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...also more controversial here in Butte, Mont., where Almodovar has been trying to rustle up the funds to fully restore the Dumas, a former brothel that opened in 1890. After seeing Almodovar on a talk show in 1998, Butte businessman Rudy Giecek, 57, who had acquired the dilapidated Dumas from its last madam, contacted her. Using little more than sweat equity, they have turned the 43-room Victorian building into a museum exploring the history of prostitution. One day Almodovar would also like to turn the Dumas into her foundation's "headquarters" (a fancy term for her tiny collective...
Almodovar's foundation is struggling. Last weekend's Biker Rally, a motorcycle fund raiser for the Dumas, drew small crowds. Almodovar and Giecek are bitterly arguing over money. They could lose the Dumas. Worse, the world's prostitutes found themselves too busy to come to Butte to help out, which broke Almodovar's heart as well as her bank account. This summer, in fact, only one sex worker showed up, a 23-year-old who has stripped at the Palace of Pleasure in Portland, Ore. She admits to feeling awed by the Dumas. "The mind reels--you imagine the women...
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