Chapter 6: Media Frenzy (1993, 1994): The Heidi Fleiss scandal breaks wide in the media, making Heidi the most famous woman and sending her clients into a panic
Everybody wants a cut of the Heidi Fleiss story, and some of the people in Heidi’s orbit are selling her out to get theirs. Plus a rabbit hole into how Pretty Woman connects to illegal arms dealing, the stories of call girls “Marilyn” and “Leann,” and how women in Hollywood (and Adrian Lyne) reacted to what the scandal said about the men in their industry in the 90s.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The scandal has frozen the town. This kind of thing
happens in Hollywood once a decade. Therapy and guys who
have decorated their tables with hookers and felt totally unimpeachable
about it for years. If it's true they financed it
with development money, they deserved to sweat for a while.
Julia Phillips, producer Revans person, I haven't spoken to Heidi
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Flys in sometime. Call my press agent, Robert Evans producer.
Heidi Flies is a family friend of Robert Evans, Robert
Evans press agent. She's a casual friend. I'm not in
her social loop. Elliott Mints, talent manager. I have never
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used to professional services, and god knows I don't need to. Fortunately,
I've never had to pay for sex. Biy Idol Billy
Idol has met Heidi Flies, but doesn't know her well.
There may have been sex, but there wasn't commerce. Billy
Idol's publicist, we knew each other pretty well. Frankly, I
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had a little romantic interest in Heidi at one time,
but she's sort of businesswoman. I haven't seen her in months.
I gotta Scobattle now. Bob Crow, Texas real Estate Air
but again she is a mental case and she does drugs.
But there's one thing you can't take away from Hidi.
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She was very good. And she sat at home and
she answered those bones, and she sent those girls out,
and she worked, which she built up she really deserves
because she worked very hard at it. Julie Connister, rival, Madam,
talk to my lawyer, Heidie Place. My client is a
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virtual prisoner in her house since the publicity started in
this matter. Anthony Brooklyer Heidi Flice's defense attorney employment. Previously
on Heidi World, Heidi's high end escort empire has come
crashing down, bringing her life in the fast lane to
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a screeching halt at a frightening crossroads. Welcome to Heidi World,
Chapter six. Media Frenzy. The Heidi Fly scandal breaks wide
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in the media, making Heidi the most famous woman in
the world and sending her clients into a panic. Welcome
back to Heidi World. I'm your host, Molly Lambert. It's
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August and accused Hollywood, Madam. Heidi Flice is now the
center of a national media maelstrom. What began as a
local story in Los Angeles has crossed into the mainstream
and everyone wants a piece of Heidi. While Heidi liked
the attention and notoriety that came with being a high
end madam, she is not prepared for the onslaught of
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media attention that she is suddenly on the receiving end of.
But Heidi Flie is ratings gold. Her arraignment is watched
by one out of every four people who's watching TV
at the time that it's on. When a woman openly
seeks attention, whether for her sex appeal or smarts, or
in Heidi's case, both, the media sometimes decides to attention
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her to death, as if to say, this is what
you wanted, right. Heidi is completely freaked out about her
trial and the narrative has spun completely out of her control.
Role people are selling her out left and right for
their tabloid cut. August, Heidi appears at the courtroom and
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gets mobbed by paparazzi, who nearly knocked her to the
ground in her spike heeled pumps, dark sunglasses, and conservative
beige Normacamali mini dress. After pleading not guilty to five
counts of pandering and one count of cocaine possession, Heidi
exits out the back stairwell into her lawyer Anthony Brooklyar's
Black BMW. Since Heidi won't talk, the press descend on
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her friends, Victoria Sellers and Benita Money, who have come
out to support her. The media imply that Heidi loves
all the press attention, but according to Heidi, every waking
moment with the paparazzi following her was a nightmare. I
was like almost trampled to death. There was a motorcycle
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parked outside and the cameraman just knocked it over. Cameras
were swooping in under I face. Someone was pulling my hair.
I was panicked. I thought someone was going to pull
my clothes off. I was prepared to make a statement,
but they treated my client with no respect. I'm just
returning the favor. The first story about the Heidi Fly
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scandal in the l A Times runs August one. By
August twelve, people are writing in to complain there's way
too much coverage of the Heidi Fly scandal and that
surely there must be real news to cover. Unfortunately, for
these hard news lovers, Heidi draws eyeballs. Let's briefly discuss
the l A New scene in the early nineties l
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A p D were caught beating a black man named
Rodney King during a routine traffic stop when a civilian
who randomly saw the abuse while trying to get footage
of James Cameron filming Terminator two across the street, saw
what was happening and started filming it on a camp harder.
Despite the hard video evidence of the cops beating Rodney King,
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they all got off in court, which led to the
LA Riots or uprisings, where the over police and harassed
black community expressed anger at the city of l a
the one way that upset the ruling class with property destruction.
It was an echo of the nineteen sixty five Watts Rebellion,
which also stemmed from the l A p DS racist
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harassment of black drivers. News coverage of the LA Riots
focused entirely on the property damage and looting, and not
on the structural inequalities and racism that led to the
uprisings and lootings. The continuing tensions in Los Angeles over racism, policing,
and extreme financial inequality were never dealt with. Rather, they
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were buried, and what came to bury them Tabloid News,
a new channel launched on cable called Courtroom Television TV,
better known as court TV. Court TV is the first
television channel to run live courtroom trials as the entire format.
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It becomes a staple of the then booming daytime television
market as it makes for perfect ambient background noise. In July,
court TV starts airing the Lyle and Eric Menendez trial,
causing a media frenzy over the two teenage boys who
shot and killed their parents at the family's Beverly Hills mansion.
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While the Menendez brothers story was a local sensation, the
court TV coverage made it national news. Court TV also
allowed the story to take on a life of its own,
with every minute of the trial now available to be
parson processed on television. In episode two, I mentioned with
the writer at Sanders called stuff buffs, people who showed
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up at criminal trials to sit in the audience and watch.
With the advent of channels like court TV, now everyone
be a snuff buff. When the Heidi Fly story breaks,
every newspaper and local news channel starts running NonStop coverage,
pouring over every new sealacious detail, neglecting other more serious stories.
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The rebuilding of l A after the riots, corruption and
racism and the police, and the city's deep undealt with
wounds over race and class. But those stories are difficult,
and furthermore, the l A Times, which has been printing
l A p d s propaganda since its inception, does
not actually want to go that deep on what's really
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wrong with Los Angeles. Instead, they are here to talk
about Heidi Flice and to make the l a p
D look like heroes for busting her. But people don't
buy what they're selling because everybody still hates the l
A p D. Heidi is not a violent criminal, and
even though she's a young, rich white woman, the l
a p D still went out of their way to
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bust her while letting all of the rich john us
off the hook who would possibly side with the l
a p D on this or think that arresting Heidi
should have been a major priority in Los Angeles besides
the l A p D and the L A. Times.
Of course, Heidi immediately becomes an l A folk hero,
sort of like O. J. Simpson, although their crimes are
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very different, somebody who serves as a walking middle finger
to all the injustices and hypocrisies and abuses of the
l a p D. Heidi has a lot of people
rooting for her to beat the entrenched system that is racist, classist,
and treat sex workers like criminals. If you listen to
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what everyone says about you, then you become their prisoner.
So Heidi does what any sudden vice lord media superstar
would do. She gives a bunch of reporters exclusive coverage
of the Heidi Fly story straight from Heidi herself. First,
she talks to Variety in an adversarial interview where she
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ends up threatening to leak everything for a million dollars
before immediately taking the offer back. Then, in August, she
goes to The l A Times, who described her as
wearing a denim shirt and exercise heights while she lounges
on her couch freaking out about the charges. The reporter
Sean Hubler, who writes most of the Time's Heidi coverage
and develops a friendly rapport with her, seems to think
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that Heidi wants it both ways, the good press without
the bad. She notes that Heidi got a facial haircut
and her makeup done before going to her court appearance,
and shows Heidi a clip of the endlessly replayed footage
of her. Walking into the courtroom, Heidi shrugs and smiles
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sex cells. On August thirteen, the l a p D
launched one of their famous internal investigations to see if
any of their cops were consorting with Heidi Flice and
her friends. Flies tells the house that she had no
special relationship with the cops and that her most recent
contact with them was when she tried to file a
complaint about Yvonne Nage. She is questioned by lap D
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investigators for two hours about whether she employed any cops
as bodyguards or had sex with any police officers. She
says those stories are nefarious gossip planted by her vindictive
ex boyfriend, Yvonne Nage. She also denies an allegation published
in The New York Post that she sent girls to
a birthday party for Scott Kahn, son of the actor
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James Kahn, and blames Yvonne Nag for this story as well.
James Kahn comments, it's not true. I've had enough bad
publicity in my career. I don't need this. I've got
a wife and two year old baby. I don't go
out and party. I don't want to be trashed. James Khan,
actor Billy Idol decides to milk the press he gets
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for being associated with Heidi, and goes on Jay Leno
to deny it again. We should go around a house
and watch television. Maybe you want to repaint the maybe
play YACHTSI I didn't say that. I said I never
paid for it. By this point, the story has gone global.
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The Heidi Fly scandal is no longer just an l
A story, or even an American one. Although it is
uniquely American. Everyone all around the world is following the
story of the woman who has brought Hollywood to its knees. Meanwhile,
that woman, Heidi Flies, feels utterly trapped, boxed in by
the press and her personal circumstances. I felt so bad
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that I snuck out at one am on Monday night
and wrote handwritten notes of apology to all my neighbors,
telling them how sorry I was for the noise and disruption.
But I ran out of Stationary after the first aid notes.
Even Pompadour Papers, the stationary brand she used for the notes,
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gets in on the press and profits the designers Hawk
the Trumpeting Angel's notepad that Heidi used, which they sell
at trendy high end boutique Fred Siegel trumpeting Angels Stationary
becomes their number one seller, and they want to send
Heidi a free pad to use at her trial. L
A p D tells their officers to stop answering press
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questions about the Heidi Fly's trial because various lap D
spokespeople keep providing wildly different stories. I always hear the
Benny Hill music yakety sacks in my head when the
cops and sheriffs are giving their crazy, lying accounts of
what just happened. All press inquiries are to be handled
from now on by Commander David J. Gascon. The news
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falsely links to shooting in Malibu, too high end prostitution,
and two spokespeople from the Sheriff's department makes statements about
the Lorie Dolan case that contradict each other. The Heidi
Fly story is taking on a life of its own,
separate from reality. Sound familiar. The Internet exacerbates the conspiracy
process to warp speed, but in any medium, as soon
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as a big story breaks, people come out of the
woodwork claiming to have information true or false. Mayor Richard Reardon,
sensing that people are still not so hot on the
cops in Los Angeles raises the question that newspapers seemingly won't.
Why was it such a top priority to bus Heidi
Flis and why are the cops acting like this makes
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the streets of Los Angeles safer in any way? Shouldn't
the self proclaimed crime fighters be going after the violent
crime they claim runs rampant everywhere in l A without
their help? Everyone in town has an opinion. Should you
be going after people in this situation? That's a legitimate issue.
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Richard Reardon, Mayor of Los Angeles. I don't understand vice.
They have to pay for it in the whole eva
so a women who would give it away for one
line in a movie or for no line in a movie,
Ava Kapor. August, fot the I r S comes for
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Heidi as well, launching a formal investigation into her finances
that ropes her dad into the proceedings for his role
as co signer on her home loan for the Tower
Grove estate. While Heidi can handle there being consequences for
her own actions, she cannot deal with her dad being
dragged into it. August, pop star Michael Jackson is accused
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of molesting a boy named Jordan Chandler this scandal trumps
the Heidi Fly scandal because Michael Jackson is an enormous
worldwide superstar. But it's all connected because Jackson is under
contract at Sony, the same Japanese media and electronics company
that owns Columbia Pictures, where the Heidi scandal is read.
Jan Michael Jackson also happens to employ the same private
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detective as Columbia's Michael Nathanson, Anthony Pellicano. Anthony Pellicano is
with mj on his world tour when he's tipped off
that the cops are raiding Jackson's property looking for evidence
of child pornography. Pelicano puts out a counter story, alleging
that the victims family is just looking for a payout.
