When her books about women, men and the clitoris caused outrage, the bestselling writer was forced to flee the US. She ended up in my small ex-council flat in London – her head still full of revolution
LET’S UNPACK THAT: With her pioneering 1976 bestseller ‘The Hite Report’, a beautiful academic with a taste for glamour became one of the biggest names in sex and celebrity. A new documentary explores what happened next, from the scandal that dogged her to her eventual disappearance. Charlotte O’Sullivan meets its director