Denise Wojcik was arrested with Dunne 15 years ago in Florida's Grand Cypress hotel after spending the night with him before he flew into a cocaine-induced psychosis.

Dunne had contacted the 'Escorts in a Flash' agency earlier that night in February 1992 requesting the company of a call-girl. Wojcik was 21 at the time.

When asked by the Sunday Tribune last week about the infamous incident, Wojcik said:

"I don't want to talk about it. It was a long time ago and I've changed my life." Wojcik is now a successful self-employed professional craftswoman who travels around the state selling clay jewellery and framed wall hangings.

She divorced from her husband five years ago and has a 12-year-old son, Daniel, with whom she lives in Florida's Merritt Island.

Following her divorce, Wojcik turned her lifelong hobby into a livelihood despite having no formal training as an artist.

She travels to craft shows around Florida and can make over 1,000 a weekend on its busy art and craft show circuit.

She has a studio set up in her kitchen and bakes clay models in the oven after moulding them into shapes.

Wojcik offers tips to wouldbe craftspeople in a local magazine and says she dreams one day of "making it big" in the crafts world.

The incident in Florida led to an overhaul of Dunne's financial affairs which revealed payments from him to former taoiseach Charles Haughey. This ultimately led to the establishment of the McCracken and Moriarty tribunals, all spurred on by Wojcik's decision to alert the authorities about her companion's irrational behaviour.

After Wojcik called security, Dunne was found on his 17thfloor hotel balcony screaming and threatening to jump. Police were called and the tycoon was later convicted of possession of cocaine and ordered to take a 28-day rehabilitation programme in a private psychiatric hospital in London.

Dunne was then sacked by his siblings from the family supermarket business as they saw him as too unstable. Nowadays, Dunne is once again a successful businessman with a string of fitness centres. He too has turned his life around and has spoken publicly about the dangers of cocaine.