perception of Shannen. She feels, she says, abused. By the press. By the public. And, most of all, by her ex-boyfriends. "Don’t judge me for who I am,’’ she says, ‘‘because everybody makes mistakes.’’

She drags on her Camel. She is very small, but she affects a tough look, that bad-girl-in-high-school thing that makes her so tabloid-appealing. Shannen has on jeans and motorcycle boots and a vintage black bowling shirt that reads, MIKE. Her straight black hair hangs down past her shoulders and she’s wearing no makeup. Her most notable feature is her eyes, which are distinctly uneven—the left one is a good quarter-inch higher than the right. Despite this Cubist touch, Shannen’s face is particularly inexpressive. She doesn’t smile much; she doesn’t emote. Shannen is still.

At the moment, she is tucked into an overstuffed armchair in the dining room of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. She’s been living here for the past three months, checked in under the alias Doobie Love, a moniker that seems to thrill her. Her new boyfriend, Judd Nelson, picked the name for her. "I like it,” she says giddily. "People have to call up and ask for ‘Doobie’ or they won’t get me.”’

She’s been staying at the Four Seasons ever since her relationship with Dean Factor, her latest fiancé (there has been at least one other), blew up. It was a particularly messy relationship—full of big dramatic fights, screaming accusations, and high-priced lawyers. Allegedly, Shannen pulled a gun on Dean, tried to run him over with her car, and threatened to have him sodomized on his front lawn. Or so he claims. She says he verbally abused her, closed a car door on her legs, and slugged her repeatedly. And nearly all of this was before she accepted his proposal of marriage.

But their love was not fated to last. It is gone now, replaced by a legal restraining order (his) stating that she cannot go within 100 yards of him. ‘“Which is fine by me,” says Shannen, looking rather blank. "I’m thinking of getting my own restraining order."

This is only the latest and most lurid chapter in the Shannen Chronicles, an ongoing study in how to become notorious. In the last two years alone, Shannen has been in a barroom brawl; has fired two managers, one of whom is threatening to sue her for thousands of dollars he claims she owes him; and has fired a publicist, who is also reportedly owed money. She is rumored to owe money to the I.R.S., has been in serious debt to American Express and a bank, and recently lost two endorsements, including Gitano jeans, because of her bad-girl ways.

She’s very calm about all this, refuting the charges point by point, chain-smoking throughout. She left one manager because ‘‘I despise people who lie,” left another ‘‘because the chemistry wasn’t there.”’ According to her, she doesn’t owe the money, didn’t write the bad checks, didn’t start the fights.

Today, except for the Dean thing, the details of her infamy are not important to her. She’s interested in how her image projects—the overall effect is what matters. ‘‘She has an Elizabeth Taylor complex,’” explains Darren Star, the creator and executive producer of Beverly Hills, 90210. "She has a sense of herself, a very strong sense of her own destiny. What's amazing is how much she’s realized it. She’s been able to parlay her visibility in a TV show to this extreme.’’

Still, things have gotten a little out of hand lately even for Shannen, who, at 22, is only beginning to understand that actions have consequences. ‘‘I’ve lost weight and I’ve been smoking a lot,”’ she says, lighting up another cigarette. “This is a really bad confession on my part, but one of the reasons why I started smoking is because I didn’t like my voice and I wanted it lower. Much sexier and lower. Raspier.”” She smiles guiltily. Anything for art.

She does look tired, but her manner is focused, energetic, especially when the subject is Shannen. She’s been working nonstop, having just finished two features back-to-back: Blindfold, co-starring Judd Nelson, and Resurrection. *‘I had four days off,”’ she says with a sigh, ‘‘and started back on the series.’ Tomorrow she is checking out of the hotel and moving into her new rented house way up in the Hollywood Hills, and she’s eager to get her life in order, to put all this craziness behind her.

Most of all, she wants to be viewed in a new light; she wants to be taken seriously. ‘“You know,”’ she says, "when people talk about Meryl Streep, they don’t delve into her personal life. They wish they could, but they don’t. I think they have such incredible respect for her acting that they leave her alone. My goal is to be very similar to that, that when my name comes up it’s not about ‘Oh, Shannen got in another, you know, fight at a bar.' ” She takes a puff and considers her position. ‘‘Being notorious, yeah, it’s great for some things,’” she says. ‘‘But it’s also bad for others. I just wish I was notorious in a much better sense. Like Meryl. That would be nice.”’

Shannen stands up. ‘“You know,” she says as she picks up her cigarettes, ‘‘always having to watch yourself is a major drag. Watch what you say, watch what you do. You know, when all you really want to do is, like, be a 22-year-old girl and live your life and do what you love doing, which is acting.” She puts her hand on her hip. “But I guess it comes with the territory. And I’m dealing with it.”’

Shannen is waiting in front of the Four Seasons for the attendant to bring up her truck from the parking lot. “‘I have two cars,’’ she explains. “A black Mercedes and a Porsche Carrera 4. It’s a beautiful car. And now I have this truck.”” She pauses a second. The Chevy Suburban is actually the property of Beverly Hills, 90210—she has simply borrowed it for a week or so—but Shannen looks at most everything as if she owns it, so now this is her truck. "I like this truck because Dean doesn’t know it. If I see him when I’m driving, he won’t know it’s me.”’ She stares for a second. ‘‘He won’t see me at all.’’

