Heidi Fleiss

Heidi Fleiss (2006)

Heidi Fleiss (born December 30, 1965 in Los Angeles California ) is an American prostitute who built and directed the most famous call girl ring in Hollywood of the 1990s under the nickname "Hollywood Madam" .

Origin and youth

Fleiss grew up with six siblings in a middle-class and well-off American Jewish family in Los Angeles. Her father is the pediatrician Paul M. Fleiss, her mother was a teacher.

Her business acumen showed up early on. She was just 12 years old when she found babysitting jobs. In 1981 she left high school without a degree and worked in various professions, such as a florist or waitress. At the age of 19 she met entrepreneur Bernard Cornfeld at a party in Beverly Hills , with whom she began a relationship and "who introduced her to the world of the beautiful and the rich in Hollywood".

Call girl ring

During this time she got to know the Filipino woman "Madame Alex" through director Ivan Nagy , who ran a call girl ring. Heidi quickly became the “best horse” in her stable, but almost five years later she had set up her own, far more exclusive service. She became one of the most sought-after personalities in Hollywood - albeit behind closed doors.

"'I was charging $ 1,500 a night for my girls and $ 2,000 out of town," she says. And she sent her girls not only to New York, Chicago and Miami, but around the world. 'There were men who gave tips of $ 5,000 or $ 20,000. Some of my customers even put a million dollars on top of that, which three girls then split among themselves. '"

- Die Welt, edition 11/2005

Trial and conviction

When she was arrested, the film industry trembled as to which names would be known from the call girl's “black notebook”. Charlie Sheen admitted paying around $ 50,000 for her escort services. The tabloid press brought up other names like Jack Nicholson , Billy Idol , Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger , but Fleiss said:

“I don't say anything about the names. But Hollywood actors were of little interest. They have a measly five million dollars in their bank accounts, but they have incredibly inflated egos: They think everything in life is free. As an attitude, that's completely uninteresting. I have focused my business on the super-rich of international stature for good reason. That half percent of multi-billionaires who could really offer my girls - and me - something. "

And so it remained with guesswork, who really belonged to the clientele - except for Charlie Sheen, who had testified against them in court.

Fleiss was charged with one civil and five criminal trials in Los Angeles. Heidi's father, Paul Fleiss, was also charged with money laundering . Both pleaded "not guilty". Because prostitution or pandering Fleiss could not be convicted, these procedures have been set. In 1994 she was but because of tax evasion and money laundering to three years in jail, 300 hours community service, 400 US dollars fined and with the condition that he complete a drug treatment. She was serving her sentence in Federal Prison in Dublin , California and was released early in 1998 after 21 months. The father had been sentenced to a day in prison, a $ 50,000 fine, three years probation, and 625 hours of social service.

After the scandal

She sang Tori Amos , with whom she was friends in the 1980s, in "The Wrong Band" as well as Kid Rock in "Cowboy", Peaches in "Two Guys (For Every Girl") and Eric Idle in his FCC song.

In 1995 Nick Broomfield made a documentary about her call girl ring and first called her "Hollywood Madam".

In 2002 and 2003 there was a sensation and legal proceedings because her then partner Tom Sizemore is said to have beaten her and Fleiss was again accused of drug problems.

In 2003 Fleiss advertised “ Daily Planet ”, Australia 's largest and world's first listed brothel . The Melbourne establishment soon disappeared from the headlines, the IPO was above all an advertising spectacle.

In 2004 Fleiss sold the rights to her story to Paramount Studios. Your story was filmed under the title "The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss" ("A Hollywood Call Girl - Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss") by Charles McDougall with Jamie-Lynn DiScala in the lead role.

Until 2005 Fleiss resided in Beverly Hills , worked for Fox News and was the owner of the Hollywood Madam boutique in West Hollywood .

Fleiss took part in the 3rd season of the reality TV show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew participated and was escorted during a drug rehab.

Stallion Farm

In 2005 Fleiss bought a piece of land in Pahrump , a small town on the border between the US state of Nevada and California , where she wanted to realize her plans for a “stallion farm” - a brothel for women. The house should have room for twenty callboys , who should take care of the exclusively female clientele for an hourly wage of at least 250 US dollars. Since the plans could not be implemented at first, she opened a laundromat called Dirty Laundry . In 2009 she gave up these plans.

Fleiss also runs a porn website with Victoria Sellers, the daughter of actor Peter Sellers .

In October 2013, Heidi Fleiss was arrested again for drug possession.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the US, "madam" is the name for a brothel boss ( puff mother ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} DIE WELT 11/05: I'm still looking for real men.
3. ↑ DIE WELTWOCHE 38/02: “Men are pigs, but I still love them. ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. " 
4. ↑ "Heidi Fleiss makes investors 'keen' on brothel shares"
5. ↑ MSNBC Newsweek 12/05: Madam Heidi Fleiss is back — and building an all-male bordello in the desert.
6. ^ Heidi Fleiss opens "Dirty" Laundromat. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: FoxNews.com , July 2, 2007. 
7. ^ Henry Brean: Heidi Fleiss gives up on plan for brothel for women. In: ReviewJournal.com , February 10, 2009 (English).
8. ↑ Heidi Fleiss back in business? In: RP-online.de , March 23, 2001.
9. ↑ Drug discovery: ex-call girl queen Heidi Fleiss arrested. In: ORF.at , October 23, 2013.

literature

• Heidi Fleiss: pandering . One Hour Entertainment, 2003. ISBN 0-9720164-0-6 . (English)