I am from Los Angeles and I was a kid when the Heidi Fleiss scandal broke. What first drew you to Heidi Fleiss’s story? personalities, actors, and collaborators to bring the story to life (with the captivating actress Annie Hamilton voicing Fleiss) what media narratives about sex work miss and why America still can’t get over our hang-ups. Lambert spoke with about casting the pod with dozens of L.A. It’s a question that runs through Lambert’s new podcast, “Heidi World.” The 10-episode series, the first episode of which is out today, traces Fleiss’s rise to infamy: growing up the daughter of a progressive pediatrician-to-the-stars in crunchy Los Feliz, making a name for herself on the party-girl circuit, and, finally, becoming a powerful madam with a stable of hundreds of high-class escorts and an A-list black book ( reportedly actually a red Gucci planner) of Hollywood’s rich and powerful-before it all came crashing down. Why was this woman being hassled for selling something people wanted to buy? When the story of “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss’s arrest broke in June 1993, it simply didn’t compute for writer Molly Lambert, who was growing up in Los Angeles at the time.
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