Original Article on New York Magazine

In the movie version of this story, Julia Roberts will play Princess Stephanie. Amanda Seyfried will play the younger, seductive Sweetie. When 9-year old Brandon Davis named his pet hamster Princess Stephanie, his mother, Theresa, should have known there was bad luck ahead. After all, was not the hamster's wild child namesake a participant in the deadly car crash that ended the life of Princess Grace of Monaco? Why not just go ahead and name it Princess Diana, to ensure maximum doom? Or Princess Chunk? But of course, Theresa couldn't have predicted the chain of catastrophic events that would end up with not one, but two dead hamsters, all of her children turning on one another, and one of them ultimately facing up to two years in prison. Ac...(read more)