(She was also helped along by Bob Hope's obsession with her.)
I'll go ahead and say it. I had a nagging feeling about Dakota since I first saw her in that alien series a year or so ago. She's constantly shoved in front of cameras and her interviews make her seem much older than what she is. Something just always seemed a bit off or dark somehow. This article put the final nail into it.
We rented "Pretty Baby" last year. I remember seeing it when it first came out, back when I was in college. Now, I found it it very disturbing, really was too close to child porn!