Heidi Fleiss

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

Origin and Youth

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

Early showed her business acumen. She was only 12 years old when she gave babysitters jobs. In 1981, she dropped out of high school without qualifications and was reflected in changing professions as a florist or waitress by. At 19, she met Bernard Cornfeld at a party in Beverly Hills, with whom she began a relationship and " who introduced them to the world of the rich and famous of Hollywood ."

Call Girl Ring

During this time she learned about director Ivan Nagy from the Philippines " Madame Alex ," who became entertained a call-girl ring. Heidi quickly became the " best horse" in her stall, but had almost five years later their own, far more exclusive service set up. She became one of Hollywood's most sought-after personalities - albeit behind closed doors. "'I did not ask for my girls $ 1,500 and $ 2,000 the night outside the city ,' she says. And she sent her girls not only to New York, Chicago and Miami, but to the whole world. ' There were men who gratuities amounting to 5,000 or $ 20,000 have given. Some of my clients put even one million U.S. dollars on top of it, which then divided up three girls among themselves. ' "

Trial and sentencing

With their arrest, shaking the film industry, which names would be known from the " black notebook " of the call-girl mediator. Charlie Sheen admitted to have paid around $ 50,000 for their escort services. The tabloid press brought more names like Jack Nicholson, Billy Idol, Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger into play, but Fleiss said: " The name I will not say anything. But Hollywood actors were of minimal interest. They measly five million U.S. dollars in the account, but have incredibly inflated egos: The mean everything is free in life. As an attitude that is completely uninteresting. For good reason, I focused on my business on the super-rich of international stature. That half of a percentage multi- billionaires who my girls - and me -. Could really offer something "And so it stayed with guesses who really belonged to the group of customers - except for Charlie Sheen, who had testified against them in court.

Fleiss was indicted in Los Angeles in a civil and five criminal cases. Heidi's father, Paul Fleiss was charged with money laundering. Both pleaded "not guilty". Because of prostitution or pandering Fleiss could not be convicted, these proceedings were dropped. In 1994 she was convicted of tax evasion and money but laundry to three years in jail, 300 hours community service, $ 400 fine and with the requirement to complete a drug treatment. She sat the sentence in federal prison in Dublin, California and from 1998 was released early after 21 months. The father was to one day in jail, $ 50,000 fine, three years probation and 625 hours of community service have been convicted.

After the scandal

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

1995 turned a Nick Broomfield documentary about her call-girl ring and named it for the first time "Hollywood Madam".

2002 and 2003 there was a stir and court proceedings because her then- significant other Tom Sizemore should have beaten them and Fleiss were rumored drug problems again.

2003 enlisted Fleiss for " Daily Planet", Australia's largest and the world 's first publicly listed brothel but the Melbourne establishment soon disappeared again from the headlines, the IPO had been mainly an advertising spectacle.

Fleiss 2004 sold the rights to their story to the Paramount Studios. Her story was titled "The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss " - filmed by Charles McDougall with Jamie -Lynn Discala in the lead role ( " A Hollywood Call Girl Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss ").

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

Fleiss took part in the third season of the reality TV show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew and had to be accompanied during a drug withdrawal.

Stallion Farm

2005 acquired diligence in Pahrump, a small town on the border of the U.S. state of Nevada to California, a land on which they their plans for a " horse farm " - wanted to achieve - a brothel for women. The house should have space for twenty Escorts that should take care to an hourly wage of at least $ 250 to the exclusively female clientele. Since the first plans were not implemented, they opened a laundromat called Dirty Laundry. In 2009 she gave up these plans.