Pandering

by Heidi Fleiss

In a stunningly candid and courageous memoir, the notorious Hollywood Madam tells her own story for the first time. From a lucrative babysitting empire at the age of 13 to a global network of call girls and customers that stretched from Los Angeles to Kuwait, Heidi Fleiss built and ran the most glamorous and obscenely successful sex business in history. Her spectacular rise and fall captivated the country in the early 90's, even as it terrified Hollywood's power elite. Featuring original text, wiretap transcripts, court documents, news clippings, diary excerpts, interviews with hookers, and fantastic original artwork, Heidi tells her story with a fierce regard for the truth. At turns political, passionate, poignant, funny, sexy, angry, outrageous, and wise, Pandering is arguably the bravest and most provocative visual memoir ever published � a book that will make headlines all over again.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2003

About the author

Heidi Lynne Fleiss is an American former madam. She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam". Fleiss has also worked as a columnist and was a television personality regularly featured in the 1990s in American media.

Reviews

[Laine · Rating 4 out of 5]

An autobiography/resume of sorts by the infamous Hollywood madame. Her success provokes excessive attention, and she is aggressively prosecuted for this crime I believe to be (hopefully) victimless.

[Brian]

It strictly a coffee table read for fun.

[Tif]

Purchased from Heidi, herself. Visual.

[Amy Pratt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This isn't a book you want to curl up with on a stormy day because it's so erratic....that said....I loved it! It was interesting and funny. Heidi has a strange sense of humor. I think she is a freaking genius!

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would have been a lot happier reading a straight-ahead narrative than this gigantic wannabe art book. A lot of the book was filler but there were a few interesting things. Fleiss' story is an interesting one, I wish she'd found a better way to actually tell it.

[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is definitely not for children!

Interesting Read!

[no elle · Rating 4 out of 5]

such a chaotic treat!

[Ulrike Bungert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nicht sehr reflektiertes oder aber eiskaltes Buch über Prostitution in höchsten Kreisen....

[Marisa]

I bought it but haven't read it yet

[Reanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guilty pleasure read. I liked the honesty in this bio... Interesting!

[Bridget · Rating 1 out of 5]

felt like I was reading a year book.

[Teddie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not like this book at all. It was just as messed up as the author is.