About Charlotte
Charlotte Laws is an author, TV personality, public speaker, anti-revenge porn activist and animal rights advocate. She is a former actress and magazine covergirl. She has performed as a standup comic at the Comedy Store.
She was a political pundit on BBC television and was weekly commentator on the NBC show, “The Filter with Fred Roggin” from 2009 – 2013. She also hosted her own news show called Uncommon Sense from 2007 – 2010.
Laws stars in the 2022 Netflix docuseries, The Most Hated Man on the Internet.
Laws is the author of the 2015 award-winning memoir, Rebel in High Heels, and the bestselling 2018 nonfiction novel, Devil in the Basement. When she was 26, her bestselling self-help book, Meet the Stars, was published by Ross Books. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Daily News, Salon, The NY Daily News, The LA Times, and the Washington Post, to name a few. Her latest memoir, Undercover Debutante, came on the market in August 2019.
Laws was a Los Angeles city commissioner (2006 – 2008), appointed by the mayor. She also served four terms (2004 – 2012) on the Greater Valley Glen Council in southern California. She was the first politician to run on platform of representing all beings in the district, not just the humans whom she maintains are the elite.
Laws, an Atlanta debutante, was adopted at birth and tracked down her birth parents in her late twenties. She is known for saying, “You can never have too many parents.” She met her natural brother and sister for the first time in 2012. They did not know of Laws’ existence.
Laws lived in Las Vegas in the early 1980’s and then moved to Los Angeles. She has two BA degrees from California State Northridge and two Master’s Degrees from USC. She has a doctorate in Social Ethics from USC and completed post-graduate study at Oxford University, England.
Laws has experimented with a number of jobs. She has worked as a cab driver, private investigator, bodyguard, executive director for a legal nonprofit, backup singer for an Elvis imitator, nurse, fashion designer, aerobics instructor, Realtor, professional dancer, and antiques shop owner. Laws was a lecturer at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Laws has appeared on hundreds of TV shows, including Larry King Live, Oprah Winfrey, The Late Show, Nightline, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Laws’ has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Associated Press, The Daily Beast, and the Chicago Tribune, among others.
Laws made Buzzfeed’s list of the 30 fiercest women in the world and was voted one of the “twenty females who changed the world” by Brainwreck. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Animal Humanitarian Award, and she has received commendations from the California Legislature, the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles Business Journal.
