In 2003, the star ducked back behind the camera to pen a script, knocking out the screen play for adult film Emmanuelle Private Collection: Sex Goddess 2003.
Shannah is topless, as is Bruce, having both literally lost their shirts.
The most wrenching was his ex-wife, the dancer Allegra Kent, with whom he had his three children.
Calmly and without rancor, she indicts him for his dalliances and questions whether she ever really loved him.
But Stern hid himself behind his camera and later in the haze of his methamphetamine addiction.
In fact, the script actually differs from Vladimir Nabokov's original text, making Lolita 16 instead of 12 as she appears in the book.
Stern's editorial and advertising photography documented the latter half of the 20th century through portraits in Vogue and Life of the era's most illustrious celebrities—some of whom he made illustrious.
It took everything I ever learned up till then to learn how to deal with him.