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All of this effects not just Hollywood, but the Cola
Wars PEPSI had recently picked up two points in market
share from Coke after making Michael Jackson their new spokesperson.
That summer, singer Rick James also gets convicted at the
same courthouse on two charges of kidnapping and torturing women
under the influence of crack cocaine. All this dirty laundry
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is a bonanza for the news channels, magazines and newspapers,
both tabloid and serious. Scandal always sells newspapers, but now
it can also sell cable and local news. US Magazine
plans to print what is allegedly a check made out
from Steve Roth's production company to Heidi Flice. Roth denies
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the check is even real and says he only saw
but didn't meet Heidi once at a Thanksgiving party thrown
by Nathanson. Because Roth's movie, Last Action Hero went so
over budget and was such a big flop for Columbia,
it now invites scrutiny about what exactly they wasted all
that money on. Roth's rise and fall in Hollywood was swift.
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His production company joined Columbia Pictures for a two year contract.
His first movie was a flop, but his second movie,
the Arnold Schwarzenegger meta action comedy Last Action Hero, written
by Shane Black, seemed like a guaranteed blockbuster. In Roth
was a can with Sony executives at a giant party
celebrating Last Action Hero. Two years later, He's washed up
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and thinks the studio is just using the Heidi scandal
as an excuse to drop his contract. Heidi is freaking out,
not just about the very real possibility of going to jail,
but about money to pay all the fucking lawyers she's
going to need to try to avoid going to jail.
Now that she's famous, that means she's fucked. She's so
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famous now that there's already a Heidi flae impersonator named
Kina Rose who can be hired as a foe Heidi
for parties. When Heidi World returns, Heidi figures out a
way to cash in on Heidi Mania with her own
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custom line of clothing. Yeah, welcome back to high at
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the World. Heidi, of course, wants to control the narrative,
so she tries something risky, exploiting her current level of
notoriety to make a little more cash, or at least
try to swap public opinion over to her side. More so,
she makes public appearances. She appears in the audience for
an NBC special called Comedy Hall of Fame that tapes
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of the place she knows very well, the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Heidi spends the night watching comedic legends Carol Burnett, Milton Burl,
and George Burns receive honors. On September five, she goes
to a launch party for Rick Rubin's new label, American
Recordings at the Shadow Lanes bowling Alley in September, Heidi
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announces that she has found a fun and legal way
to profit off her nascent fame. She is launching a
line of sleepwear and lingerie. She tells The l A Times,
who say that she prefers men's shirts and sweatpants to
garter belts and push up bras, don't make it like
it's going to have holes of your tips to stick out.
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These are the kinds of things I would wear. Hidi
facts is her designs to the l A Times and
tells them that she should have a marketing deal for
the line any minute now. The designs include a bias
cut silk nightgown with a leg slit, a minimalist camusel,
and a garment for Heidi's mail fans, boxer shorts with
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a pocket to stash a condom. Heidi gets turned down
by QBC and Home Shopping Network. She references the fact
that her friend playboy playmate Barbie Benton, was also kept
out of that world. They're too Middle America. They don't
want anything controversial. Barbie Benton tried to sell a line
of lingerie and even she couldn't so. Heidi, a brilliant
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marketing genius, says she's going to bypass home shopping television
by making her own infomercial themed like a Heidi Girl
slumber party. I'll be wearing the stuff and I'll have
on about fifty of my girls to not just twenty
year old, but all ages. She shows up at a
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gala for the National l g B t Q Task Force,
headlined by a comedian Sandra Bernhardt, who performs in a
leather brazier with her band The strap On. This two
takes place at the Beverly Hilton, were seemingly everything does.
Heidi is allegedly met with gasps when she arrives for
the event with her publicist, where other guests include Judith Light,
Jackie Collins, and Kathen and Jimmy. Heidi says she's just
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there to support gay rights. I think everybody should support
this group. This is an important cause to contribute to.
Something has to be done. Heidi also begins a series
of long phone conversations with reporter Nicki Fink, who would
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go on to start the Hollywood Trade gossip website line Hollywood.
She talks to Nikki Fink for Details Magazine and fins.
Heidi flights profile story runs in October in an issue
of Details, with Christians later on the cover as a
feature called Heidi Talks. By this point, Heidi is burned
out on the press attention. Any sort of novelty or
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appeal it may have initially had has worn off, as
her plausible fate of going to prison sinks in how
does the magazine profile go? Take a wild guess via
a gun. I would just shoot myself. I can't take it.
I'm being burned at the stake. Everyone who wants to
see me fail. They're killing me. I'm dying every day.
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It's something weirder. Yesterday someone told me I was being
charged with laundering Columbia's money from so near something, and
I was like, what it looks like I'm going into hell.
Nikki Fink sits for hours of conversations with Flice and
comes away with the conclusion that Heidi is her own
worst enemy. She sums it up by saying, forget all
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the media hype, the reputed glamour, and the five thousand
dollars a pop blow jobs you've heard or read about.
If there is a moral to the Heidi chronicles, Hollywood's
latest tale of immorality. It may be as follows, Young girls,
wherever you are, stay away from ugly guys twice your age.
Fink is the first to name Yvon naj as the
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real culprit worthy of disdain, a bona fide creep, but
she can't help but also condescend to Heidi, who is
at the height of her predicament. Heidi fantasizes openly about
scenarios that would keep her out of jail, some white
knight from her past coming to rescue her. Meanwhile, she
has pled not guilty to the charges of pandering, narcotics violations,
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and felony pimping. Heidi is off the record stories directly
contradict the new image nineties Hollywood is trying to pedal
of a cleaned up, family friendly industry were sex and
drugs aren't welcome. It's just the music business where those
things happen, they claim. Heidi is both astonished at the
hypocrisy of her own clients and surprised that the l
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a p. D bothered to bust her little operation after
letting Madam Alex alone forever. Why did Heidi get busted
now and not earlier or later. Lap D s Glenn
Ackerman made busting Heidi an issue when he became captain
of the Vice Division. He says it's because of her
big mouth that the lap D had to come for Heidi.
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But Nikki Fank thinks the toxic circle of Madam Alex
and Yvonne Nage and Heidi and sometimes Vane's girlfriend Julie
Connister did themselves in by constantly turning on each other
and trying to turn each other in. Glenn Ackerman, who
certainly has no problem running his own big mouth to
the press constantly, also wanted to make a splashy media
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debut himself with a big staying operation. Who better than
Heidi for the l A p D to make up
public example of. Nikki Fink also doesn't buy Heidi's martyr act,
having heard rumors that Flice supplies her girls with drugs
and knowingly sends them to unsafe John's. Heidi also brags
that she's worked much harder than Madame Alex because she's
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been doing it in a recession. Alex's business relied on
oil money, which dried up in the eighties. As always,
Heidi is by turns egomaniacal and self effacing. She's open
and self aware about her drug use, telling the magazine
that Ivan Nage supplied her with crystal meth, but rebutting
any rumors that she's a heroine junkie who's been using
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for six months. Madam Alex is, of course, always available
for media comment on Heidi. Alex tells Nikki Fink that
the cops called her to see if Heidi was having
sexual relations with any officers around West l A. There
were ten girls in my house practically crying, saying we
need you back. Nothing is right now, and I'm saying
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give me of years. I'll be successful at whatever I do,
and I'll share with all of you. If I had
twenty million right now, I'd give nineteen of it away.
That's what I said, and I really mean it too.
Also in October, Heidi's best friend, Victoria Sellers is arragned
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for a traffic stop where cops find an ounce of
weed in her purse and a gun in the car
driven by her friend who is drunk. On October, Lisa
Henson officially replaces Michael Nathanson as head of production at Columbia.
On Halloween, someone writes into The l A Times despairing
the sad state of fame, saying the fact that people
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like Heidi Flice and the cast of the first ever
reality show, The Real World on MTV can become famous
is the sign of a dying culture. November one, The
l A Times runs a story about a sculptor from
Northridge named Russell Michael, who claims he saw Heidie's house
surrounded by paparazzi when he was installing a gate he
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designed at a house down the street. He left a
note for Heidi in her mailbox saying if she wanted,
he'd be happy to build her a gate that would
provide her some more privacy. Heidi thought it might be
a trap, but called and asked Michael to send his portfolio.
She told him that paparazzi and tabloid TV reporters had
breached her driveway and walked all the way back into
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her yard, sabotaging her with cameras by the pool. So
Michael designs a gate that both blocks the hoards and
scares them a little. What impresses me is that he
is self taught and works in so many mediums. He
uses stone steel would It's amazing. The finish gate is
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called as beautiful as it is dangerous. A metal pattern
of vine work and leaves is legitimately sharp and would
injure someone trying to climb over. It's also tall enough
to stop anyone from being being able to look over it.
Flie likes the gate so much she commissions follow ups
from Michael, including a wishing Well Garden feature. Russell Michael
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seems like a bit of a hustler himself. He likes
the press and free publicity and association with Heidi Fly springs.
His biggest venture to date as a sculptor is a
fake stone replica of Rome's famous Trevy Fountain for a
restaurant in the wealthy West Valley suburb of Woodland Hills.
While her clients are running from the very mention of
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her name, everyone else in l A and the whole
country is chasing Heidi Flice. The story has everything a
tabloid could ever want, sex, drugs, money, powerful people, and
big institutions. The Heidi fly story is, to put it,
bluntly sexy, and there's no death involved, although the media
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starts sniffing around instantly for deaths that they can blame
on Heidi and therefore on the very idea of prostitution.
By this point, D and the news media are twin flames.
She is set on getting her story out there herself.
She even knows that a lot of people are rooting
for her. After all, the l a p D uprisings
didn't exactly make the l a p D look like
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the hero cops they think of themselves as, and busting
a nice young businesswoman like Heidi Flace doesn't make them
look great either. And if there's one place that Heidi
can out game the l a p d s longtime
connection to the l A. Times, it's on the other
news media outlets that she can control. So Heidi of
course books another interview with the woman of the Hour herself,
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her biggest one yet an exclusive for Connie Chung at
CBS on November four at ten pm on I to
I with Connie Chung. The l A Times finds ways
to endlessly spin content out of the Heidi story, even
when there's no new actual information to run. Much like
the nascent Court TV, it fills people's appetites for a
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constant stream of content. They run a story about how
the success of nineteen nineties, Pretty Women led to a
bumper crop of movies about prostitutes being developed. Pretty Woman
is a movie starring Richard Gear as a handsome businessman
who hires a beautiful Hollywood hooker for the night and
turns her into a high class lady Pygmalion style. It
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was originally supposed to be a serious drama about prostitution,
and then became a Gary Marshall project and turned into
a mostly light romantic comedy about two very hot people,
one of whom happens to be a sex worker falling
in love. Now, as we know, by this point, aspects
of this story were not too far removed from reality.
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There were rich businessmen hiring women to pose as high
class dates. Don Simpson in particular was known for hiring
Heidi girls and telling his friends they were brain surgeons.
Pretty Women is produced by Regency International Pictures and Disney's
adult film Shingle Touchstone Pictures, and distributed by Disney's Buena
Vista Studio Now just a rabbit hole for fun. One
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of Pretty Women's producers, arn And Milchon of Regency, was
allegedly an Israeli intelligence agent and nuclear arms dealer before
he became a producer. Besides the second generational stuff, another
fun aspect of the Heidi story is how many people
in Hollywood have crazy backstories like this. So Arn and
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Milchon worked for Lekhem, which was an Israeli military intelligence agency.
