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These days Heidi Fleiss greets her paying customers with a chirpy "Hi, can I help you?" Typically the first response is a double take as customers grasp that it's really her -- the notorious Hollywood Madam -- there among the boxer shorts and athletic gear at the Heidi Wear shop in Pasadena, California. The second response is to ask Fleiss to autograph their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week...
...apparently, do a lot of other people. Fleiss's conviction for providing three undercover cops with high-price prostitutes has spawned angry op-ed pieces, talk-radio rantings and feminist denunciations. The standard complaint is one of fairness: of the several parties to any act of pandering, only Fleiss was singled out for prosecution. But what seems to incense Fleiss sympathizers most is the severity of the penalty, which they say dramatizes the problems of mandatory sentencing. "It reflects the worst sense of priorities of our criminal-justice system," says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whom Fleiss has asked...
...more outraged than Fleiss, who says she would "rather die" than go to jail. "I am going to prison, and for what? Sex. That's it," she says. "I would never hurt another human being. I'm a vegetarian because I can't even think of hurting animals." Fleiss is furious that while she faces time, not one of the men listed in her appointment books -- which were confiscated by authorities -- is being prosecuted. "The police, the FBI, nobody cares about the men," she says. "They're not even being investigated...
...Angeles jury today convicted Heidi Fleiss on three of five pandering charges -- effectively saying she ran a high-priced call girl ring -- but deadlocked on two other charges and acquitted her of selling cocaine to an undercover cop. The 28-year-old Fleiss, who had been arrested after providing $1,500 prostitutes for policemen posing as businessmen, slammed her hands on the table in frustration. She faces a maximum of six years in prison. (The trial shed no light on the identities of her supposedly-famous clients, since the judge ruled that information irrelevant.) BTW: The courtroom heat...
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