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Male brothel to open
18/11/2005 07:40 - (SA)
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Los Angeles - Notorious Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is going back to the world's oldest profession, with plans to open a brothel offering male prostitutes in the wild western state of Nevada, her lawyer said on Thursday.
Fleiss, who was jailed in 1996 after Los Angeles police busted her high-class ring of hookers who serviced some of Hollywood's biggest players, says she is seeking gigolos who will charge $250 an hour in her new house of ill repute, to be dubbed "Heidi's Stud Farm".
"She is going to be a hostess/madam," said Fleiss's Las Vegas lawyer Richard Schonfeld. "She's bringing a new concept to the brothel industry in Nevada, this is a first," he added.
Prostitution is legal in certain counties of Nevada, the only United States state in which brothels are legally allowed to operate.
Gap in the market
Fleiss believes there is a ready market for male prostitutes.
"Women are more independent these days, they make more money and it's hard to meet people," Fleiss told the Los Angeles Times newspaper as she packed for what she said would be a permanent move from Tinseltown to Nevada.
"You wouldn't believe the number of women who've told me, 'Heidi, if you do this, I'll be the first one in line!' I mean, relationships are harder than dieting, you know what I mean?," she said.
Fleiss is seeking men prepared to work lying down to staff the brothel, which she plans to open in partnership with the owner of three existing Nevada cathouses, Joe Richards.
He and Fleiss are planning to remodel and change the name of one of them, a bar and a collection of trailers called the Cherry Patch near the town of Pahrump in the greater Las Vegas area. The brothel will feature waterfalls and palm trees.
Casting
"Richards is planning on doing it pretty quickly, but no precise date has yet been set," said Schonfeld.
The 39-year-old daughter of a Los Angeles doctor, Fleiss said she planned to do a "casting call" for gigolos who will work in the "Stud Farm".
"It's gonna be like Leo DiCaprio in The Aviator," she told the Times, "and I'm going to put out a casting call for about 20 guys - I bet I get thousands of applicants".
Fleiss was arrested in 1995 for running a high-class prostitution ring for rich and famous clients in a scandal that rocked Hollywood and made many players very nervous that the contents of her notorious "black book" would become public. They never did.
Fleiss left prison in 1998 after serving 20 months of a 37-month term for conspiracy, money laundering, tax evasion and attempted pandering.
- AFP
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