He got roped in with the nuclear arms dealing stuff
when a guy named Richard Kelly Smith got busted buying
something called krytron through mill Chan's company Milco. As far
as I a person who knows very little about nuclear
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science can tell, a cry tron is something like a
doomsday switch that can be used to trigger perfectly harmless things,
but is better known for igniting exploding bridgewire and slapper
detonators and nuclear weapons. Richard Kelly Smith allegedly helped Arn
and Milchon agal eight hundred and ten cry trons to
Israel in the nineteen eighties. Four hundred and sixty nine
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were returned to America, and Israel said the other three
hundred and forty one were quote destroyed in testing. Milchon
didn't confirm publicly that he had been in Israeli asset
until when it was all documented in a book called Confidential,
The Life of Secret agent turned Hollywood tycoon about arn'tand
milchon that mostly seems pretty impressed with him. In the meantime,
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Milchen's production company, Regency, made some of my favorite movies
of all time, including Martin Scorsese Is The King of Comedy,
Oliver Stone's JFK, and Curtis Hanson's l A Confidential. He's
also still alive and producing movies. Most recently he co
produced The Northman. I know the joke of the mobster
who gets into movies is done a lot, but it's
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honestly so funny that this guy may have come to
l A just to smuggle some nuclear weapons to Israel
and ended up a super successful producer who made a
bunch of great movies. Fucking Hollywood, and which leads me
to the question is Richard Gear playing Jeffrey Epstein in
the movie Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman's original ending was supposed
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to have Gears character throwing the Julia Roberts character out
of the car, and it became a Cinderella story fairy
tale about a sex worker falling in love with her
John Heidie Mania hits right as Disney is trying to
move forward with Pretty Woman too. Also mentioned is a
movie being developed at Disney's other production Shingle Hollywood Pictures,
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called Sexual Healing by none other than John Simpson and
Jerry Bruckheimer, a thriller about a high class call girl
in the world of Washington. D C Captain Glenn Ackerman
has publicly announced that the Los Angeles Police Department has
no intention of prosecuting the male customers of Missflace. This
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official position, while certainly comforting to males who would otherwise
be prosecuted, smacks of a boys club mentality. Would she
can have no place if equal protection of the law
is to have real meaning. November three, Heidi tries to
get the pandering charges against her dismissed on the grounds
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at the l a p D unfairly target sex workers
but not their customers. Hide's lawyer, Anthony brook Liar more
on him later files a motion with Assistant District Attorney
Alan Carter contending that Fleiss was set up in a
sting and should be charged for the tempted pandering, not
pandering itself. November the paparazzi camp out all day Monday
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waiting for Heidi to appear, so she shows up Tuesday,
the seventeenth, instead, when no cameras are lurking and wait,
she sneaks into the courthouse through the stairwell entrance, taking
the stairs up to the thirteenth floor, and appears before
a Superior Court judge whose name is astoundingly Judge Judith L. Champagne.
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She gets the pre trial hearing post owned from that
week to December three. Also that week, a Heidi Flights
inspired plotline begins airing on the Fox nighttime soap opera
melrose Place, the greatest TV show ever made. Melrose Place
was a spin off of Beverly Hills nine O two
Window about a group of gen X sexy singles and
one couple living in a bungalow court apartment building in
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l A. Like nine O two win Oh. It started
as a down to earth social issue show with episodes
about the l A Riots, and then increasingly went off
the rails. The show second season was a different, sluttier
animal from the first, in which they introduced Heather Locklear
as a girl boss bitch and the show's signature hat
fights by the pool. I love this show because it
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has two different types of crazy redheads march across as
crazy type A doctor Kimberly Shaw and Laura Layton as
Sydney Andrews, a chaos demon. All you need to know
about Sydney is that she immediately tries to seduce her
sister's husband. So Sydney, of course gets the high d
FLS plot line, which the writers put on the show
as a ripped from the headline attempt to lure viewers.
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Sydney is approached by a fellow waitress played by Gina Gershawn,
who invites her to meet a woman named Lauren Ethridge,
who it turns out runs a high end escort ring.
Sydney becomes an escort and immediately gets busted and goes
to jail. It's a pretty brief plot line, but it
did serve its intended purpose of bolstering the show's ratings,
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leading the show towards more and more sordid stunt plot lines.
The Heidi effect is strong. December three, the pre trial hearing,
Heidi stays home while her attorney, Anthony Brooklyer makes this
argument that Heidi is being discriminated against due to sexism.
He cites the comments that lp D gave to the
media about how they have no intention of going after
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any of Heidi's customers, just Heidi and her girls. He
also cites a rarely used eighty eight year old law
against paying money or any other valuable thing for any
person for the purpose of prostitution. Glen Ackerman testifies that
he can't think of a single time that a prostitute's
customer was charged with a felony. He can only remember
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busting John's on misdemeanors. When people who live near street
prostitution areas complained about the noise, Ackerman says they've never
arrested a single customer of a high end call girl
or escort service. Ackerman also says the nineteen o five
statute invoked by Brooklyer is known as the White Slave
Law and is intended only for prosecuting sex traffickers. Deputy
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District Attorney Alan Carter raises the possibility of filing charges
against some of Heidi's male clients, which would also make
the John's names public. Judge Judith L. Champagne denies Brookelyer's
motion to get Heidi's charges reduced from pandering too attempted
pandering on the grounds that she was a victim of
a police staying the hearing is continued to December see
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well the cops scrambled see if anyone has ever been
charged for purchasing sex, not just for selling it. After
the trial, Carter admits he isn't sure if it's possible
legally to prosecute the John's and hasn't run the idea
by his boss, District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who is yes,
the father of l A fail soon Mayor Eric Garcetti.
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December four, Heidi makes another public appearance, and this time
it's not even at the Beverly Hilton. It's at a
different hotel, the Bonda Venture in downtown l A, a
seventies postmodern building that was the backdrop for a recent
Fancy Savage Launderie fashion show. Heidi is there for, of
all things, a Classic Rock Stations yearly rock Expo, where
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vendors are selling rock and roll memorabilia and records from
the archives of radio station came at FM, along celebrities
doing autograph signings. Heidi is one of the celebrities signing
headshots for her fans, alongside rock stars like Mick Fleetwood,
George Thoroughgood, and Kenny Loggins. And yes, I found getty
images of this that I will post on the Patreon.
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When Heidi World returns, three Los Angeles escorts tell all,
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welcome back to Heidi World December. It isn't just oh.
I never thought it would end this way. I never
thought it would end Maryland, former Heidi Girl. On December,
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the l A Times runs a triple profile of three
call girls, two of whom are Heidi Girls. Sean Hubler
talks to a twenty three year old Heidi Girl who
will call Maryland a breathy blonde in a short pink
Gingham dress who smokes Capri cigarettes. Maryland came to l
A with dreams of acting and may well leave with
nothing but her pink scrap book of her days as
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at an Hour Heidi Girl, she has blown through the
twelve thou dollars she kept hidden in a teddy bear.
Since Heidi got busted, she's been questioned by police and
tailed by reporters. She had told her parents that Heidi
was her acting agent, so when Heidi appeared on the
cover of People as the sex Broker to the Stars,
she tried calling to explain, but her mother hung up
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on her. She's now trying to turn her life story
into a TV movie to cash in on Heidi Mania.
He's going to be a two hour movie. Mill lawyer's
setting it up, It'll say, based on a true story
of Hollywood. Like so many beautiful girls from all over
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Maryland came to Los Angeles to become a star. Instead,
she found herself working two jobs to afford Los Angeles
while trying to save up for acting lessons and make
time for auditions. By day, she worked as a secretary
for an accountant in the Valley for nine dollars an hour.
At night, she was a waitress at the Rainbow Bar
and Grill, a notorious rockstar hangout on you guessed it,
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the Sunset Strip. She dated her way through some musicians,
but found it hard to gain any traction in the
entertainment industry. Maryland saves up four thousand dollars in cash
tips from waitressing, only to have it all stolen from
her by a sketchy roommate. So when a Rainbow customer
asks if she wants to meet his friend Heidi Flice,
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who she has already heard tale of, she says, yes,
it's time. I had no money and no place to go.
I've never been on my own before. I never dream
like could be so hard. Heidi approves of her and
invites Maryland to move into the Tower Grove Mansion with
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her and the other girls. After a few months and
Heidi's ritualistic cool nineties girl makeover, she sends Maryland on
her first out call. It was exciting. There's me and
one other girl. We went to Paris for a week
with an air of prince. He took us shopping at Chanel.
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Maryland thinks she has a better chance of breaking into
the entertainment industry this way than just by auditioning, and
soon enough, she's at a Christmas party with a producer
who introduces her to his friends as a member of
his bowling team. A businessman from Hong Kong asks for
a year long contract to make her his mistress. One
real estate guy gives her four k for one night
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working for Heidi Flice, she discovers is a form of networking.
She meets everyone in the entertainment industry, trade writers, agents,
more rock stars, and if you can take yet another
colorful character in this story whose high span Hollywood. In
the underworld, she has also introduced to a guy named
Vince Conti. Vince Conti is a photographer and actor, best
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known for playing Sergeant Rizzo on the cop show co Jack.
Shortly before Heidi was busted, the sixty three year old
County copped felony pandering charges of his own and was
sentenced to three years. Conti was not a pimp per se,
but he was an arranger of mutually beneficial sexual transactions.
The cut was not in cash, but favors. He would
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introduce a rich European to some nice young women who
liked rich old men, and return the rich guy would
set him up with a potography studio in Beverly Hills.
Vince Conti, like Yvonne Nage, knows people in both Hollywood
and the world of vice, and is able to parlay
his connections between the two worlds into personal influence that
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benefits him. You know, look, I run in a pretty
good action a lot of people. I got pretty girls
around all the time. They come to my studio. I say, Joe,
say hello to Mary Hanne. What consenting adults do? I
got no control over that. Vince County Conti claims in
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an interview that he sets up his good friends with
aspiring actresses for no reason other than to be a
good guy. His photography portfolio includes the likes of Michelle Peiffer,
Share and Demi Moore, And again I urge you to
read Demi Moore's book for more on this time period.
So Conti introduces our girl Maryland to a European dignitary
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and a former California politician. But escore ing doesn't really
help her book any acting other than some bit parts.
But who needs an acting career when your side gig
is going this well? Marylyn wakes up at noon and
goes to bed at four am on a handful of
downers to quell the night's cocaine. She uses names like
Tiffany and Sheina with clients, earning enough cash to drop
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a grand on one dress if she desires. But escorting
is a gig to gig job, much like acting or
virtually every job now, so there would be dry periods
where Maryland book no work. When she tried to book
work without Heidi through her own connections, she ended up
in some bad situations, like the Palm Springs date with
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a pro wrestling producer who promised her and a friend
five thousand dollars in a quarter ounds of cocaine, only
to pay them with a check, then immediately bounced. When
they tried confronting his wife at her house, she just
laughed at them and said her husband had been broke
for years. Two of the girls in the l A
Times piece asked to be anonymous. The third girl is
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Brandy McLean. People always expect some girl with like red
lipstick and bleach blonde hair, seekin dress and spiked pumps,
But it's a misconception. I don't even own a pair
of spike pumps. Brandy McClean. Sean Hubler describes Brandy as
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athletic and muscular, wearing a cut off tea, running shorts,
and wire rimmed sunglasses, offering the reporters some of her
vegetarian castrole she made. When they meet up at her
San Diego apartment, Brandy McClain has decided to flip on Heidi,
even though she was never charged after being taken into
custody at the Beverly Hilton Bust, McClean is not angry
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at Heidi. She tells Hubler how she decided to get
into Heide's game. I was living in New York working
with the florist two years ago, and there was this
girl I ran with in Central Park, and she always
seemed to have money, and she had beautiful furniture, and
I thought, how does she do it? I mean she
was in nursing school. Well, one day she told me,
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and like I never would have guessed. Sad wealthy friend
introduced Brandy to Heidi. Heidi told Brandy what the work entailed,
assuring her that everything would be on the up and up,
rich clients, no weirdos. She signed up and in a
month was partying in Las Vegas with a rich, middle
aged man. It was like going on a weekend date,
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except it was very lucrative. Brandy, who was enrolled in
a San Diego community college, started driving up to l
A a a couple of times a month to gig for Heidi.
She says she did it just enough to cover her rent,
but there's also no denying she was drawn in by
the more glamorous aspects of being a Heidi girl. Brandy
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wanted to cash in on her youthful, blonde, beach volleyball
good looks, but was too short for real modeling and
uninterested in acting. She was also not interested in a
desk job, nine to five lifestyle, and she was very beautiful,
if too skinny. For some of Heidi's richest clients from overseas,
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there were kids of celebrities, trust fund babies, one European billionaire.
