Doherty's last television gig, 90210, ended in 1994 after the actress left the show following a series of "creative differences" with executive producer Aaron Spelling. Generally known as a sullen troublemaker, the actress said she just wanted to spend time with then-hubby Ashley Hamilton--they divorced a few months later.
Since then, Doherty has gone on to star in such winners as the Kevin Smith-directed film Mallrats and Showtime's Jailbreakers. She portrayed Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell in NBC's A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story and appeared in a Korean cosmetics commercial.
Unlike her post-90210 career, Doherty's court life is flourishing. She got things rolling back in 1992 with an L.A. nightclub scuffle, then went on to be sued in 1994 by an ex-landlord who said she trashed her rented house and stiffed him on the rent. Just recently, a woman filed a lawsuit against Doherty and her parents, alleging Doherty's dogs bit her after she came to the door of the family's Malibu home.