She says this with a mix of spite, petulance, and I-am-Sheena-hear-me-roar bravado, which is the way she always speaks when she speaks about the men in her life. Men. It’s really the men that seem to gum up Shannen’s game plan. They're always getting in Shannen’s way, pushing her around, trying to change her. Managers, agents, producers—but especially boyfriends. They fall in love with her, convinced she’s sweet and serene, young and innocent, with just a beguiling touch of wildness. But then they start to tinker, to make suggestions: if only she could alter this personality twist, keep that one in check, then she would be a truly great girl. They try and they fail. Changing Shannen does not work.

But they persist: they cling to the possibilities. "She has a lot of charm,” insists her ex-manager Mike Gursey, ‘‘but she’s a pathological liar. . . . I’ve never seen her use drugs, but she has a coke mentality. She feels above anything. She feels she can do anything to anyone. She doesn’t see anything wrong with the things she does." (She, of course, doesn’t agree with this.)

And yet Gursey, who is threatening to sue Shannen, would take her back. “‘I thought I could change her,”’ he confesses. “‘I'd still like to give it another shot.”” He pauses. "I had unconditional love for her. That was my mistake."

Well, maybe, but Shannen’s appeal to men is something of a phenomenon. In L.A. especially, there are prettier girls, sexier girls, smarter girls, but she has, it would seem, a mysterious allure. ‘‘She’s sort of dirty,”” says someone who has worked with her, ‘‘but she doesn’t seem to know it. She looks like you could do anything to her, ask her to do anything to you, and she would. She looks both willing and willful.��

This trait seems to attract a certain kind of guy. "It seems to be the norm for me to hook up with really bad men,” says Shannen. “How do I find them? That's the true question. They just come out of the woodwork. They're really gross.”’

She moved in with her first boyfriend, whom she will not name, when she was 18. She had been living with some girlfriends, and before that in the Valley with her parents—her mother works as a receptionist in a Beverly Hills nail-and-waxing salon, and her father is a semi-retired business-man. Shannen spent her teens acting in commercials and on dramatic shows (Shannen has no flair for comedy). At 11, she landed a role on Little House on the Prairie, and then, when that series ended, she co-starred for two years on Our House, where she reportedly feuded with Deidre Hall, the star of the show, who played her mom.

Between Our House and Beverly Hills, 90210, Shannen met her first boyfriend. "He was a total jerk,” she says. ‘‘He was, like, 35. He carried himself very well and he was older and I was like, oh, yeah, O.K. He was pretty cool when I first met him. But then his true colors came through. I moved in and that’s when I discovered his job, for instance. The type of person he was, which was not what you would classify as a good citizen. He sold things. Let’s just say that. He sold things that are extremely illegal. And that was a pretty rough lifestyle for me, because it was my first time out.”’

After three months, Shannen left. She seems to have decided that this short stint was her only debauched period. The only time she took drugs (cocaine, principally), the only time she was wild in the clubs, the only time she lived the life others claim she’s been living all along. Only for those three months. And only because of this guy. ‘‘He corrupted me,’’ she explains.

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People June 14th 1993

Shannen Doherty's Wild Ways May Be Hazardous to Her—and Her Career

I was weary of the verbal assaults and locked myself in our bathroom. At this point she threatened to shoot me and said, "I'm going to drop you!" I knew she had a loaded 9-mm automatic…. I heard the chamber pulled back; at that point, I hastily exited the house through a back door connected to the bathroom and escaped. —From a May 25 petition by Dean Jay Factor in the Superior Court of California for a domestic-violence restraining order against Shannen Doherty

The scenario sounds like something from Top Cops, not Beverly Hills, 90210, but then actress Shannen Doherty, 22—who in America's favorite zip code plays prototypical teen Brenda Walsh—has always marched to a dangerous drummer. Partying late into the night at trendy L.A. clubs such as Roxbury and the Gate and piloting her $30,000 black BMW at high speeds through nearby streets, she has defiantly winked at her bad-girl reputation. "Don't believe everything you read," she coyly told fans during a May 26 TV interview. "To paraphrase Mark Twain, half the things you read about me are untrue, and the others are lies.

Now, however, attitude alone may prove a flimsy defense. Last week Doherty was facing not a hyperbolic tabloid headline but the sworn testimony of former fiancé Factor, 28, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune. And his charges made the tantrum-prone 5'2", 100-lb. Doherty sound violent if not downright homicidal. By midweek, according to Factor's attorney, Edwin Lasman, an understanding had been reached with Doherty in which his client's differences with her were resolved, eliminating the need for further court proceedings. An announcement of the agreement was expected by the week's end.

Still, the allegations in Factor's 15-page declaration remain deeply disturbing. Once, Doherty tried to run him down with a car, Factor claimed. Another time, he said, she threw a log through a window to get into his house. During one argument, he maintained, she "threatened to hire a few guys to beat me up and to sodomize me 'on the front lawn.' " He ended his petition by saying that even though he was taking steps to prevent harassment, "I will live in fear."

Others say they are afraid for Doherty. They believe she is a young woman on the verge of spinning out of control—and that she may be a harmful influence on Tori Spelling, 20, who plays 90210's Donna Martin (and whose father, Hollywood megamogul Aaron Spelling, is the show's executive producer). Tori lately has been engaging in the kind of hard partying and public pugnacity that has given Doherty her bad-girl reputation.