Usually I would meet them at their house, that is
the house their wives weren't at, and we'd go to
dinner Nicky Blair's r Spago or bistro, then maybe a
club and then back to the house and then well whatever,
have sex, do what you want, what they want. While
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Brandy McClain was not an actress, she knew how to
play her role. On these dates. She'd pretend to be
floored by the john's gold records or wildly impressed by
their oscar. The trick would introduce her to their friends
as his assistant or girlfriend. These men didn't just want
transactional sex behind closed doors. They wanted arm candy to
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show off in public. They craved the girlfriend experience, probably
because they'd all been losers in high school. In Hollywood,
the land of fantasy, these men were paying for the
fantasy that a beautiful, fun, sexy young girl like Brandy
McClain would ever want to hang out with them if
there wasn't money involved. But Brandy was in it for
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something else. Money you tell me one job where you
can make one job. A doctor doesn't make that much,
a lawyer twice a month, and then you go. Your
bills are paid. Besides, anybody can get a job at
like the limited. But how many girls could keep a
billionaire interested? I did? Sean Hubler then hits the pantry
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diner to talk with a call girl, who she gives
the pseudonym Leanne. Leanne is not a Heidi Girl. She's
a thirty five year old escort who's been in the
business and she was twenty nine. Leanne reached out to
the press when they were speculating about the death of
a woman presumed to be a prostitute and Heidi Girl,
because she wanted to tell the press that there was
no a way that the dead girl knew Heidi. And
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this is probably about Lorie Dolan. As with anything else,
there are chalons in this business. God, I've slept with
the masses Leanne. Leanne works a lower rung than Heide's
girls the middle four hundred dollars an hour for mostly
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older businessmen and a few former politicians, with a three
hour minimum for a local date. She specializes in charging
the service to her client's corporate credit cards and making
it look plausible that they've just been a few hundred
bucks on a legitimate work expense. Leanne also specializes in
appearing as an age appropriate escort for older men, a
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woman in pearls and sweater sets that one might mistake
for a rich man's wife. But beneath the sweater sets
lie her secrets, and her clientele is not so different
from Heide's. Aging rock stars are a perennial client pool.
She talks of playing doctor with doctors, getting double teamed
by comedy teams, and of the many powerful men with
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secretive private lives where they like to wear silk slips
or get tied up and spanked. One movie producer in particular,
pays her to dress him up as Ava Gardner and
compliment him, Oh, Ava, you look wonderful tonight. Oh you
learn more about men than you would ever need to
know for the rest of your life. Leanne's labors met
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her and estimated three hundred thousand dollars a year, which
by her a house in the San Fernando Valley with
a pool, a jacuzzi, and a vegetable garden. Unlike Heidi,
she purposely keeps a low profile. She bought her mom
a new car, but she mostly doesn't splash out on
expensive stuff. The money is great, but she does feel
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like her job makes it harder to date people. Men
will say they can handle her occupation, then reveal that
they actually can't. They say they love you, but when
it comes time to end the relationship, they're the first
ones to turn around and say, you fucking wore. But
she doesn't regret her choice. What's so great about regular
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old transactional heterosexuality anyway? Do you know how many women
are going to El Torito on a Friday or Saturday
night and giving it away for three or four Margarita's
Whereas I can go for a couple of hours, collect
my money, stop at whatever restaurant I want on my
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way home, decide who I want to sit across from
and what I want to eat, and not put up
with anybody's ship. The story then returns to Maryland, showing
Sean Hubler what's in the pink scrap book pictures of
her at nightclubs, partying with friends in Las Vegas with
Brandy McLean. She asks Cubler if she wants to see
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a home video that she made at Heidi's Tower Grove mansion. Hubler,
of course says sure and watches his Maryland pops in
her videotape of home movies from Heidie's house. In one,
she gives a tour of the mansion while wearing an
Azadien Elijah Cats suit, the girl's favorite designer. There's some
footage from last Christmas, including a bathrobe to Charlie Sheen
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giving his holiday regards to one of the girl's mother's.
Sheen's publicist says the video was made as a favor
for a woman whose mother had cancer, and that Charlie
Sheen had no idea whether the women were called girls.
He didn't ask and they didn't tell. The profile ends
on a bittersweet note, with Maryland telling Sean Hubler how
she's become afraid to fall asleep next to a man
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when things go badly like they did in Palm Springs
or now with Heidi busted, she can get to wondering
where her life is going. She has a moment of
realization seeing a former client in public at a department
store called the Broadway. She locks eyes with the on
who is there with his wife and child, and wonders
if anyone loves honestly believes you wondering what's it really
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like to, you know, make love, what's his like? Not
to put on an act. It's nice to have someone
treat you with respect and buy things and take you
for rights in his Ferrari to star Rosa, but he
catches up with you emotionally. You can't help but see
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the larger news angle creeping in here, again, aiming to
make prostitutions seem not only a moral but bad for
the soul. It seems silly even in this context, because
the clearly stated reasons for Maryland's bad experiences were a
booking on her own and be Heidi getting busted, not
because she posed any danger to anyone, but as a
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statement on the morality of prostitution, a profession that is
older than dirt, but always inside some moral panic. In America,
it feels like Maryland and the reader are led towards
the conclusion of, oh, but this is bad because the
l a times cannot allow the jump to the natural
conclusion that sex work is fine. The issue is criminalization
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and the Puritan insistence in America that this doesn't happen here.
December nineteenth, Madam Alex lists her West Hollywood house, already
a downgrade from Cossa Pussy and Beverly Hills, and her
Malibu mansion. Since being forced out of Madaming by pandering conviction,
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Alex has used her managerial skills to start a catering business,
but catering hasn't taken off quite like sex did, so
Alex is forced to sell her cottage, which was built.
In December twenty three, Heidi goes to the press on
her own ish terms again to be on the cover
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of Esquire magazine's yearly Do Its Achievements Awards issue. The
Dubious Achievements Awards were a running gag and Esquire with funny,
mean joke items about public figures given to various public
figures every year from nineteen sixty two until they were
discontinued in two thousand one after September eleven. Dubious Achievements
was such a hit that it basically paved the way
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for other good snotty, mean funny magazines like National, Lampoon
and Spy. The connection is the house style of quippy insidery,
sometimes very mean writing about notable people. You will recognize
this style from the Internet, where it is now the
house style for everything. So Heidi appears on the cover
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of Esquire doing a parody of a super famous photo
of Janet Jackson that appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone,
where Janet is topless in half unbuttoned jeans with her
breasts being cupped from behind by her then husband Renee Alizondo,
who was out of frame. It was a very sensational
photo the time and spawned a million parodies. In the
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Esquire parody cover, Heidi Flice is topless, staring right at
the camera, her jeans rolled down to reveal some heidiwear
boxer shorts, and her breasts are being grasped from behind
by hands, one of which wears a signature white glove.
The cover line is Heidi and Michael who Knew, surrounded
by smaller images with jokes about Barney the Dinosaur, Fabio
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and John Wayne Bobbitt. Once again, Heidi is showing us
that she is in on the joke. She is steering
the narrative naturally towards where it actually wants to go.
Heidi is not a criminal. She's a folk hero standing
up to the corruption and hypocrisy of l A's richest
men and the disgusting police forces that protect them. How
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are women working in the film industry in Hollywood dealing
with the fallout of the Heidi scandal? Funny you asked?
The Heidi Flice scandal exposes some of the fault lines
in the movie business, a boys club of all boys
clubs that in the early nineties is supposedly opening doors
for women. What does it mean to find out that
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maybe Hollywood isn't actually as progressive as it says it is,
and that their male peers might still see women primarily
as objects to be bought and sold? Is that why
they want to make movies like Pretty Women? Or In
Decent Proposal, the Adrian Line directed movie where a broke
couple played by Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore agree to
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let the girlfriend have sex with a rich guy played
by Robert Redford for a million dollars. Indecent Proposal was
a huge success in and while directed by Adrian Line,
it was written and developed by women. Are movies like
this brave for depicting sex workers as people with minds
and hearts? Or do men in Hollywood just think that
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all women are whorse? Here is a range of takes
these guys really do feel more comfortable in the company
of hookers because that is how they see women. Julia Phillips, producer. Honestly,
I'm irritated that the only power in movies that goes
to women as sexual power. In life, that's the only
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power that men can easily give to women. I find
it very simplistic and a true stretch to think of
that as empowering women in any way. Meg Ryan, actor,
so this is the year of the woman. Well, yes,
this has been a very good year for women. To me,
Moore was sold to Robert Redford for one million dollars.
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Uma Thurman went for forty dollars to Mr de Niro.
Well just three years ago Richard gear but Julia Roberts
for what was it, three thousand dollars. I'd say that
was real progress. Michelle Feiffer, actress at the Crystal Awards luncheon,
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did the mean more characters and control of her body
and makes all the decisions. She chooses to sleep with
Robert Redford and makes the decision. Woody Harrelson doesn't do that.
To me, that is what feminism is all about. Sherry Lansing,
chief of Paramount Pictures, see the problem with the movie.
It's a huge problem is if we don't do this right,
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it's like Wood, He's the pimp and demis the whole
Adrian Line director. Some male critics would like to dismiss
Indecent Proposal as sexist. The only thing that is sexist
is the critics themselves. They're clearly made uncomfortable by a
film in which a woman holds tremendous power over not one,
but two men, one of whom is her husband. Powerful
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women who do what they like with their bodies make
men like Kenneth Turan uncomfortable. Men are very emotional about sex.
Women are practical. Amy Holden Jones, screenwriter of Indecent Proposal.
If they ever make a movie where a man is
sexually arrest I'm there. Gal Sharon Stone actress December. Heidi
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turns twenty eight years old December thirty one. Yvonne Nage,
forced out of the escorting business for now at least,
also has a new venture Technology. NAG is going full
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throttle into the brand new field of CD ROMs, the
digital proto DVD technology that briefly ascended past floppy disks
in the early nineties. More specifically, he is trying to
break into the emerging space of CD rom erotica. A
sex leads all new forms of technology. He has a
new company called mac Daddy Entertainment. Look, this is Mr
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multi Media himself, a digitola. That is my new title.
Mcdaddy Entertainment's first release is a CD ROM called Heide's
Girls The l A Times Pieces. Cd ROMs are compact
discs that hold digital images, sound, graphics, and text, and
play on devices hooked up to personal computers. While the
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consumer market for the shiny discs remains small, Van Nag
believes his product is sure to draw attention. The Heidees
Girls cd ROM is a cachet of a hundred and
fifty images of five women in lingerie at a fancy hotel.
There's also a euro version that has the images with
full nudity. It was only appropriate where else would you
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shoot a Heidi girl, but you know, hotel suite. Naj
partnered on the project with Alan Adler, a computer programmer
who worked at local camera store Sammy's Camera, running the
Digital Images Division a r A. Sammy's customer suggested the idea.
Nag handled the photography and and Adler the digitization. The
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real Heidi has no involvement with the project or the
girls on Yvonne cd rom, and she wants everyone to
know they're probably his girlfriends. Was my response. Who cares?
He's pathetic? What can I say? I am certainly not
basing a company on Heidi Flys. We're just, you know,
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kicking it off with this. It will introduce the company
name to everybody because of the press attention we will get.
Yvon naj says he'll be premiering the Heidees Girls cd
rom at trade shows like Macworld in San Francisco and
the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which for years
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famously took place at the same time as the Adult
Video News Awards, so that there could be overlap between
the two. Her ex boyfriend, Bernie Kornfeld's connection to High
is uncovered by some journalists who try to get comment
from him. He calls Heidi to reassure her that he
is still there for her and always will be. I
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don't know what his financial situation was. I do know
that he was able to come up with a million
dollars whenever he wanted. Bernie Cornfeld has decamped from the
United States entirely after telling Heidi that the I R
s were coming for him, asking for ninety two million dollars,
he has gone to his castle in France, taking ten
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gorgeous women on his private jet with him, but Heidi
Fleiss is stuck in Los Angeles wishing that she was
on a private jet instead. How did somewhere glamorous, chic
and far far away from her troubles? Yeah? Next time
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on Heidi World, Heidi Flice goes to trial in downtown
Los Angeles on pandering charges and she is terrified. H
The scandal has frozen the town. This kind of thing
happens in Hollywood once a decade. Therapy and guys who
have decorated their tables with hookers and felt totally unimpeachable
about it for years. If it's true they financed it
with development money, they deserved to sweat for a while.
