I rented a house that unluckily for me happened to be next door to a retired madam who was bedridden.
I moved to Nevada to get it back into the sex business. How did you end up taking up the macaw cause? They need someone who’s a little bit kooky like me to stand up for them. And that’s what happened to these captive macaws. I think every day in prison was important because it made me realize how awful it would be if someone forced you to live your entire life inside a box. Most people would think I’m a kook, because my heart goes out to the captive macaws. I feel like this: Everything in my life - even my fuck-ups, and there’s been a ton of them - everything worked out right because it led to exactly where I am right now. That didn’t cross my mind until you mentioned it. So it’s the 25th anniversary of your arrest. She spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her lasting place in show business infamy. Today, the 52-year-old Fleiss lives with dozens of exotic birds on the outskirts of Pahrump, Nevada. That conviction was overturned in 1996, but a federal tax-evasion case the next year led to a 20-month stint in prison in Dublin, California. A jury convicted her on three counts, for which she received a three-year sentence. She kind of did it for fun, which was why she was so successful.” The case went to trial, where Charlie Sheen testified he’d spent $53,000 a year on Fleiss’ services. “The other players like Madam Alex were all working with the LAPD, giving lists of their clients on a weekly basis,” says Nick Broomfield, director of the 1995 doc Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam. The party did not last long: On June 9, 1993, Fleiss was arrested and charged with five counts of pandering. Her infamous “black book,” which contained the names of her famous clients, was actually a 28-page red Gucci planner. Soon she was clearing $300,000 a week ($560,000 now) as she kept an A-list roster of celebrities and Hollywood executives very satisfied. With a knack for recruiting high-end talent, Fleiss by 1991 had amassed a stable of 500 girls - the look was “clean-cut and perfect, she was born and raised in Beverly Hills,” she once explained - who charged clients about $1,500 a night ($2,800 today), of which Fleiss took 40 percent. She first worked as one of Alex’s call girls but quickly absorbed the business and launched her own prostitution service in 1990. In 1987 and at age 22, Heidi was taken under the wing of Madam Alex, a procuress to the stars, to whom Fleiss was introduced by her filmmaker boyfriend. It’s hard to believe it took until 1993 for someone to earn the nickname “The Hollywood Madam.” That honor went to Heidi Fleiss, one of six children born to Paul Fleiss, a popular Los Feliz pediatrician.
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