For a time, her rep looked like a stellar career play for Doherty. It meant publicity (even in the form of a nationally circulated I Hate Brenda newsletter, a thinly disguised jab at the actress herself). And Doherty willingly parried the insinuations about her behavior. She denied in interviews that she had an alcohol problem and told one reporter, "I don't hit people. I wasn't hit as a child, and I don't believe in it." Not denying her aggressiveness, she offered in her own defense a favorite line from her preteen days as Jenny Wilder on Little House: A New Beginning. "Michael Landon," she said, "told me you have to stick up for yourself in this business."

What would Landon think now? Since debuting on 90210 in 1990, Doherty has left a trail of bad debts, trashed homes, exhausted friendships and wasted relationships. When challenged, say several people who know her, she is likely to respond with a menacing, "You don't know who you're f—ing with!"

Apparently, Dean Factor learned who and wishes he hadn't. Neither Doherty nor her attorney, Joseph D'Onofrio, responded to PEOPLE's repeated requests for an interview. Speaking in his daughter's defense, Shannen's father, Tom Doherty, 49, an L.A. mortgage adviser, offers a different spin. "He's been doing [the abusing]," says Doherty. "He initialed the charge, but she's the victim."

Indeed, in a confrontation between the 5'10", 175-lb. Factor and Doherty, it is hard to imagine Shannen as anything but a victim. And yet Factor swears that lie was usually on the receiving end. At times, he admits in his petition, he slapped her. Once he threw her into his swimming pool. He says he was acting in self-defense—a claim many who know Doherty are inclined to believe.

"I could have predicted this before it happened," says Doherty's previous ex-fiancé, Chris Foufas, 25, a Chicago-based health-club owner who was engaged to the star in 1991. "Things move along smoothly for a while, and then something snaps and she goes into another drive: rage."

Until March 19, when Doherty moved into Factor's $5,200-a-month rented Tudor-style house in the Hollywood Hills, all seemed relatively smooth. "We did not have more than the occasional loud argument," Factor says. On April 19, with 90210 on hiatus, Doherty began work on the set of a movie, the suspense thriller Blindfold. A senior crew member on the movie calls her behavior "cantankerous, snotty and threatening" and says Doherty told everyone on the set how she and Factor "were constantly fighting, saying how she punched him and he hit her." And then, he adds, "the thing with Nelson began."

In Blindfold, Doherty, who does her first onscreen nude scenes, plays a patient who becomes sexually involved with her psychiatrist—portrayed by Brat Pack graduate Judd Nelson, 33. Shortly after shooting began, Doherty began an offscreen romance with Nelson, even though she was still living with Factor. Right after a read-through of the Blindfold script in early April, Factor and Doherty began a vacation together in Hawaii on April 12. They were accompanied by Spelling and Nick Savalas, 20, son of actor Telly Savalas, Tori's boyfriend of several months. During the trip, said Factor in his petition, "we took full advantage of the romantic setting." He proposed marriage—and Doherty accepted. But within hours, they were fighting. "Shannen came back with a black eye and said she'd been hit by a surfboard," says her dad. "In reality he'd hit her." Factor's version in his declaration: "After having been kicked and beaten, I pushed her off me. Unfortunately she tripped, fell and cut her eye on the doorstep." What were they arguing about? "Judd Nelson," speculated the senior Doherty. "Dean felt she was fooling around with him."

Over the next few weeks, Factor said he pleaded with Doherty to continue their engagement. But on May 13, some days after Doherty moved out, said Factor, she returned and yet another fight ensued. The next day he filed a complaint with the LAPD. He said in his deposition, "I decided the nonsense had to end."

For Doherty, though, it was just beginning. That same night she checked into Dallas's exclusive Mansion on Turtle Creek—with Judd Nelson. The couple went out for some midnight club-hopping. Gus Hudson, manager of the Greenville Bar & Grill in Dallas, noticed on that evening that Doherty "was drinking heavily" and that "she puked at her table." The next night, back at the Greenville, Nelson was taunted by several young people about his recent lack of good movie parts. When he tried to climb over a railing to argue, he kicked 21-year-old Kim Evans in the nose—unintentionally, he says. Evans left the bar with minor injuries, and Nelson was eventually charged with assault. The case is pending.

As Chris Foufas sees it, his ex-fiancée's bar-and mate-hopping follows a familiar pattern. "Shannen can be a great, wonderful, loving person," he says. "But she wants to be a dictator. Shannen gets people to commit to her and then says, 'See ya!' She is like a kid who wants a toy, gets it and then gets tired of it."

Over the past year she has amassed a lot of toys—at heavy cost. After she broke up with Foufas, for example, she went on a $45,000 shopping spree. Previously the California United Bank, which often tolerates celebrity overdrafts up to $100,000, had filed suit in May last year because Doherty had not repaid $31,628.16 in bad checks written in 1991. The Superior Court of California awarded the bank a 25 percent levy against her $17,500-a-week 90210 paycheck—which will be raised to $22,500 when shooting resumes July 7. Says bank attorney Andy Alper: "We were lucky we were first in line."

Apparently. Still waiting for payment are Doherty's former publicist, Susan Culley, ex-manager Mike Gursey and former landlord Mark Nishimura, who claims Doherty owes $14,000 in unpaid lease fees. Reportedly two of Shannen's leased Mercedeses have been repossessed.

Why the seeming inability to control her spending? "It's a power thing, to prove her worth," says a former friend. But Shannen, who started acting in Pepsi commercials at age 10, has helped the Doherty clan (including her mother, Rosa, who works at an L.A. beauty salon, and her older brother, Sean, 26, a political volunteer). "She's too generous," thinks her dad. "Your cash flow just dries up."