Julia Phillips, producer Revans person, I haven't spoken to Heidi
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Flys in sometime. Call my press agent, Robert Evans producer.
Heidi Flies is a family friend of Robert Evans, Robert
Evans press agent. She's a casual friend. I'm not in
her social loop. Elliott Mints, talent manager. I have never
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used to professional services, and god knows I don't need to. Fortunately,
I've never had to pay for sex. Biy Idol Billy
Idol has met Heidi Flies, but doesn't know her well.
There may have been sex, but there wasn't commerce. Billy
Idol's publicist, we knew each other pretty well. Frankly, I
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had a little romantic interest in Heidi at one time,
but she's sort of businesswoman. I haven't seen her in months.
I gotta Scobattle now. Bob Crow, Texas real Estate Air
but again she is a mental case and she does drugs.
But there's one thing you can't take away from Hidi.
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She was very good. And she sat at home and
she answered those bones, and she sent those girls out,
and she worked, which she built up she really deserves
because she worked very hard at it. Julie Connister, rival, Madam,
talk to my lawyer, Heidie Place. My client is a
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virtual prisoner in her house since the publicity started in
this matter. Anthony Brooklyer Heidi Flice's defense attorney employment. Previously
on Heidi World, Heidi's high end escort empire has come
crashing down, bringing her life in the fast lane to
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a screeching halt at a frightening crossroads. Welcome to Heidi World,
Chapter six. Media Frenzy. The Heidi Fly scandal breaks wide
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in the media, making Heidi the most famous woman in
the world and sending her clients into a panic. Welcome
back to Heidi World. I'm your host, Molly Lambert. It's
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August and accused Hollywood, Madam. Heidi Flice is now the
center of a national media maelstrom. What began as a
local story in Los Angeles has crossed into the mainstream
and everyone wants a piece of Heidi. While Heidi liked
the attention and notoriety that came with being a high
end madam, she is not prepared for the onslaught of
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media attention that she is suddenly on the receiving end of.
But Heidi Flie is ratings gold. Her arraignment is watched
by one out of every four people who's watching TV
at the time that it's on. When a woman openly
seeks attention, whether for her sex appeal or smarts, or
in Heidi's case, both, the media sometimes decides to attention
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her to death, as if to say, this is what
you wanted, right. Heidi is completely freaked out about her
trial and the narrative has spun completely out of her control.
Role people are selling her out left and right for
their tabloid cut. August, Heidi appears at the courtroom and
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gets mobbed by paparazzi, who nearly knocked her to the
ground in her spike heeled pumps, dark sunglasses, and conservative
beige Normacamali mini dress. After pleading not guilty to five
counts of pandering and one count of cocaine possession, Heidi
exits out the back stairwell into her lawyer Anthony Brooklyar's
Black BMW. Since Heidi won't talk, the press descend on
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her friends, Victoria Sellers and Benita Money, who have come
out to support her. The media imply that Heidi loves
all the press attention, but according to Heidi, every waking
moment with the paparazzi following her was a nightmare. I
was like almost trampled to death. There was a motorcycle
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parked outside and the cameraman just knocked it over. Cameras
were swooping in under I face. Someone was pulling my hair.
I was panicked. I thought someone was going to pull
my clothes off. I was prepared to make a statement,
but they treated my client with no respect. I'm just
returning the favor. The first story about the Heidi Fly
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scandal in the l A Times runs August one. By
August twelve, people are writing in to complain there's way
too much coverage of the Heidi Fly scandal and that
surely there must be real news to cover. Unfortunately, for
these hard news lovers, Heidi draws eyeballs. Let's briefly discuss
the l A New scene in the early nineties l
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A p D were caught beating a black man named
Rodney King during a routine traffic stop when a civilian
who randomly saw the abuse while trying to get footage
of James Cameron filming Terminator two across the street, saw
what was happening and started filming it on a camp harder.
Despite the hard video evidence of the cops beating Rodney King,
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they all got off in court, which led to the
LA Riots or uprisings, where the over police and harassed
black community expressed anger at the city of l a
the one way that upset the ruling class with property destruction.
It was an echo of the nineteen sixty five Watts Rebellion,
which also stemmed from the l A p DS racist
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harassment of black drivers. News coverage of the LA Riots
focused entirely on the property damage and looting, and not
on the structural inequalities and racism that led to the
uprisings and lootings. The continuing tensions in Los Angeles over racism, policing,
and extreme financial inequality were never dealt with. Rather, they
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were buried, and what came to bury them Tabloid News,
a new channel launched on cable called Courtroom Television TV,
better known as court TV. Court TV is the first
television channel to run live courtroom trials as the entire format.
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It becomes a staple of the then booming daytime television
market as it makes for perfect ambient background noise. In July,
court TV starts airing the Lyle and Eric Menendez trial,
causing a media frenzy over the two teenage boys who
shot and killed their parents at the family's Beverly Hills mansion.
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While the Menendez brothers story was a local sensation, the
court TV coverage made it national news. Court TV also
allowed the story to take on a life of its own,
with every minute of the trial now available to be
parson processed on television. In episode two, I mentioned with
the writer at Sanders called stuff buffs, people who showed
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up at criminal trials to sit in the audience and watch.
With the advent of channels like court TV, now everyone
be a snuff buff. When the Heidi Fly story breaks,
every newspaper and local news channel starts running NonStop coverage,
pouring over every new sealacious detail, neglecting other more serious stories.
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The rebuilding of l A after the riots, corruption and
racism and the police, and the city's deep undealt with
wounds over race and class. But those stories are difficult,
and furthermore, the l A Times, which has been printing
l A p d s propaganda since its inception, does
not actually want to go that deep on what's really
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wrong with Los Angeles. Instead, they are here to talk
about Heidi Flice and to make the l a p
D look like heroes for busting her. But people don't
buy what they're selling because everybody still hates the l
A p D. Heidi is not a violent criminal, and
even though she's a young, rich white woman, the l
a p D still went out of their way to
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bust her while letting all of the rich john us
off the hook who would possibly side with the l
a p D on this or think that arresting Heidi
should have been a major priority in Los Angeles besides
the l A p D and the L A. Times.
Of course, Heidi immediately becomes an l A folk hero,
sort of like O. J. Simpson, although their crimes are
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very different, somebody who serves as a walking middle finger
to all the injustices and hypocrisies and abuses of the
l a p D. Heidi has a lot of people
rooting for her to beat the entrenched system that is racist, classist,
and treat sex workers like criminals. If you listen to
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what everyone says about you, then you become their prisoner.
So Heidi does what any sudden vice lord media superstar
would do. She gives a bunch of reporters exclusive coverage
of the Heidi Fly story straight from Heidi herself. First,
she talks to Variety in an adversarial interview where she
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ends up threatening to leak everything for a million dollars
before immediately taking the offer back. Then, in August, she
goes to The l A Times, who described her as
wearing a denim shirt and exercise heights while she lounges
on her couch freaking out about the charges. The reporter
Sean Hubler, who writes most of the Time's Heidi coverage
and develops a friendly rapport with her, seems to think
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that Heidi wants it both ways, the good press without
the bad. She notes that Heidi got a facial haircut
and her makeup done before going to her court appearance,
and shows Heidi a clip of the endlessly replayed footage
of her. Walking into the courtroom, Heidi shrugs and smiles
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sex cells. On August thirteen, the l a p D
launched one of their famous internal investigations to see if
any of their cops were consorting with Heidi Flice and
her friends. Flies tells the house that she had no
special relationship with the cops and that her most recent
contact with them was when she tried to file a
complaint about Yvonne Nage. She is questioned by lap D
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investigators for two hours about whether she employed any cops
as bodyguards or had sex with any police officers. She
says those stories are nefarious gossip planted by her vindictive
ex boyfriend, Yvonne Nage. She also denies an allegation published
in The New York Post that she sent girls to
a birthday party for Scott Kahn, son of the actor
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James Kahn, and blames Yvonne Nag for this story as well.
James Kahn comments, it's not true. I've had enough bad
publicity in my career. I don't need this. I've got
a wife and two year old baby. I don't go
out and party. I don't want to be trashed. James Khan,
actor Billy Idol decides to milk the press he gets
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for being associated with Heidi, and goes on Jay Leno
to deny it again. We should go around a house
and watch television. Maybe you want to repaint the maybe
play YACHTSI I didn't say that. I said I never
paid for it. By this point, the story has gone global.
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The Heidi Fly scandal is no longer just an l
A story, or even an American one. Although it is
uniquely American. Everyone all around the world is following the
story of the woman who has brought Hollywood to its knees. Meanwhile,
that woman, Heidi Flies, feels utterly trapped, boxed in by
the press and her personal circumstances. I felt so bad
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that I snuck out at one am on Monday night
and wrote handwritten notes of apology to all my neighbors,
telling them how sorry I was for the noise and disruption.
But I ran out of Stationary after the first aid notes.
Even Pompadour Papers, the stationary brand she used for the notes,
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gets in on the press and profits the designers Hawk
the Trumpeting Angel's notepad that Heidi used, which they sell
at trendy high end boutique Fred Siegel trumpeting Angels Stationary
becomes their number one seller, and they want to send
Heidi a free pad to use at her trial. L
A p D tells their officers to stop answering press
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questions about the Heidi Fly's trial because various lap D
spokespeople keep providing wildly different stories. I always hear the
Benny Hill music yakety sacks in my head when the
cops and sheriffs are giving their crazy, lying accounts of
what just happened. All press inquiries are to be handled
from now on by Commander David J. Gascon. The news
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falsely links to shooting in Malibu, too high end prostitution,
and two spokespeople from the Sheriff's department makes statements about
the Lorie Dolan case that contradict each other. The Heidi
Fly story is taking on a life of its own,
separate from reality. Sound familiar. The Internet exacerbates the conspiracy
process to warp speed, but in any medium, as soon
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as a big story breaks, people come out of the
woodwork claiming to have information true or false. Mayor Richard Reardon,
sensing that people are still not so hot on the
cops in Los Angeles raises the question that newspapers seemingly won't.
Why was it such a top priority to bus Heidi
Flis and why are the cops acting like this makes
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the streets of Los Angeles safer in any way? Shouldn't
the self proclaimed crime fighters be going after the violent
crime they claim runs rampant everywhere in l A without
their help? Everyone in town has an opinion. Should you
be going after people in this situation? That's a legitimate issue.
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Richard Reardon, Mayor of Los Angeles. I don't understand vice.
They have to pay for it in the whole eva
so a women who would give it away for one
line in a movie or for no line in a movie,
Ava Kapor. August, fot the I r S comes for
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Heidi as well, launching a formal investigation into her finances
that ropes her dad into the proceedings for his role
as co signer on her home loan for the Tower
Grove estate. While Heidi can handle there being consequences for
her own actions, she cannot deal with her dad being
dragged into it. August, pop star Michael Jackson is accused
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of molesting a boy named Jordan Chandler this scandal trumps
the Heidi Fly scandal because Michael Jackson is an enormous
worldwide superstar. But it's all connected because Jackson is under
contract at Sony, the same Japanese media and electronics company
that owns Columbia Pictures, where the Heidi scandal is read.
Jan Michael Jackson also happens to employ the same private
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detective as Columbia's Michael Nathanson, Anthony Pellicano. Anthony Pellicano is
with mj on his world tour when he's tipped off
that the cops are raiding Jackson's property looking for evidence
of child pornography. Pelicano puts out a counter story, alleging
that the victims family is just looking for a payout.
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All of this effects not just Hollywood, but the Cola
Wars PEPSI had recently picked up two points in market
share from Coke after making Michael Jackson their new spokesperson.
