Word: fleiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department has enlisted none other than bad-boy actor CHARLIE SHEEN to lend encouragement in a series of public-service ads at its www.heroes.net Website. "Are you the next hero?" asks Sheen, whose unheroic scrapes with the law have included serving as a prosecution witness in the HEIDI FLEISS tax-evasion case (Sheen admitted spending more than $50,000 on "sexual services" arranged by Fleiss) as well as making a more recent court appearance in which he pleaded no contest to charges he attacked his former girlfriend...
SENTENCED. HEIDI FLEISS, 31, "Hollywood Madam"; to 37 months in jail; for tax evasion, laundering profits from her call-girl business and conspiring to hide her crimes; in Los Angeles...
...high financial standard for single motherhood, she exulted, "This is the greatest miracle of my life"--a cry not generally echoed in parts of the country where 48% of the children were born to single mothers. Rosie O'Donnell threw her a baby shower, her pediatrician was madam Heidi Fleiss's father, and her progeny-provider was her personal trainer, who, while deprived of the privileges of Mr. Madonnahood, posed for photos in hopes of a modeling career. Not to be outshone, Michael Jackson also got pregnant...
...signs that virtue is growing ever more chic: actor Charlie Sheen, who ran up a $50,000 tab with the Heidi Fleiss escort service, has declared himself a born-again Christian. ("There's such a thing as having too much fun," he concluded after years of arduous research.) Geraldo Rivera, who pioneered the craft of filing video dispatches from the primordial ooze, now bemoans the filth of daytime TV and vows to clean up his act. ("I'm sick of the garbage that is on.") A p.r. executive whose past clients include Michael Jackson is leading a campaign to build...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Of "Hollywood Madam" HEIDI FLEISS, 30, found guilty in 1994 of pandering; by a state appeals court; in Los Angeles. The court ruled jurors had made a "farce" of the trial by trading votes. The ruling does not affect a separate federal money-laundering conviction, for which she awaits sentencing...