Ultimately, of course, Aaron Spelling governs that spigot, and an insider says he is looking to dump Doherty from 90210. Though she has 28 episodes left in her contract, Doherty's onscreen time next season may be minimized if Brenda leaves for college in Minnesota. But Spelling is concerned more for his daughter than his series. Tori has moved out of her family's 100-plus-room Holmby Hills mansion. Over the last month she and Savalas have been spotted engaged in loud arguments in several L.A. hot spots. Says Roxbury doorman Todd Spenla of their relationship: "Tori is always unhappy for some reason." Notes the insider: "With Tori getting caught up in [Shannen's lifestyle] now, Aaron is beside himself as a father."

Given Doherty's long-standing reputation—not likely to be enhanced by Factor's allegations—losing 90210 could cripple her career. Shannen, her father hopes, may be getting the message. "It's disheartening for her," says Tom of the adverse publicity. "A little of the life, a little of the spirit is out of her. She's just gelling over the shell shock." Then he adds meaningfully, "She's beginning to understand things too."

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1992 Beautiful Shannen Doherty by Lance Staedler for US magazine, Los Angeles.

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by David Factor for Hit Krant magazine, uknown issue or details.

I'm thinking maybe I misspelled the photographer's name on my files and is Davis Factor? Any ideas? (also I love her dress).

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by Davis Factor for the April 23, 1993 issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring her on the cover.

I love how she always took the bad things with a great sense of humour...

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1993 - Shannen Doherty portrayed by Davis Factor for the April 23, 1993 issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring her on the cover.

Celebrity Hell

SHANNEN DOHERTY FEELS THE BURN

90210's fallen angel wants to heal her singed reputation. We show her (and other bedeviled stars) how to climb the stairway to heaven

By Lisa Schwartzaum.

THE CAREER CHALLENGES facing Shannen Doherty are these: How can she convince a skeptical public that she is not the tantrum-throwing prima donna, impoverished spendthrift, and out- of-control Hollywood headache that a barrage of reports in the higher and lower echelons of journalistic enterprise have made her out to be? How can the young star of Beverly Hills, 90210 redeem Brenda Walsh, her TV character, from the purgatory into which she has descended, wan and bereft of her broody boyfriend, Dylan McKay, and mocked by former fans who once loved wholesome Brenda but who now, at the end of the show's third season, hate her for her moody, goody-goody, expensively dressed ways? How can the small, pale, 22-year-old Southern Baptist from Memphis, Tenn., get everybody off her case?

For starters, she can settle in with a plate of french fries and a pack of Marlboro Lights and a cup of cappuccino and start confessing. About her money troubles. About how she knows she truly ought to stop smoking, since cancer runs in her family and the habit is turning her teeth yellow and will eventually make her fine skin look old. She can roast the old anti-Shannen chestnuts: that she slugged a woman in a bar; that she pitches fits to such an extent that she appeared as a joke in last week's Doonesbury. She can accept some blame.

Which is what she did – just as 90210 began its three-month spring hiatus this month and shortly before she left for a week's Hawaiian vacation with her live-in boyfriend, photo-studio owner Dean Factor, 28 (of the Max Factor cosmetics family), and with friend and 90210 classmate Tori Spelling, 19, and her beau, would-be actor Nick Savalas, 19. (Also planned for the break: starting work on Blindfold, a feature starring Judd Nelson; and attending a Grateful Dead concert.)

In fact, Shannen Doherty – who first found fame a decade ago on TV's Little House on the Prairie and went on to torment Winona Ryder as a bitchy high school snob in the 1989 film Heathers – talked and talked and talked, as if her career depended on it. And now we talk back, with a tailor-made image-rehab plan for the woman who inspired The I Hate Brenda Newsletter: (Will Brenda go to the University of Minesota and be written out of the series next season? Get real.)

If you can't pay cash, you can't afford it. On the one hand, Doherty admits to running up major bills (some reports put her debt at over $36,000). On the other hand, Doherty says she's paying it off – and insists she's no pauper. "I'm really fed up with people printing how much I make, especially when they get it wrong," she says. "I do not make $12,000 a week. I make a lot more money than $12,000 a week. But I'm in the highest tax bracket, and I have, you know, attorneys to pay for. And, granted, I have gone on shopping binges. When you're young and all you know is how much money you make a week, you don't necessarily start thinking about, you know, everything that comes out of it." Splitting the rent on the Beverly Hills Cape Cod-style house she now shares with Factor will cut expenses, but there's still $13,000 in dispute on her former house, which the landlord claims is owed as back rent and which Doherty claims represents the security deposit and lease option owed to her. "I didn't get thrown out of my house," she says defiantly. "Otherwise I wouldn't still have the keys." The case is currently being litigated. Limiting herself to one Mercedes instead of two will also save a bit, although reports that several cars have been repossessed is just exhaust, she says. She authorized the repo of a 500 SL she had leased for an ex-boyfriend ("a car that I wasn't even driving, and for somebody that I wasn't even going out with"). "If I had all these problems with my leasing company, why am I able to drive around in a Mercedes that I leased through them right now?" Doherty challenges. "If I had all these financial problems, there's absolutely no way in hell a bank would finance an $80,000 car."

