Word: madam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...feel that the prosecution wants to paint a negative picture of Heidi." --Elissa, mother of reputed Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, in an interview with a California radio station, following her daughter's arrest for violating the terms of her release from jail by testing positive for drugs...
...Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy, gambler and hard-eyed madam -- are ready to offer the predictable wisdom that no man should be presumed guilty if he can afford to retain one of them. And just as the hearing is a sneak preview of the murder trial, so these bit players seem to be auditioning for a second career. The Tonight...
...Angeles, a company town still cringing from the Heidi Ho' headlines about a Hollywood madam and her yet to be revealed list of star and mogul clients, scandal is a commodity to be both feared and savored. In the rest of the country, the Heidi story was rancid catnip for a slow news summer. But the Michael Jackson story goes deeper -- yes, and deeper than the sad public frolics of Woody Allen a year ago. For as pitiable and lunatic as Jackson's soft eccentricities make him appear in the skeptical public eye, he had surely convinced the world...
Appearing at her arraignment on pandering and drug charges in Los Angeles, Heidi Fleiss, the alleged madam to the stars, spoke only one word -- she answered yes when asked if she realized that she had waived a hearing of the counts against her. She is pleading not guilty to all charges. The case will resume with preliminary hearings on Sept. 10; Fleiss's black book remains in the custody...