Vanity, Vanity, all is Vanity—Vanity being Prince’s former backup singer and girlfriend, the woman around whom Prince assembled the all-female trio Vanity 6 in the early ’80s. During the year of these diaries she was Nikki’s lover, and she’s a major character in this book. If you read Motley Crue’s autobiography
The Dirt, written with Neil Strauss, you already have some idea of the band’s attitude towards the majority of their girlfriends.
Of meeting Vanity, Nikki says he was doing cocaine and watching MTV with a pal, pointing out girls he’d like to, er, get to know better, when he spotted Vanity on screen. A call to the Motley office and he tracked down her phone number—common dating procedure for Sixx. She invited him over. When she “opened the door naked, with her eyes going around in her head,” he had “a feeling that we just might hit it off.”