2. The Donna Reed routine is refreshing. Keep it up. "My boyfriend and I are both sort of through with doing the night-club scene and partying and drinking," says Doherty, who has often been photographed carousing (usually with Spelling and accompanying escorts) at L.A.'s trendy club, Roxbury. "Clubbing was a big part of me, but I think it's because I was a little lost. I was young and under a lot of pressure and unhappy in my personal relationship. I don't have that problem anymore." She now describes an idyllic life of cooking chicken dinners with Factor and playing with her three dogs. Staying home should help her bottom line, too: After she made headlines like BRAWLING STARLET BUSTED last December for tangling at Roxbury with lesser-known actress Bonita Money (charges were eventually dropped), she says she lost at least three product-endorsement deals.

3. Shock your public: Say you're sorry! "I will grant that in the first season, I was not the most diplomatic person. But I did not throw temper tantrums. I went days and days and days without having a fit! Weeks!" says Doherty, with a laugh. "You know, right now I feel very much in control. Besides," she adds, more wishful, perhaps, than sure, "there are a lot of people out there who are getting very, very sick of Brenda bashing. People come up to me and go, like, 'We thought you'd be a bitch, we just wanted to come up and see if you were or weren't. And you're not." (The 90210 cast, having offered supportive comments in the past, is now tired of being asked about her; Doherty's recently fired publicist gives a terse "no comment" on her former client.)

4. Lighten up. That goes for Shannen and Brenda. Doherty is deeply steamed about the jokey one-shot I Hate Brenda Newsletter, which rode a wave of anti-Brenda/Shannen sentiment and showered considerable media attention on its two young creators. "It's ridiculous," she says, non-temper flaring, "that two girls, wherever they are, are so incredibly jealous of one person who happens to be on TV and are so desperate for publicity that they would create lies." But she can see how one might think Brenda is a pill. "The [90210] writers and I have had this conversation," she says. "Let's make her not quite so pathetic, let's have her mellow out.' And that is happening. You'll see Brenda spiritually become a little bit of a stronger person." (Of late, Brenda is looking spiritually subdued: humble in washed-out lipstick tones and more modestly dressed.)

5. Do not do that Playboy pictorial. She's thinking about it, negotiating with the magazine over how much of her body she'd expose. "They offered me a very large sum of money – over $300,000 – which I think anybody would have a very hard time turning down," she explains. "Besides, it might make people say, hey, she's not Brenda Walsh, she is Shannen Doherty, and she can play a lot older than 17 and high school." We repeat: Don't do it. If you pose, you will share that undistinguished honor with Mimi Rogers. La Toya Jackson. Joan Collins. Vanna White. And you'll never, ever win back Dylan McKay.

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Beautful Shannen Doherty portrayed by Lou Salvatore for the March 1993 issue of US magazine in which she was the covergirl.

I love this photoshot session but there seems to not to be HQ versions of the photos anywhere. I'd like to buy a copy to scan them and enlarge them (I think these scans may come from Dianna's website shannen-doherty.net?)

I tried to enhance some of them but I am not happy with the result, but I share them anyway. Maybe lovely Shando Strong Instagram can enhance them better than me? Hopefully? She does great improvements!

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March 1993 - US magazine

Interview by Margy Rochin, photos by Lou Salvatore.

The Us Interview: Shannen Doherty (part 3)

(Part 1 – Part 2)

While we're on the subject of high-profile men, let's run through some names of people you've been linked with romantically. Marky Mark?

I went out with Mark two times, with a group of people, as friends.

Jason Priestley? 'US' printed a photo of you two liplocked after the 1991 Emmys.

Really kissing?No, Jason and I probably kissed each other, but I don0t think it was really kissing. I don't think there was any saliva involved. People might get confused because we're very affectionate with one another and that's only because we absolutely adore each other.

You were engaged to a young man named Chris Foufas. What happened?

Idecided that I was too young to get married. Chris is a great person who I love as a friend very much. I think our friendship overtook the romance, and we both weren't ready for that step.

What's the first sign that you know you're in live?

I'll do absolutely anything for that person. If somebody pointed a gun at them, I'd throw muself in front so they wouldn't die. I can forgive the person that I've been dating recently, I feel the exact same way for.

His name is –

I'd rather prefer that no names be mentioned. He knows who he is.

What's the most painful lesson you're learned about romantic love?

Oh, I don't know, I've been through so much in that department... I think the lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me,and I've had nothing. I'd stopped talking to my friends. You can't do that. You've got to say, "I've got my own life, my own identity." I think guys in relationships can be so much more casual than women.

You've gotten a lot of flak for leading the Pledge of Allegiance at the Republican National Convention. What attracted you to the Republican Party?

Without getting too much into it, because I realize at this point it's probably beat to keep my politics to myself...

Wait a second. Don't you think that you made your politivs public when you decided to attend the convention?

The thing is that this is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their politivcal beliefs. We're all allowed to have our own opinons... I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous. I still think [Bush has] been a good president. I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Do you think that some people might have taken issue with the fact that you were a young female supporting a party that had not proven itself to be particularly pro-woman?

I don't think that the Republican Party is against women. I don't know how George Bush personally feels on abortion. I have some idea and, from what I understand, he isn't really opposed to abortion. However, the Republican platform was therefore he had to conform to what they wanted.

So you're saying that you're pro-choice?

I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone, whether it be a woman or a man. I think some people are somewhat worried because abortion is legal, it's so easy. It's just like, "Oh, it's no big deal because I can just go get an abortion." That's not really being a very responsible person. But I don't think that that choice should be taken away from anybody. I'm definitely pro-choice.