That summer, singer Rick James also gets convicted at the
same courthouse on two charges of kidnapping and torturing women
under the influence of crack cocaine. All this dirty laundry
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is a bonanza for the news channels, magazines and newspapers,
both tabloid and serious. Scandal always sells newspapers, but now
it can also sell cable and local news. US Magazine
plans to print what is allegedly a check made out
from Steve Roth's production company to Heidi Flice. Roth denies
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the check is even real and says he only saw
but didn't meet Heidi once at a Thanksgiving party thrown
by Nathanson. Because Roth's movie, Last Action Hero went so
over budget and was such a big flop for Columbia,
it now invites scrutiny about what exactly they wasted all
that money on. Roth's rise and fall in Hollywood was swift.
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His production company joined Columbia Pictures for a two year contract.
His first movie was a flop, but his second movie,
the Arnold Schwarzenegger meta action comedy Last Action Hero, written
by Shane Black, seemed like a guaranteed blockbuster. In Roth
was a can with Sony executives at a giant party
celebrating Last Action Hero. Two years later, He's washed up
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and thinks the studio is just using the Heidi scandal
as an excuse to drop his contract. Heidi is freaking out,
not just about the very real possibility of going to jail,
but about money to pay all the fucking lawyers she's
going to need to try to avoid going to jail.
Now that she's famous, that means she's fucked. She's so
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famous now that there's already a Heidi flae impersonator named
Kina Rose who can be hired as a foe Heidi
for parties. When Heidi World returns, Heidi figures out a
way to cash in on Heidi Mania with her own
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custom line of clothing. Yeah, welcome back to high at
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the World. Heidi, of course, wants to control the narrative,
so she tries something risky, exploiting her current level of
notoriety to make a little more cash, or at least
try to swap public opinion over to her side. More so,
she makes public appearances. She appears in the audience for
an NBC special called Comedy Hall of Fame that tapes
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of the place she knows very well, the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Heidi spends the night watching comedic legends Carol Burnett, Milton Burl,
and George Burns receive honors. On September five, she goes
to a launch party for Rick Rubin's new label, American
Recordings at the Shadow Lanes bowling Alley in September, Heidi
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announces that she has found a fun and legal way
to profit off her nascent fame. She is launching a
line of sleepwear and lingerie. She tells The l A Times,
who say that she prefers men's shirts and sweatpants to
garter belts and push up bras, don't make it like
it's going to have holes of your tips to stick out.
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These are the kinds of things I would wear. Hidi
facts is her designs to the l A Times and
tells them that she should have a marketing deal for
the line any minute now. The designs include a bias
cut silk nightgown with a leg slit, a minimalist camusel,
and a garment for Heidi's mail fans, boxer shorts with
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a pocket to stash a condom. Heidi gets turned down
by QBC and Home Shopping Network. She references the fact
that her friend playboy playmate Barbie Benton, was also kept
out of that world. They're too Middle America. They don't
want anything controversial. Barbie Benton tried to sell a line
of lingerie and even she couldn't so. Heidi, a brilliant
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marketing genius, says she's going to bypass home shopping television
by making her own infomercial themed like a Heidi Girl
slumber party. I'll be wearing the stuff and I'll have
on about fifty of my girls to not just twenty
year old, but all ages. She shows up at a
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gala for the National l g B t Q Task Force,
headlined by a comedian Sandra Bernhardt, who performs in a
leather brazier with her band The strap On. This two
takes place at the Beverly Hilton, were seemingly everything does.
Heidi is allegedly met with gasps when she arrives for
the event with her publicist, where other guests include Judith Light,
Jackie Collins, and Kathen and Jimmy. Heidi says she's just
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there to support gay rights. I think everybody should support
this group. This is an important cause to contribute to.
Something has to be done. Heidi also begins a series
of long phone conversations with reporter Nicki Fink, who would
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go on to start the Hollywood Trade gossip website line Hollywood.
She talks to Nikki Fink for Details Magazine and fins.
Heidi flights profile story runs in October in an issue
of Details, with Christians later on the cover as a
feature called Heidi Talks. By this point, Heidi is burned
out on the press attention. Any sort of novelty or
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appeal it may have initially had has worn off, as
her plausible fate of going to prison sinks in how
does the magazine profile go? Take a wild guess via
a gun. I would just shoot myself. I can't take it.
I'm being burned at the stake. Everyone who wants to
see me fail. They're killing me. I'm dying every day.
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It's something weirder. Yesterday someone told me I was being
charged with laundering Columbia's money from so near something, and
I was like, what it looks like I'm going into hell.
Nikki Fink sits for hours of conversations with Flice and
comes away with the conclusion that Heidi is her own
worst enemy. She sums it up by saying, forget all
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the media hype, the reputed glamour, and the five thousand
dollars a pop blow jobs you've heard or read about.
If there is a moral to the Heidi chronicles, Hollywood's
latest tale of immorality. It may be as follows, Young girls,
wherever you are, stay away from ugly guys twice your age.
Fink is the first to name Yvon naj as the
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real culprit worthy of disdain, a bona fide creep, but
she can't help but also condescend to Heidi, who is
at the height of her predicament. Heidi fantasizes openly about
scenarios that would keep her out of jail, some white
knight from her past coming to rescue her. Meanwhile, she
has pled not guilty to the charges of pandering, narcotics violations,
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and felony pimping. Heidi is off the record stories directly
contradict the new image nineties Hollywood is trying to pedal
of a cleaned up, family friendly industry were sex and
drugs aren't welcome. It's just the music business where those
things happen, they claim. Heidi is both astonished at the
hypocrisy of her own clients and surprised that the l
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a p. D bothered to bust her little operation after
letting Madam Alex alone forever. Why did Heidi get busted
now and not earlier or later. Lap D s Glenn
Ackerman made busting Heidi an issue when he became captain
of the Vice Division. He says it's because of her
big mouth that the lap D had to come for Heidi.
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But Nikki Fank thinks the toxic circle of Madam Alex
and Yvonne Nage and Heidi and sometimes Vane's girlfriend Julie
Connister did themselves in by constantly turning on each other
and trying to turn each other in. Glenn Ackerman, who
certainly has no problem running his own big mouth to
the press constantly, also wanted to make a splashy media
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debut himself with a big staying operation. Who better than
Heidi for the l A p D to make up
public example of. Nikki Fink also doesn't buy Heidi's martyr act,
having heard rumors that Flice supplies her girls with drugs
and knowingly sends them to unsafe John's. Heidi also brags
that she's worked much harder than Madame Alex because she's
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been doing it in a recession. Alex's business relied on
oil money, which dried up in the eighties. As always,
Heidi is by turns egomaniacal and self effacing. She's open
and self aware about her drug use, telling the magazine
that Ivan Nage supplied her with crystal meth, but rebutting
any rumors that she's a heroine junkie who's been using
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for six months. Madam Alex is, of course, always available
for media comment on Heidi. Alex tells Nikki Fink that
the cops called her to see if Heidi was having
sexual relations with any officers around West l A. There
were ten girls in my house practically crying, saying we
need you back. Nothing is right now, and I'm saying
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give me of years. I'll be successful at whatever I do,
and I'll share with all of you. If I had
twenty million right now, I'd give nineteen of it away.
That's what I said, and I really mean it too.
Also in October, Heidi's best friend, Victoria Sellers is arragned
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for a traffic stop where cops find an ounce of
weed in her purse and a gun in the car
driven by her friend who is drunk. On October, Lisa
Henson officially replaces Michael Nathanson as head of production at Columbia.
On Halloween, someone writes into The l A Times despairing
the sad state of fame, saying the fact that people
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like Heidi Flice and the cast of the first ever
reality show, The Real World on MTV can become famous
is the sign of a dying culture. November one, The
l A Times runs a story about a sculptor from
Northridge named Russell Michael, who claims he saw Heidie's house
surrounded by paparazzi when he was installing a gate he
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designed at a house down the street. He left a
note for Heidi in her mailbox saying if she wanted,
he'd be happy to build her a gate that would
provide her some more privacy. Heidi thought it might be
a trap, but called and asked Michael to send his portfolio.
She told him that paparazzi and tabloid TV reporters had
breached her driveway and walked all the way back into
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her yard, sabotaging her with cameras by the pool. So
Michael designs a gate that both blocks the hoards and
scares them a little. What impresses me is that he
is self taught and works in so many mediums. He
uses stone steel would It's amazing. The finish gate is
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called as beautiful as it is dangerous. A metal pattern
of vine work and leaves is legitimately sharp and would
injure someone trying to climb over. It's also tall enough
to stop anyone from being being able to look over it.
Flie likes the gate so much she commissions follow ups
from Michael, including a wishing Well Garden feature. Russell Michael
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seems like a bit of a hustler himself. He likes
the press and free publicity and association with Heidi Fly springs.
His biggest venture to date as a sculptor is a
fake stone replica of Rome's famous Trevy Fountain for a
restaurant in the wealthy West Valley suburb of Woodland Hills.
While her clients are running from the very mention of
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her name, everyone else in l A and the whole
country is chasing Heidi Flice. The story has everything a
tabloid could ever want, sex, drugs, money, powerful people, and
big institutions. The Heidi fly story is, to put it,
bluntly sexy, and there's no death involved, although the media
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starts sniffing around instantly for deaths that they can blame
on Heidi and therefore on the very idea of prostitution.
By this point, D and the news media are twin flames.
She is set on getting her story out there herself.
She even knows that a lot of people are rooting
for her. After all, the l a p D uprisings
didn't exactly make the l a p D look like
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the hero cops they think of themselves as, and busting
a nice young businesswoman like Heidi Flace doesn't make them
look great either. And if there's one place that Heidi
can out game the l a p d s longtime
connection to the l A. Times, it's on the other
news media outlets that she can control. So Heidi of
course books another interview with the woman of the Hour herself,
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her biggest one yet an exclusive for Connie Chung at
CBS on November four at ten pm on I to
I with Connie Chung. The l A Times finds ways
to endlessly spin content out of the Heidi story, even
when there's no new actual information to run. Much like
the nascent Court TV, it fills people's appetites for a
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constant stream of content. They run a story about how
the success of nineteen nineties, Pretty Women led to a
bumper crop of movies about prostitutes being developed. Pretty Woman
is a movie starring Richard Gear as a handsome businessman
who hires a beautiful Hollywood hooker for the night and
turns her into a high class lady Pygmalion style. It
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was originally supposed to be a serious drama about prostitution,
and then became a Gary Marshall project and turned into
a mostly light romantic comedy about two very hot people,
one of whom happens to be a sex worker falling
in love. Now, as we know, by this point, aspects
of this story were not too far removed from reality.
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There were rich businessmen hiring women to pose as high
class dates. Don Simpson in particular was known for hiring
Heidi girls and telling his friends they were brain surgeons.
Pretty Women is produced by Regency International Pictures and Disney's
adult film Shingle Touchstone Pictures, and distributed by Disney's Buena
Vista Studio Now just a rabbit hole for fun. One
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of Pretty Women's producers, arn And Milchon of Regency, was
allegedly an Israeli intelligence agent and nuclear arms dealer before
he became a producer. Besides the second generational stuff, another
fun aspect of the Heidi story is how many people
in Hollywood have crazy backstories like this. So Arn and
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Milchon worked for Lekhem, which was an Israeli military intelligence agency.
