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So far, Heidi Fleiss’s 2020 hasn’t exactly been a flying success. The former Hollywood madam — during the 1990s she furnished call girls to Charlie Sheen and other A-listers — began the year worried about the ­future of her macaw sanctuary. Since 2006, she has cared for some three dozen rescued birds at her extremely remote desert home in Pahrump, Nev., but three years ago she was allegedly fleeced out of a $400,000 inheritance that grew into a $4 million investment, leaving her penniless. Her lawsuit over that matter seemed stalled earlier this year. Then there was the pandemic and...

One of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged “sex slave” recruiters is being investigated by federal prosecutors as part of their probe into his associates and employees, a report said Thursday. After Epstein hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell earlier this month, federal authorities shifted their criminal investigation to more than six of his friends, associates and employees — including Haley Robson, the New York Times reported, citing two people with knowledge of the inquiry. When Epstein was arrested on soliciting underage prostitutes in 2007, officials wanted to charge Robson — who once described herself as “like Heidi Fleiss,” the...

... The Hollywood Madam turned Pahrump laundromat owner says she's abandoning her plans to open a Nye County brothel catering to women. ... "I think I'm going to put all my property up for sale in Crystal," Fleiss said recently by phone from her house in Pahrump. "I don't want to work so hard ... and deal with all the nonsense in the sex business." Instead, she is focusing her attention on an alternative energy project she said is "perfect for Nevada." "That's where the money is," she said. "That's the wave of the future." Fleiss declined to elaborate on...

Just how in the hell would a high-profile, ho-bustin' politician like Eliot Spitzer ever expect to get away with his pay-for-play D.C. side piece? "It's so easy not to not get caught," reformed Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss tells Radar, adding that she provided service to many a well known politician her day. "I saw many famous people—more famous than Eliot Spitzer—and you know what, you pay people right, you treat them right, you don't have a problem." The devil, she says, was in Spitzer's particular freak, which left the gals who are alleged to have serviced him describing the governor...

PAHRUMP, Nev. - Authorities say former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss was arrested Thursday morning on charges of illegal possession of prescription drugs and driving under the influence. Authorities say Fleiss was pulled over at about 9:30 a.m. by Nye County sheriff's deputies responding to a call of a possible drunken driver. Fleiss, 42, and a passenger in the car, John Owen, were found to be under the influence of a controlled substance. Fleiss had prescription medication but could not produce a valid prescription, according to the sheriff's office. Fleiss was arrested on four counts, including possession of dangerous drugs without...

Former Hollywood madam and current rural Nevada small businesswoman Heidi Fleiss was turned away from Hillary Clinton's appearance in Pahrump last week, but she doesn't hold a grudge. Fleiss, who is running a laundromat while she continues to dream of opening a brothel for women, is backing Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., for president with all her might, she said. By the time Fleiss and two neighbors got to the Skate Zone where Clinton was appearing, it was filled to capacity. "Naturally, I was disappointed, but it's exciting that so many people came out to see her," Fleiss said. "I don't hold...

PUBLIC EYE'S WEEK IN REVIEW From one jailbird to another May 20, 2007 From one jailbird to another Think of it as camp. That's basically the gist of what former “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss is advising Paris Hilton with regards to her impending jail sentence. While others have been warning Hilton of the indignities of jail – no toilet seat on the commode, cramped accommodations and quel horreur, the likelihood of having to wear an orange jail-issue jumpsuit – Fleiss is telling Hilton, via the Los Angeles Times, that it'll be over in a flash, and that she's “spent nights...

Victoria Sellers, the troubled daughter of the late actor Peter Sellers and the actress Britt Ekland, is to be deported to Britain after being arrested for immigration violations in Hollywood last night. Ms Sellers, who starred in a sex tips video and has spent time in American jails for drug and robbery-related offences, is being held at an immigration centre in Orange County, California, according to a spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

PICTURE a pleasure oasis in the Nevada desert, a collection of luxurious bungalows featuring bedrooms with fireplaces where sexual fantasies and desires are catered to. Starting at $250 an hour. But at this house, Heidi's Stud Farm, the prostitutes will be hunky men and the patrons women. Heidi Fleiss is planning the all-male brothel on 60 acres in Nevada, where prostitution is often legal, and there are more than two dozen brothels of the conventional sort. Lawyers for Ms. Fleiss, the ex-Hollywood madam who served time in prison in the late 1990's on federal charges related to a high-end call-girl...

PAHRUMP -- She has yet to apply for a brothel license, but former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss has moved to Nye County and revealed the identity of the first man picked to work at her Stud Farm for women in nearby Crystal.

Betting on the Studs Madam Heidi Fleiss is back—and building an all-male bordello in the desert. Is even Nevada ready for this? By Steve Friess Newsweek Dec. 12, 2005 issue - Standing on a desolate stretch of property dotted with sagebrush and litter 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss surveys the sexual frontier. She's sketching out her vision for Heidi's Stud Farm, the country's first legal brothel serving female customers. This pleasure palace will be shaped like a castle, with a marble-floored great room, a spa, a sex-toy shop and secluded bungalows where 20 Casanovas...

November 23, 2005 CHANGE OF PLANS Fleiss to go on her own RICHARDS OUT; 'HOLLYWOOD MADAM' STILL PLANS TO BUILD CRYSTAL BROTHEL FOR WOMEN By DOUG McMURDO PVT DOUG McMURDO / PVT Heidi Fleiss talks on her cell phone Monday. She explained her goal of opening Nevada's first brothel to feature male prostitutes that would cater to a female-only clientele. Richards pulls out of male prostitute plan The following is a verbatim account of Crystal brothel owner Joe Richards' letter to members of the Nye County Board of Commissioners and Sheriff Tony DeMeo in their capacity as the county's liquor...

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,...

Hollywood Madam to open Nevada 'stud farm' Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:11 PM ET   By Steve Gorman 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...

By Heidi Fleiss as told to Nadya Labi TEN YEARS AGO, I WAS ARRESTED AT MY HOME IN BEVERLY HILLS for pandering, which the dictionary defines as acting as "a go-between in sexual intrigue." In other words, I was a madam. After a jury convicted me of three counts of pandering, the verdicts were thrown out, but the government didn't give up. It made me the Al Capone of prostitution. I spent three years in a federal penitentiary in Dublin, Calif., for conspiracy, tax evasion, and money laundering. But it was the sex that got me in trouble. When I...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Tom Sizemore was convicted Friday of one count of physically abusing former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss and several charges of harassing and annoying her, but he was acquitted of 10 other counts.</p> <p>The 41-year-old star of "Black Hawk Down" and "Saving Private Ryan" faces up to four years in prison, but he and his attorney focused on the acquittals on the majority of charges, including three of the most serious.</p>

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss sobbed on the witness stand on Tuesday as she testified that actor Tom Sizemore (news) stubbed a cigarette out on her, smacked her in the face and verbally abused her during a rocky year-long relationship. But lawyers for Sizemore, best known for playing a gruff sergeant in "Saving Private Ryan," told a Los Angeles jury that Fleiss was a "liar" who had invented the allegations. Prosecutors said they had photographs of her injuries and tapes of his threats. Fleiss, who spent three years in prison for attempted pandering, was the first...