In a readers poll in a recent issue of 'Sassy' magazine, you beat Roseanne Arnold and Tori Spelling as "TV Actress Whose Inner Child Is Most Wounded." What do you think thia award says about who they think you are?

I have absolutely no idea. My inner child is not wounded.

Wait. I'm not sure you understand the term correctly. The definition of an inner child might be that everyone has a public self and a true authentic self, which is still inside of us, that was developed when we were a child.

Then maybe it's true. If there is such a thing as an inner child, I don't see how anybody could have so much bad press and not have their inner child wounded. But I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

What approach do you use to slough off bad press?

I think you're constantly telling yourself you'll ignore it, you'll let it roll off your back, you won't let it affect you – but it does. You read stuff about yourself and you just think, "My God, where are these people coming up with these things? And why am I the one that they're picking on, all of a sudden? Out of all people, why me?" I'm the person who stops and gives any homeless person any money that they want. So if does affect you, but you just have to keep believing in yourself, I guess.

Why should we like you?

I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Everybody is more than welcome to have their own opinion. All I'm saying is give me a chance before you form that opinion. [Pause] It sounds really weird to give you a list of why people should like me. Like tooting your own horn. I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see; I'm the best friend a person could ever have; I'm very compassionate; I try and helppeople out as much as possible; I really care about this world, about the people in it, and I just want what's best for everyone; I take on absolutely everybody's problems and take care of everyone – I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very norma,, down-to-earth person, and if people meet me, they agree. They're like, "Wow, you're nothing like people say you are..."

What is the most ridiculous thing you've read about yourself?

That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous. There's so many things, I don't know where to start. I've had so much happen that it's hard to trust people.

There's something that's been bothering me throughout our conversation, and that is the assigning of blame to other people. How responsible do you feel for what has happened to you? Be numerically specific.

I probably feel fifteen percent responsible. In my first year on the show – which was two-and-a-half years ago – I was overwhelmed by so much responsibility and pressure that I didn't handle things in a very diplomatic manner. I took everything to heart. That hasn't happened since the first year of the show, and it's just now coming back to me. I've learned to be very diplomatic. Now it's just like a tidal wave. It's people either needing money,so they sell stories to the Enquirer, or they're jealous of me so they sell storues, or people just making up bulls---. So it is just a tidal wave of things happening and happenning and happening that I don't feel very responsible for.

Delta Burke once said, "I wouldn't be producing if it weren't for bad press." Is this the upside to your situation?

I got the opportunity to meet Delta Burke – we did a literacy show at the White House forMr. Bush. She told me, "Just do what you believe in. Look at me: I have my own TV show now and I deal with nice people, that's what it's all about." So that's sort of what I'm doing at this point, I'm learning.

What's the biggest lesson that you've learned?

To... be... very... clear. To be diplomatic, and to be very careful. There is so much focus on you that you can't just do and say whatever you feel. You have to watch everything that you do and everything that you say.

Have you learned to apologize?

I will apologize if I've done something wring. But if I have not done something wrong, I will not apologize.

Would you give up your notoriety for a little bit of slack?

Yeah, I would. If that means quit acting,no. If it means staying home,better believe it! I'll lock myself in my house for a little slack.

Do you feel the tide is turning for or against you at this point?

Probably against.

You think it's going to get worse?

I don't know how much worse it can get.

What were some of your New Year's resolutions?

Quit smoking. [Takes a drag] Going real well. Get healthy. [Pauses] And somehow turn this thing around.

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March 1993 - US magazine

Interview by Margy Rochin, photos by Lou Salvatore.

The Us Interview: Shannen Doherty (part 2)

(Part 1)

Earlier, you mentioned the Emmys. Why did you drop out at the last minute?

I didn't. I dropped out Saturday morning at the rehearshal [*MY NOTE: The Emmys took place on Sunday, August 30, 1992]. The [script] that I got was different than the [script] that was there. Also, I felt that considering Fox was doing the Emmys, our whole cast should have been there. The cast was not given tickets. Even Aaron Spelling wasn't going. And my representatives had their problems... They cae to me after rehearshal and said, "We really feel like we should take you out of the Emmys," I said, "It's going to cause a huge stink." And they said, "We'll deal with it." And I said, "I hired you guys to make decisions, so fine, I'll go with your decision."

And were you satisfied with how they dealt with it?

Well, there's only so much that you can do. People hit the press right away and lie about you. What can you say? The director, whatever his name is – I've never met him in my entire life – made this statement that I'm this terriblelady and that I was jealous that I didn't have enough lines. I had plenty of lines; that wasn't the problem at all.

In fact, what people said was that you were angered by the decision to let '90210' costar Jennie Garth deliver the first lines of the award presentation.

No [laughs]. I have no problems with Jennie, despite what people think.

Her recent behavior on 'Arsenio' would indicate otherwise.

What did she say?

It was more about what she did't say. When asked about you, her response was primarily made up of well-times pauses.

Jennie was afraid that I would be upset with her... But you can only defend somebody so much. From what I understand, she just felt cornered and very flustered. I totally understand where she was coming from. It's like [the 90210 cast members] don't know what to say anymore.

If you were a talk-show host, how would you handle it?

Get over it and say, "Hey,let's give this girl a shot. Let's give her a chance." Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask. Like: "Don't believe what you're reading about me. Let me prove to you what I'm like."