He got roped in with the nuclear arms dealing stuff
when a guy named Richard Kelly Smith got busted buying
something called krytron through mill Chan's company Milco. As far
as I a person who knows very little about nuclear
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science can tell, a cry tron is something like a
doomsday switch that can be used to trigger perfectly harmless things,
but is better known for igniting exploding bridgewire and slapper
detonators and nuclear weapons. Richard Kelly Smith allegedly helped Arn
and Milchon agal eight hundred and ten cry trons to
Israel in the nineteen eighties. Four hundred and sixty nine
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were returned to America, and Israel said the other three
hundred and forty one were quote destroyed in testing. Milchon
didn't confirm publicly that he had been in Israeli asset
until when it was all documented in a book called Confidential,
The Life of Secret agent turned Hollywood tycoon about arn'tand
milchon that mostly seems pretty impressed with him. In the meantime,
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Milchen's production company, Regency, made some of my favorite movies
of all time, including Martin Scorsese Is The King of Comedy,
Oliver Stone's JFK, and Curtis Hanson's l A Confidential. He's
also still alive and producing movies. Most recently he co
produced The Northman. I know the joke of the mobster
who gets into movies is done a lot, but it's
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honestly so funny that this guy may have come to
l A just to smuggle some nuclear weapons to Israel
and ended up a super successful producer who made a
bunch of great movies. Fucking Hollywood, and which leads me
to the question is Richard Gear playing Jeffrey Epstein in
the movie Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman's original ending was supposed
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to have Gears character throwing the Julia Roberts character out
of the car, and it became a Cinderella story fairy
tale about a sex worker falling in love with her
John Heidie Mania hits right as Disney is trying to
move forward with Pretty Woman too. Also mentioned is a
movie being developed at Disney's other production Shingle Hollywood Pictures,
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called Sexual Healing by none other than John Simpson and
Jerry Bruckheimer, a thriller about a high class call girl
in the world of Washington. D C Captain Glenn Ackerman
has publicly announced that the Los Angeles Police Department has
no intention of prosecuting the male customers of Missflace. This
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official position, while certainly comforting to males who would otherwise
be prosecuted, smacks of a boys club mentality. Would she
can have no place if equal protection of the law
is to have real meaning. November three, Heidi tries to
get the pandering charges against her dismissed on the grounds
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at the l a p D unfairly target sex workers
but not their customers. Hide's lawyer, Anthony brook Liar more
on him later files a motion with Assistant District Attorney
Alan Carter contending that Fleiss was set up in a
sting and should be charged for the tempted pandering, not
pandering itself. November the paparazzi camp out all day Monday
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waiting for Heidi to appear, so she shows up Tuesday,
the seventeenth, instead, when no cameras are lurking and wait,
she sneaks into the courthouse through the stairwell entrance, taking
the stairs up to the thirteenth floor, and appears before
a Superior Court judge whose name is astoundingly Judge Judith L. Champagne.
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She gets the pre trial hearing post owned from that
week to December three. Also that week, a Heidi Flights
inspired plotline begins airing on the Fox nighttime soap opera
melrose Place, the greatest TV show ever made. Melrose Place
was a spin off of Beverly Hills nine O two
Window about a group of gen X sexy singles and
one couple living in a bungalow court apartment building in
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l A. Like nine O two win Oh. It started
as a down to earth social issue show with episodes
about the l A Riots, and then increasingly went off
the rails. The show second season was a different, sluttier
animal from the first, in which they introduced Heather Locklear
as a girl boss bitch and the show's signature hat
fights by the pool. I love this show because it
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has two different types of crazy redheads march across as
crazy type A doctor Kimberly Shaw and Laura Layton as
Sydney Andrews, a chaos demon. All you need to know
about Sydney is that she immediately tries to seduce her
sister's husband. So Sydney, of course gets the high d
FLS plot line, which the writers put on the show
as a ripped from the headline attempt to lure viewers.
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Sydney is approached by a fellow waitress played by Gina Gershawn,
who invites her to meet a woman named Lauren Ethridge,
who it turns out runs a high end escort ring.
Sydney becomes an escort and immediately gets busted and goes
to jail. It's a pretty brief plot line, but it
did serve its intended purpose of bolstering the show's ratings,
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leading the show towards more and more sordid stunt plot lines.
The Heidi effect is strong. December three, the pre trial hearing,
Heidi stays home while her attorney, Anthony Brooklyer makes this
argument that Heidi is being discriminated against due to sexism.
He cites the comments that lp D gave to the
media about how they have no intention of going after
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any of Heidi's customers, just Heidi and her girls. He
also cites a rarely used eighty eight year old law
against paying money or any other valuable thing for any
person for the purpose of prostitution. Glen Ackerman testifies that
he can't think of a single time that a prostitute's
customer was charged with a felony. He can only remember
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busting John's on misdemeanors. When people who live near street
prostitution areas complained about the noise, Ackerman says they've never
arrested a single customer of a high end call girl
or escort service. Ackerman also says the nineteen o five
statute invoked by Brooklyer is known as the White Slave
Law and is intended only for prosecuting sex traffickers. Deputy
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District Attorney Alan Carter raises the possibility of filing charges
against some of Heidi's male clients, which would also make
the John's names public. Judge Judith L. Champagne denies Brookelyer's
motion to get Heidi's charges reduced from pandering too attempted
pandering on the grounds that she was a victim of
a police staying the hearing is continued to December see
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well the cops scrambled see if anyone has ever been
charged for purchasing sex, not just for selling it. After
the trial, Carter admits he isn't sure if it's possible
legally to prosecute the John's and hasn't run the idea
by his boss, District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who is yes,
the father of l A fail soon Mayor Eric Garcetti.
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December four, Heidi makes another public appearance, and this time
it's not even at the Beverly Hilton. It's at a
different hotel, the Bonda Venture in downtown l A, a
seventies postmodern building that was the backdrop for a recent
Fancy Savage Launderie fashion show. Heidi is there for, of
all things, a Classic Rock Stations yearly rock Expo, where
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vendors are selling rock and roll memorabilia and records from
the archives of radio station came at FM, along celebrities
doing autograph signings. Heidi is one of the celebrities signing
headshots for her fans, alongside rock stars like Mick Fleetwood,
George Thoroughgood, and Kenny Loggins. And yes, I found getty
images of this that I will post on the Patreon.
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When Heidi World returns, three Los Angeles escorts tell all,
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welcome back to Heidi World December. It isn't just oh.
I never thought it would end this way. I never
thought it would end Maryland, former Heidi Girl. On December,
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the l A Times runs a triple profile of three
call girls, two of whom are Heidi Girls. Sean Hubler
talks to a twenty three year old Heidi Girl who
will call Maryland a breathy blonde in a short pink
Gingham dress who smokes Capri cigarettes. Maryland came to l
A with dreams of acting and may well leave with
nothing but her pink scrap book of her days as
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at an Hour Heidi Girl, she has blown through the
twelve thou dollars she kept hidden in a teddy bear.
Since Heidi got busted, she's been questioned by police and
tailed by reporters. She had told her parents that Heidi
was her acting agent, so when Heidi appeared on the
cover of People as the sex Broker to the Stars,
she tried calling to explain, but her mother hung up
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on her. She's now trying to turn her life story
into a TV movie to cash in on Heidi Mania.
He's going to be a two hour movie. Mill lawyer's
setting it up, It'll say, based on a true story
of Hollywood. Like so many beautiful girls from all over
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Maryland came to Los Angeles to become a star. Instead,
she found herself working two jobs to afford Los Angeles
while trying to save up for acting lessons and make
time for auditions. By day, she worked as a secretary
for an accountant in the Valley for nine dollars an hour.
At night, she was a waitress at the Rainbow Bar
and Grill, a notorious rockstar hangout on you guessed it,
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the Sunset Strip. She dated her way through some musicians,
but found it hard to gain any traction in the
entertainment industry. Maryland saves up four thousand dollars in cash
tips from waitressing, only to have it all stolen from
her by a sketchy roommate. So when a Rainbow customer
asks if she wants to meet his friend Heidi Flice,
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who she has already heard tale of, she says, yes,
it's time. I had no money and no place to go.
I've never been on my own before. I never dream
like could be so hard. Heidi approves of her and
invites Maryland to move into the Tower Grove Mansion with
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her and the other girls. After a few months and
Heidi's ritualistic cool nineties girl makeover, she sends Maryland on
her first out call. It was exciting. There's me and
one other girl. We went to Paris for a week
with an air of prince. He took us shopping at Chanel.
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Maryland thinks she has a better chance of breaking into
the entertainment industry this way than just by auditioning, and
soon enough, she's at a Christmas party with a producer
who introduces her to his friends as a member of
his bowling team. A businessman from Hong Kong asks for
a year long contract to make her his mistress. One
real estate guy gives her four k for one night
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working for Heidi Flice, she discovers is a form of networking.
She meets everyone in the entertainment industry, trade writers, agents,
more rock stars, and if you can take yet another
colorful character in this story whose high span Hollywood. In
the underworld, she has also introduced to a guy named
Vince Conti. Vince Conti is a photographer and actor, best
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known for playing Sergeant Rizzo on the cop show co Jack.
Shortly before Heidi was busted, the sixty three year old
County copped felony pandering charges of his own and was
sentenced to three years. Conti was not a pimp per se,
but he was an arranger of mutually beneficial sexual transactions.
The cut was not in cash, but favors. He would
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introduce a rich European to some nice young women who
liked rich old men, and return the rich guy would
set him up with a potography studio in Beverly Hills.
Vince Conti, like Yvonne Nage, knows people in both Hollywood
and the world of vice, and is able to parlay
his connections between the two worlds into personal influence that
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benefits him. You know, look, I run in a pretty
good action a lot of people. I got pretty girls
around all the time. They come to my studio. I say, Joe,
say hello to Mary Hanne. What consenting adults do? I
got no control over that. Vince County Conti claims in
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an interview that he sets up his good friends with
aspiring actresses for no reason other than to be a
good guy. His photography portfolio includes the likes of Michelle Peiffer,
Share and Demi Moore, And again I urge you to
read Demi Moore's book for more on this time period.
So Conti introduces our girl Maryland to a European dignitary
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and a former California politician. But escore ing doesn't really
help her book any acting other than some bit parts.
But who needs an acting career when your side gig
is going this well? Marylyn wakes up at noon and
goes to bed at four am on a handful of
downers to quell the night's cocaine. She uses names like
Tiffany and Sheina with clients, earning enough cash to drop
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a grand on one dress if she desires. But escorting
is a gig to gig job, much like acting or
virtually every job now, so there would be dry periods
where Maryland book no work. When she tried to book
work without Heidi through her own connections, she ended up
in some bad situations, like the Palm Springs date with
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a pro wrestling producer who promised her and a friend
five thousand dollars in a quarter ounds of cocaine, only
to pay them with a check, then immediately bounced. When
they tried confronting his wife at her house, she just
laughed at them and said her husband had been broke
for years. Two of the girls in the l A
Times piece asked to be anonymous. The third girl is
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Brandy McLean. People always expect some girl with like red
lipstick and bleach blonde hair, seekin dress and spiked pumps,
But it's a misconception. I don't even own a pair
of spike pumps. Brandy McClean. Sean Hubler describes Brandy as
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athletic and muscular, wearing a cut off tea, running shorts,
and wire rimmed sunglasses, offering the reporters some of her
vegetarian castrole she made. When they meet up at her
San Diego apartment, Brandy McClain has decided to flip on Heidi,
even though she was never charged after being taken into
custody at the Beverly Hilton Bust, McClean is not angry
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at Heidi. She tells Hubler how she decided to get
into Heide's game. I was living in New York working
with the florist two years ago, and there was this
girl I ran with in Central Park, and she always
seemed to have money, and she had beautiful furniture, and
I thought, how does she do it? I mean she
was in nursing school. Well, one day she told me,
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and like I never would have guessed. Sad wealthy friend
introduced Brandy to Heidi. Heidi told Brandy what the work entailed,
assuring her that everything would be on the up and up,
rich clients, no weirdos. She signed up and in a
month was partying in Las Vegas with a rich, middle
aged man. It was like going on a weekend date,
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except it was very lucrative. Brandy, who was enrolled in
a San Diego community college, started driving up to l
A a a couple of times a month to gig for Heidi.
She says she did it just enough to cover her rent,
but there's also no denying she was drawn in by
the more glamorous aspects of being a Heidi girl. Brandy
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wanted to cash in on her youthful, blonde, beach volleyball
good looks, but was too short for real modeling and
uninterested in acting. She was also not interested in a
desk job, nine to five lifestyle, and she was very beautiful,
if too skinny. For some of Heidi's richest clients from overseas,
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there were kids of celebrities, trust fund babies, one European billionaire.
