In 1986, she published Dear, Dear Brenda, a collection of many of the more than 4,000 letters Henry Miller had written to her. She also was good friends and corresponded with literary figures Lawrence Durrell and Christopher Isherwood. She has lectured extensively and has had her own radio show.
During the spring of 1997, she posed for a celebrity nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, and also posed as a celebrity centerfold for Muscle & Fitness magazine. Later, Celebrity Sleuth did two pictorials on Venus voting her one of the 25 most beautiful women of 2000, and number 10 most beautiful breasts in the world.
The author of Secrets of Seduction , she currently lives in Beverly Hills.