Word: giselda
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Like the well-heeled French wife played by Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's movie Belle de Jour, the girls apparently engaged in part-time prostitution for more than the money. Not that the money was bad; Giselda charged $80 to $250 per coffee break, and her girls received cuts ranging from $50 to $100. They never worked past 8:30 p.m., and they were usually home in time for dinner with their unsuspecting families. Some psychologists theorized, however, that this sexual moonlighting was an illusory attempt to satisfy the modern needs for freedom, adventure and unhampered sexuality-particularly...
...police uncovered this matinal merrymaking after they traced a 15-year-old runaway girl from Milan to the apartment of Giselda Giovannelli, 55, in the Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain) suburb of Rome. Staking out the building, they watched scores of pretty young women and well-dressed men pass in and out. The women were so attractive that, in the words of one neighbor, "they would give a blind man back his sight." As the morals cops discovered when they arrested Giselda and found her list of clients and 150 prostitutes, the girls were housewives, young mothers, students, secretaries, airline hostesses...
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