Word: madams
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...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, run on a shoestring...