Usually I would meet them at their house, that is
the house their wives weren't at, and we'd go to
dinner Nicky Blair's r Spago or bistro, then maybe a
club and then back to the house and then well whatever,
have sex, do what you want, what they want. While
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Brandy McClain was not an actress, she knew how to
play her role. On these dates. She'd pretend to be
floored by the john's gold records or wildly impressed by
their oscar. The trick would introduce her to their friends
as his assistant or girlfriend. These men didn't just want
transactional sex behind closed doors. They wanted arm candy to
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show off in public. They craved the girlfriend experience, probably
because they'd all been losers in high school. In Hollywood,
the land of fantasy, these men were paying for the
fantasy that a beautiful, fun, sexy young girl like Brandy
McClain would ever want to hang out with them if
there wasn't money involved. But Brandy was in it for
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something else. Money you tell me one job where you
can make one job. A doctor doesn't make that much,
a lawyer twice a month, and then you go. Your
bills are paid. Besides, anybody can get a job at
like the limited. But how many girls could keep a
billionaire interested? I did? Sean Hubler then hits the pantry
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diner to talk with a call girl, who she gives
the pseudonym Leanne. Leanne is not a Heidi Girl. She's
a thirty five year old escort who's been in the
business and she was twenty nine. Leanne reached out to
the press when they were speculating about the death of
a woman presumed to be a prostitute and Heidi Girl,
because she wanted to tell the press that there was
no a way that the dead girl knew Heidi. And
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this is probably about Lorie Dolan. As with anything else,
there are chalons in this business. God, I've slept with
the masses Leanne. Leanne works a lower rung than Heide's
girls the middle four hundred dollars an hour for mostly
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older businessmen and a few former politicians, with a three
hour minimum for a local date. She specializes in charging
the service to her client's corporate credit cards and making
it look plausible that they've just been a few hundred
bucks on a legitimate work expense. Leanne also specializes in
appearing as an age appropriate escort for older men, a
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woman in pearls and sweater sets that one might mistake
for a rich man's wife. But beneath the sweater sets
lie her secrets, and her clientele is not so different
from Heide's. Aging rock stars are a perennial client pool.
She talks of playing doctor with doctors, getting double teamed
by comedy teams, and of the many powerful men with
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secretive private lives where they like to wear silk slips
or get tied up and spanked. One movie producer in particular,
pays her to dress him up as Ava Gardner and
compliment him, Oh, Ava, you look wonderful tonight. Oh you
learn more about men than you would ever need to
know for the rest of your life. Leanne's labors met
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her and estimated three hundred thousand dollars a year, which
by her a house in the San Fernando Valley with
a pool, a jacuzzi, and a vegetable garden. Unlike Heidi,
she purposely keeps a low profile. She bought her mom
a new car, but she mostly doesn't splash out on
expensive stuff. The money is great, but she does feel
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like her job makes it harder to date people. Men
will say they can handle her occupation, then reveal that
they actually can't. They say they love you, but when
it comes time to end the relationship, they're the first
ones to turn around and say, you fucking wore. But
she doesn't regret her choice. What's so great about regular
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old transactional heterosexuality anyway? Do you know how many women
are going to El Torito on a Friday or Saturday
night and giving it away for three or four Margarita's
Whereas I can go for a couple of hours, collect
my money, stop at whatever restaurant I want on my
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way home, decide who I want to sit across from
and what I want to eat, and not put up
with anybody's ship. The story then returns to Maryland, showing
Sean Hubler what's in the pink scrap book pictures of
her at nightclubs, partying with friends in Las Vegas with
Brandy McLean. She asks Cubler if she wants to see
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a home video that she made at Heidi's Tower Grove mansion. Hubler,
of course says sure and watches his Maryland pops in
her videotape of home movies from Heidie's house. In one,
she gives a tour of the mansion while wearing an
Azadien Elijah Cats suit, the girl's favorite designer. There's some
footage from last Christmas, including a bathrobe to Charlie Sheen
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giving his holiday regards to one of the girl's mother's.
Sheen's publicist says the video was made as a favor
for a woman whose mother had cancer, and that Charlie
Sheen had no idea whether the women were called girls.
He didn't ask and they didn't tell. The profile ends
on a bittersweet note, with Maryland telling Sean Hubler how
she's become afraid to fall asleep next to a man
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when things go badly like they did in Palm Springs
or now with Heidi busted, she can get to wondering
where her life is going. She has a moment of
realization seeing a former client in public at a department
store called the Broadway. She locks eyes with the on
who is there with his wife and child, and wonders
if anyone loves honestly believes you wondering what's it really
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like to, you know, make love, what's his like? Not
to put on an act. It's nice to have someone
treat you with respect and buy things and take you
for rights in his Ferrari to star Rosa, but he
catches up with you emotionally. You can't help but see
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the larger news angle creeping in here, again, aiming to
make prostitutions seem not only a moral but bad for
the soul. It seems silly even in this context, because
the clearly stated reasons for Maryland's bad experiences were a
booking on her own and be Heidi getting busted, not
because she posed any danger to anyone, but as a
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statement on the morality of prostitution, a profession that is
older than dirt, but always inside some moral panic. In America,
it feels like Maryland and the reader are led towards
the conclusion of, oh, but this is bad because the
l a times cannot allow the jump to the natural
conclusion that sex work is fine. The issue is criminalization
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and the Puritan insistence in America that this doesn't happen here.
December nineteenth, Madam Alex lists her West Hollywood house, already
a downgrade from Cossa Pussy and Beverly Hills, and her
Malibu mansion. Since being forced out of Madaming by pandering conviction,
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Alex has used her managerial skills to start a catering business,
but catering hasn't taken off quite like sex did, so
Alex is forced to sell her cottage, which was built.
In December twenty three, Heidi goes to the press on
her own ish terms again to be on the cover
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of Esquire magazine's yearly Do Its Achievements Awards issue. The
Dubious Achievements Awards were a running gag and Esquire with funny,
mean joke items about public figures given to various public
figures every year from nineteen sixty two until they were
discontinued in two thousand one after September eleven. Dubious Achievements
was such a hit that it basically paved the way
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for other good snotty, mean funny magazines like National, Lampoon
and Spy. The connection is the house style of quippy insidery,
sometimes very mean writing about notable people. You will recognize
this style from the Internet, where it is now the
house style for everything. So Heidi appears on the cover
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of Esquire doing a parody of a super famous photo
of Janet Jackson that appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone,
where Janet is topless in half unbuttoned jeans with her
breasts being cupped from behind by her then husband Renee Alizondo,
who was out of frame. It was a very sensational
photo the time and spawned a million parodies. In the
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Esquire parody cover, Heidi Flice is topless, staring right at
the camera, her jeans rolled down to reveal some heidiwear
boxer shorts, and her breasts are being grasped from behind
by hands, one of which wears a signature white glove.
The cover line is Heidi and Michael who Knew, surrounded
by smaller images with jokes about Barney the Dinosaur, Fabio
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and John Wayne Bobbitt. Once again, Heidi is showing us
that she is in on the joke. She is steering
the narrative naturally towards where it actually wants to go.
Heidi is not a criminal. She's a folk hero standing
up to the corruption and hypocrisy of l A's richest
men and the disgusting police forces that protect them. How
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are women working in the film industry in Hollywood dealing
with the fallout of the Heidi scandal? Funny you asked?
The Heidi Flice scandal exposes some of the fault lines
in the movie business, a boys club of all boys
clubs that in the early nineties is supposedly opening doors
for women. What does it mean to find out that
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maybe Hollywood isn't actually as progressive as it says it is,
and that their male peers might still see women primarily
as objects to be bought and sold? Is that why
they want to make movies like Pretty Women? Or In
Decent Proposal, the Adrian Line directed movie where a broke
couple played by Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore agree to
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let the girlfriend have sex with a rich guy played
by Robert Redford for a million dollars. Indecent Proposal was
a huge success in and while directed by Adrian Line,
it was written and developed by women. Are movies like
this brave for depicting sex workers as people with minds
and hearts? Or do men in Hollywood just think that
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all women are whorse? Here is a range of takes
these guys really do feel more comfortable in the company
of hookers because that is how they see women. Julia Phillips, producer. Honestly,
I'm irritated that the only power in movies that goes
to women as sexual power. In life, that's the only
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power that men can easily give to women. I find
it very simplistic and a true stretch to think of
that as empowering women in any way. Meg Ryan, actor,
so this is the year of the woman. Well, yes,
this has been a very good year for women. To me,
Moore was sold to Robert Redford for one million dollars.
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Uma Thurman went for forty dollars to Mr de Niro.
Well just three years ago Richard gear but Julia Roberts
for what was it, three thousand dollars. I'd say that
was real progress. Michelle Feiffer, actress at the Crystal Awards luncheon,
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did the mean more characters and control of her body
and makes all the decisions. She chooses to sleep with
Robert Redford and makes the decision. Woody Harrelson doesn't do that.
To me, that is what feminism is all about. Sherry Lansing,
chief of Paramount Pictures, see the problem with the movie.
It's a huge problem is if we don't do this right,
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it's like Wood, He's the pimp and demis the whole
Adrian Line director. Some male critics would like to dismiss
Indecent Proposal as sexist. The only thing that is sexist
is the critics themselves. They're clearly made uncomfortable by a
film in which a woman holds tremendous power over not one,
but two men, one of whom is her husband. Powerful
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women who do what they like with their bodies make
men like Kenneth Turan uncomfortable. Men are very emotional about sex.
Women are practical. Amy Holden Jones, screenwriter of Indecent Proposal.
If they ever make a movie where a man is
sexually arrest I'm there. Gal Sharon Stone actress December. Heidi
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turns twenty eight years old December thirty one. Yvonne Nage,
forced out of the escorting business for now at least,
also has a new venture Technology. NAG is going full
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throttle into the brand new field of CD ROMs, the
digital proto DVD technology that briefly ascended past floppy disks
in the early nineties. More specifically, he is trying to
break into the emerging space of CD rom erotica. A
sex leads all new forms of technology. He has a
new company called mac Daddy Entertainment. Look, this is Mr
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multi Media himself, a digitola. That is my new title.
Mcdaddy Entertainment's first release is a CD ROM called Heide's
Girls The l A Times Pieces. Cd ROMs are compact
discs that hold digital images, sound, graphics, and text, and
play on devices hooked up to personal computers. While the
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consumer market for the shiny discs remains small, Van Nag
believes his product is sure to draw attention. The Heidees
Girls cd ROM is a cachet of a hundred and
fifty images of five women in lingerie at a fancy hotel.
There's also a euro version that has the images with
full nudity. It was only appropriate where else would you
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shoot a Heidi girl, but you know, hotel suite. Naj
partnered on the project with Alan Adler, a computer programmer
who worked at local camera store Sammy's Camera, running the
Digital Images Division a r A. Sammy's customer suggested the idea.
Nag handled the photography and and Adler the digitization. The
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real Heidi has no involvement with the project or the
girls on Yvonne cd rom, and she wants everyone to
know they're probably his girlfriends. Was my response. Who cares?
He's pathetic? What can I say? I am certainly not
basing a company on Heidi Flys. We're just, you know,
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kicking it off with this. It will introduce the company
name to everybody because of the press attention we will get.
Yvon naj says he'll be premiering the Heidees Girls cd
rom at trade shows like Macworld in San Francisco and
the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which for years
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famously took place at the same time as the Adult
Video News Awards, so that there could be overlap between
the two. Her ex boyfriend, Bernie Kornfeld's connection to High
is uncovered by some journalists who try to get comment
from him. He calls Heidi to reassure her that he
is still there for her and always will be. I
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don't know what his financial situation was. I do know
that he was able to come up with a million
dollars whenever he wanted. Bernie Cornfeld has decamped from the
United States entirely after telling Heidi that the I R
s were coming for him, asking for ninety two million dollars,
he has gone to his castle in France, taking ten
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gorgeous women on his private jet with him, but Heidi
Fleiss is stuck in Los Angeles wishing that she was
on a private jet instead. How did somewhere glamorous, chic
and far far away from her troubles? Yeah? Next time
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on Heidi World, Heidi Flice goes to trial in downtown
Los Angeles on pandering charges and she is terrified. H
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