Let's return to your relatioship with your '90210' costars. What about the persistent talk of friction between you and Luk Perry? One incident, for example, involved you threateing to sue Perry for sexual harassment during,of all things, a punch-fight that escalated out of control.

[Dry laugh] You get so sick of the bulls--- that people make uo. Obviously at this point, I don't care what people think.

Is the story true or false?

False. Luke and I get along. When you have a big cast, you have problems. Everybody argues, but we're like brothers and sisters, and we all make up. We all love each other. Tori and I are really good friends. Jennie and I are friends. Jason and I hang out. But other people aren0t able to come to our set and observe us, so they don't really see how well we actually do get along. [Laughs] My God, the things that [they say] I've done! Supposedly, I wash my hair with Evian water. Like I would ever wash my hair with Evian water! For one, how do you get your hair totally clean that way? Do you por a bottle over your head? I mean, I jump in the shower like every other human being. It's just stupid.

Okay, you answered the Evian rumor. What about the rumor that you spalled several of the makeup people on the TV movie 'Obsessed'?

[Shocked] Which makeup people? No. And, as a matter of fact, I'd me more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I wored with. I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people, for very simple reasons: [a] I don't want to be sued, and [b] I was never hit as a child. I don't believe in hitting, period.

It's true that you've been approached by 'Playboy' magazine?

That's true. Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it – that's completely false. It's not a dead deal yet. They're [Playboy] pretty cool. Very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don't want to do – that you're shy about certain things, that you don't want to show full breasts or whatever – and there are no arguments about it. I just don't know if it's the right time in my career to do it. There's so much bad press, is it really a good time to do a Playboy shoot?

In America, beauty is something that you can purchase. If you have the money, you can resculpt yourself. Is that something that you condone?

I personally have never had anything done. I've been asked [if I had] breast implants. I don't feel it's worth my time to even comment on it. Whether I did or not, it's absolutely nobody's business but my own. But I feel that if somebody wants to have [plastic surgery], more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard. Imean, there's something so beautiful about women when there's aging. Crow's-feet, I think, are one of the most beautiful things on women. I know this sounds totally nuts, but I'm getting them and I'm psyched. I also love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive. I have a scar here [points to the bridge of her nose], I have a scar right by my eyebrow, and I dig 'em.

Have you read the 'I hate Brenda Newsletter'?

No. [Weak smile] I just read about it today in the new US magazine. [Pause] "I hate Brenda" – that's not me, that's my character. And I agree, I don0t like my character. And the only people to turn to is our writers. They should probably read this newsletter. I don't think she's written properly. I would like for them to make her a little bit more believable – not quite as sappy or bitchy or whatever.

One particularly mesmerizing item in the 'I Hate Brenda Newsletter' concerns Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. He talks about your attemps to contact him. Do you know anything about this?

[Laughs] I think I was going to the MTV Music Awards and I was trying to figure out who I should take. So I said to my publicist, "I have a crush on Eddie Vedder." I've never met him, but I think he's extremely talented and very good-looking. I don't know one woman who wouldn't want the opportunity to [meet him]. So I guess my publicist called his publicist, and it turns out that he's been with the same girl for, like, seven years, which I think is great. It was dropped, and that was the end of it.

In his version of the story, he says that you were staying at the same hotel in San Diego and invested quite a bit of energy in attempting to phone him.

I don't think so! Did he really say that? That's pretty tacky. From what I understand, he wasn't even staying at the same hotel. My makeup artist was actually the one who was trying to get hold of him, because she has a crush on him, too [laughs]. But I didn0t try to call up his room or anything. Even if I did, it would make me a very normal girl. The sad part is that he felt like he had to lie and pump his ego by saying I did that. I just think he sould have been flattered that I even wanted to meet with him at the MTV Awards, and left it at that. [Pause] My crush is now over.

(Part 3)

[shannendoherty-fans]

March 1993 - US magazine

Interview by Margy Rochin, photos by Lou Salvatore.

The Us Interview: Shannen Doherty (part 1)

Brawling brat or maligned innocent? Amid a stinging backlash, the '90210' actress defends her reputation.

THOSE WHO WANT TO believe the worst about TV star Shannen Doherey might enjoy her split-second screen debut in 1982's Night Shift when she brained a nebbishy Henry Winkler with a box of cookies. But sho much brouhaha has surrounded the Memphis-born actress of late that most seem to forget her existence pre-Beverly Hills, 90210. By the time the former child actress landed at the Fox network, she'd already wound her way through television series like Little House: A New Beginning and Our House as well as several film roles, including Heathers. In it, Doherty seemed to be polishing up her signature moves — the imperial flounciness, the unexpected flashes of vulnerability, the narrowing of her hazel eyes to show when she is seriously ticked off. All these mannerisms would later resurface in her breakthrough role as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210.

At this point, everyone knows that Brenda and her cute twin brother, Brandon (Jason Priestley), started out as 90210’s moral center, two do-gooding émigrés from Minneapolis, drifting through a high school hallway full of “indulged brats and future Zsa Zsas,” as the Los Angeles Tinies put it. But the centrifugal force of every evening soap is a dark-hearted character. And somewhere along the way, the baton was passed to Doherty.

Soon enough, Brenda’s perky mood had curdled (although ar least one 90210 writer would suggest that it wasn’t the dialogue, but the flinty backspin Doherty put on her lines). Lately, television watchers have wearied of watching her behave like a sourpuss. So much so that two enterprising, young pop-culture hounds tapped into the zeitgeist and published an underground antifanzine, the I Hate Brenda Newsletter, consisting mostly of semiasthentic-sounding gossip about Doherty's real-life excesses.

