[KevinG]

I still think Heidi Fleiss would be fun to party with. Does anyone have her number? Maybe we could do a web site together?

Anyway ...

With Brothel Plans Delayed, a Madame Does Laundry

PAHRUMP, Nev. — Sex is the commodity that Heidi Fleiss says she knows best, but for now she is settling for fabric softener.

Since her release from prison after serving a three-year sentence on tax-evasion, money-laundering and pandering charges, Ms. Fleiss, once known as the Hollywood Madam, has made a go as retailer, author and promoter for a publicly traded sex business in Australia.

Now Ms. Fleiss, whose Los Angeles prostitution ring served wealthy denizens of Hollywood and high finance, said she planned to open a brothel here in Nye County, one of several counties in Nevada that permit prostitution. Her brothel, she said, would offer a twist: she would have only male prostitutes, serving a female customer base.

Ms. Fleiss also plans to take over a massage parlor attached to a strip club.

But these professional goals have been stymied by legal issues surrounding another brothel owner, and the matter of a license application that she has yet to complete.

For now, Ms. Fleiss is overseeing a small coin-operated laundry here, some 60 miles west of Las Vegas and near her home in Crystal, where she hopes to build her brothel.

“I tried to pick a business that fit with the demographics of the community,” Ms. Fleiss said about her casino-themed business, Dirty Laundry, which features panels from slot machines in its decoration and a rather pleasant, dimly lit restroom.

There is more to the story. But first, a quick quiz on Ms. Fleiss:

1. After being released from prison in 1999, did she sell A) jewel-toned cellphones, Hollywood Madam sweat pants or C) futons?

2. Ms. Fleiss now collects A) exotic parrots, Maltese poodles or C) beta fish?

3. Was the famous client to emerge during Ms. Fleiss’s pandering trial A) Charles Nelson Reilly, Captain Kangaroo or C) Charlie Sheen?

The answers are B, A and C.

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