![]() ![]() ![]() She kind of did it for fun, which was why she was so successful.” The case went to trial, where Charlie Sheen testified he’d spent $53,000 a year on Fleiss’ services. “The other players like Madam Alex were all working with the LAPD, giving lists of their clients on a weekly basis,” says Nick Broomfield, director of the 1995 doc Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam. The party did not last long: On June 9, 1993, Fleiss was arrested and charged with five counts of pandering. Her infamous “black book,” which contained the names of her famous clients, was actually a 28-page red Gucci planner. ![]() Soon she was clearing $300,000 a week ($560,000 now) as she kept an A-list roster of celebrities and Hollywood executives very satisfied. With a knack for recruiting high-end talent, Fleiss by 1991 had amassed a stable of 500 girls - the look was “clean-cut and perfect, she was born and raised in Beverly Hills,” she once explained - who charged clients about $1,500 a night ($2,800 today), of which Fleiss took 40 percent. She first worked as one of Alex’s call girls but quickly absorbed the business and launched her own prostitution service in 1990. In 1987 and at age 22, Heidi was taken under the wing of Madam Alex, a procuress to the stars, to whom Fleiss was introduced by her filmmaker boyfriend. It’s hard to believe it took until 1993 for someone to earn the nickname “The Hollywood Madam.” That honor went to Heidi Fleiss, one of six children born to Paul Fleiss, a popular Los Feliz pediatrician. ![]()
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