The American public seers to forgive ungovernable male stars, but has lite tolance for obstreperous women; Roseanne Arnold, Cher and Cybill Shepherd could have told Doherty that. And almost from the very beginning, word had filtered back from the 90210 set that Doherty was an unapologetic headache — demanding and prone to temperamental outbursts. Offstage, her reviews weren't much beter. There was her last-minute walk from the 1992 Emmys, for which Emmy producer and director Walter Miller crowned her “a colossal pain in the ass".

Some flip remarks of hers on The Dennis Miller Show cost her months’ worth of monologue put-downs. Last summer, those many liberals among her 90210 following her were aghast to discover her, hand over heart, leading the Pledge of Allegiance at the Republican National Convention. She followed that with a well-publicized fracas involving Bonita Money, an sping actress, at a Los Angeles nightclub. Even Doerty wasn't surprised when the utterance of her name at the 1992 Billboard Music Awards elicited boos from the audience.

Yes, it’s true that Brenda wins back her whispery-voiced ex-boyfriend Dylan (Luke Perry). Yet the word on the Fox lot was that Aaron Spelling, whose company produces the show, was fed up with Doherty, thinking of terminating her contract or at lease exiling Brenda to a far-off college. When contacted, no one, not Spelling, not the show's producers, not any of Doherty’s 90210 costars, were available to defend her.

What seemed most conspicuously missing from the newspaper accounts was the twenty-one-year-old's assessment of her deteriorating state of affairs. So the agreement was we'd lay out the reports – some believable, some almost mythically overripened – and let Doherty tell her side of the story. We met at a photographer's studio in West Los Angeles, where Doherty lived up to her end of the deal. She answered every single question forthrightly and without a trace of self-pitty, chain-smoking and looking far too young to be so reviled.

Why do you suppose that people want to assume you're a bitch?

I don't know. I think one of the main problems is that my character searced off very sweet and gradually she became sappy. She takes everything too seriously and feels like she's being f---ed over all the time. [People] aren't separating Shannen and Brenda Walsh. They hate the character, so they automatically hate me.

Let's talk about the "Billboard" awards. Did you have any premonition that the crowd would not be with you?

Yeah, I warned all my representatives that I shouldn't do it. But they said, "You're already committed, you can’t back out because it will look like the Emmys. They'll blow it up into a big thing." So five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, "I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible, because you put me on here."

What happened backstage? I was very, very upset. | was crying, saying, "I can’t believe you put me out there." I mean, it was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life. Then this guy that was hanging out with Arrested Development came over to me and said, “Let me tell you something: You'll dic, they'll die, we all die sometime and the world keeps on spinning. They don't know you. You're talented, you're beautiful, you're a great girl. So just forget it."

Why do you think the audience booed you?

Everybody thinks that I punched some girl at a bar.

Did you? No.

You're referring to the December incident with Bonita Money. What happened?

To cut to the chase, there was tension between my table from the beginning, because they wanted to sit where I was sitting and the owner of the club had sat me there. My friend – I'd rather not give his name, but it wasn't [90210 costar] Brian Austin Green – stepped on a man's foot and apologized, and [the man] didn't really accepted his apology. Then Brian thought my friend said that he had stepped on this man's foot and Brian apologized. By that time we were standing in front of their table, as we were leaving the club, I bent down and said, "Excuse me, what's going on?" This man looked at me and said, "I don't like you, that's what's going on." I saud, "All right," and tried to pull away, but he grabbed my arm. My friend had my other arm and was trying to pull me away. I started to stand up to leave, and out of nowhere, Bonita Money, who I've never laid eyes on – never had any talk with at all – just hit me in my left cheek. Just hit me right here.

"It's ridiculous that somebody can be so attention-starved that they can hit a celebrity [and] get away with it..."

Did she slap you or did she punch you?

Kind of closed fist. I just looked at her, and I was crying. My friend and brian grabbed me, took me into the bar. Security was called. The police arested her, took her downstairs. they asked me if I wanted to file charges, I said yes. When they told her, sge said, "Well, I'm pressing charges, too".

[Bonita Money responds, in part: "I think most of that's right up until the point of [my friend's] grabbing her. [He] never grabbed her. Money also claims she did not hit Doherty and adds, "She just kind of grabbed me. Then I grabbed her and threw her away from the table."]

It's ridiculous that somebody in this world, somebody in L.A., can be so attention-starved that they can hot a celebrity, get away with it, and get so much publicity. She did A Current Affair, she did Howard Stern... I find it upsetting that all these people actually let her on their shows. We went to [the hearing], and the [hearing officer] couldn't really male a clear-cut decision, so she said that all the charges were dropped against both parties. It's over.

Do you feel satisfied with the outcome?

No, I'm not satisfied. It says something about our judicial system, I think. The D. A.'s office should press charges against her. She got free publicity at my expense and made me look very bad... It did a lot of damage to me. I had advertising companies drop me. I lost money.

Do you have a bodyguard?

I do now.

How has that affected your life?

It's a major drag not to be able to go out and just hang with your friends and stuff. But I guess fornow I have to.

Is the lesson, then, that it is sometimes better to back down?

I wasn0t really raised that way, that's probably my problem. I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek... She has a mean left hook.

(Part 2)