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Hollywood Madam to open Nevada 'stud farm'
Excite News ^ | 18 November 2005 | Steve Gorman

Posted on 11/18/2005 9:51:33 AM PST by ShadowAce

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss, whose previous career running a call-girl ring landed her in prison, is returning to the world's oldest profession -- to open a Nevada brothel catering to women.

Fleiss said on Thursday she has struck a deal with a licensed brothel owner in Nevada, where prostitution is legal, to turn one of his three establishments, the Cherry Patch, into a glitzy new bordello that she will rename Heidi Fleiss' Stud Farm.

She plans to remodel the building, located outside the town of Pahrump, Nevada, west of Las Vegas near the California border, with skylights, marble tiling, palm trees and waterfalls, and hopes to reopen the business within two months.

Fleiss said she is taking applications from men seeking to work in what she says will be the world's first licensed brothel catering exclusively to female clients.

"The Hollywood Madam is looking for a few good men out there," she told Reuters in a telephone interview in the midst of her move from Los Angeles to Nevada. "It's going to be an oasis in the desert."

Fleiss said she is aiming for an initial stable of about 20 male prostitutes who would charge $250 an hour -- far less, she said, then the fees paid by clients of the call-girl ring she ran a decade ago.

"Prostitution and modeling are the only businesses where women make more money than men," she said, adding that her "studs" would split their earnings 50/50 with her, but "keep all their tips."

Fleiss acknowledged that her biggest potential obstacle is her 1995 conviction on federal charges of tax evasion and money laundering, stemming from her prostitution service catering to the rich and famous. She ultimately served 21 months in prison and was released in November 1998.

Nevada state law allows counties to deny a brothel license to convicted felons, although Fleiss said she knows of several bordello owners with criminal records. She also said her plan was to operate her "stud farm" under an existing license.

"There's still a little bit of legalities that we're working through, but it's going to be OK," she said.

Her Las Vegas-based lawyer, Richard Schonfeld, said Fleiss will not be an owner or licensee of the establishment but merely an employee with the title of "madam/hostess."

She must first obtain a work card from the county sheriff's department, a process that requires far less scrutiny than applying for a business license, Schonfeld said.

"She just wants to be employed there and go through the regular steps that any employee at a brothel has to go through," he said. "She going to lend her name and her charm to the business."

Representatives of the Nye County Commission could not immediately be reached for comment. Commission chairwoman Candice Trummell told the Los Angeles Times that county attorneys were reviewing the proposed business and it was unclear whether it would be approved.

Assuming the brothel opens as planned, Fleiss said she is certain there will be plenty of demand for its services.

"Women make more money these days, they're calling the shots, they're more powerful. And let's face it, it's hard to meet someone," she said.

"And then you've got the situation with the old husband leaving his wife for the younger girl, and the lady sitting at home crying. Well, now she has a place to go, and say, 'Right back at you, buddy, and on your credit card.'"


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To: laney

What truth? It is evident to everyone who you are - apparently you are embarrassed so you lie about it - that's your problem - but professing to having a relationship with someone to whom you are not married is cheating Missy - you can say all you want that it isn't but it is -


61 posted on 11/18/2005 2:38:04 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

You also need to stop being naive about people and realize real people have real problems and most try to work them out the best way they can...It's called being a Human Being....


62 posted on 11/18/2005 2:38:24 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

That is like saying everyone you speak to on Freerepublic that is not your husband is cheating, is that what you are saying?


63 posted on 11/18/2005 2:39:51 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

You said you were trying to work on your marriage - how is having cyber affairs a legitimate attempt to work on your marriage?


64 posted on 11/18/2005 2:41:32 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: laney

YOU said you couldn't get this person out of your head - that is very different from having a platonic (that means not having a cyber affair) friend on this forum


65 posted on 11/18/2005 2:43:27 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Did I leave him? everyone has to heal the best way they can
you are speaking about a situation you have never been in, that being the case how do you really know what you would do?


66 posted on 11/18/2005 2:43:44 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

Healing by affairs? That's a new one -


67 posted on 11/18/2005 2:45:44 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

YOU said you couldn't get this person out of your head

That is correct, because I think he is a wonderful human being and I like what he is all about, that does not mean I am going to go and have an affair.. that is my thoughts.


68 posted on 11/18/2005 2:46:27 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

"that is my thoughts" - what does that mean?


69 posted on 11/18/2005 2:47:58 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

If you don't think people think fo others while married, you are sadly mistaken this happens all the time, what tears a family apart is infidelity not someone's private thoughts.


70 posted on 11/18/2005 2:49:27 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

My thoughts about another man other than my husband...
Thoughts no more and no less..Just thoughts.


71 posted on 11/18/2005 2:50:48 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

Wow, you really are messed up - if your husband doesn't do it for you Missy, then as I said before, I feel sorry for you


72 posted on 11/18/2005 2:51:12 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

And as I said you are naive if you do not think this happens...I did not say it is right but it happens.

And as far as Lust of the heart everyone is guilty of it and some time in there life and if they say *Not me it's a lie...


73 posted on 11/18/2005 2:56:09 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

Here's where you have a problem - people work on their marriage all the time. I doubt anyone goes through a week and doesn't have something that annoys them - we all do - but I accept that I do things that will annoy my husband just as he does things occasionally that annoy me - but I make it a point to thank him for what he does and show appreciation for who he is. I can't even imagine how it would hurt him to think that I NEEDED to fantasize about someone else instead of him - I would be heartbroken to hurt my husband like that.


74 posted on 11/18/2005 2:56:57 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: laney

Well I don't lie and I don't lust after other men - Of course I married a Marine so who would I lust after other than him?


75 posted on 11/18/2005 3:00:47 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

As I said to you *Your thoughts* belong to you....We do not make a point to hurt each other, we both have been married to other people, my husband has said he feels really guilty about leaving his first wife for whom he has 3 boys almost grown now and understands the importance of how much a a family means to him or his kids, so if he fantasizes about life with his former wife and kids should I be jealous? no it's a thought a private one.


76 posted on 11/18/2005 3:02:20 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

Good God, someone should have you as a case study - You've been married ten years and he still wants the exwife? And this doesn't bother you? I just don't get that -


77 posted on 11/18/2005 3:04:45 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

And this doesn't bother you? No....


78 posted on 11/18/2005 3:12:06 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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To: laney

What bother me? That your husband wants his exwife?


79 posted on 11/18/2005 3:13:14 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

He does not want her, he just feels it was an obligation to stay with her because he had 3 boys, we have no children together.


80 posted on 11/18/2005 3:17:51 PM PST by laney (little bit country,little bit Rock and Roll!)
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