Cupcake Brown

Cupcake Brown (born Cupcake La' Vette Burns 5 March 1964, in San Diego, California) is an American author and a lawyer.

Biography

Cupcake Brown was erroneously named when a nurse misunderstood her mother's post-delivery request for a cupcake to eat, when the nurse was in fact asking her mother what she wanted to name her new baby. Her biological father wished to call her 'La' Vette' which did become part of her legal name. She remembers a happy childhood until the age of eleven when her mother died of choking on her tongue during her sleep (seizure). Her step-father had no legal options to adopt her or her brother, despite the bond they had and her biological father received custody. However, her biological father farmed his children out to foster caring families, to allow money to be raised from fostering fees. She was placed in several foster homes, in which she was abused both physically and sexually. She ran away and was subsequently introduced to prostitution. She later joined a gang after moving in with an aunt in LA. A few days before she turned sixteen, Brown was shot by a rival gang in a drive-by. The doctors told her that she may not be able to walk again. Three weeks after that, she decided to quit being a gang member and later that same year, she left the foster care system, declared legally emancipated. As an adult, Brown obtained work in a law firm, but continued struggling with drug addiction until she reached out to her boss for assistance and went to rehab.[1] Thereafter, she earned her college degree at San Diego State University and attended law school at the University of San Francisco, graduating in 2001 with the Judge Harold J. Haley award for "unusual distinction, scholarship, character and activities"[1] Brown went on to become an associate with the law firm of McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson (now Bingham McCutchen).[2]

She has written an autobiography called A Piece of Cake: A Memoir.

References

  1. 1 2 Fimrite, Peter (2001-05-21). "Law degree marks victory over drugs, poverty, abuse". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
  2. ↑ Valby, Karen (2006-02-24). "Piece of cake". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-10-27.


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