Like a bad penny, this one just keeps coming up. Read more at Fox5 Vegas…

Fleiss Gets Probation In Drug Case

Former “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss has been sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to felony drug charges in the town of Pahrump.

Fleiss pleaded guilty July 7 to unlawful use of methamphetamine and possession of the painkiller hydrocodone without a prescription.

The charges stem from a Feb. 7, 2008, arrest outside a plumbing supply store.

Fleiss, 43, moved to Nevada after serving prison time in California for running a prostitution ring.

She has a strange habit of turning up, like a bad penny. Read the whole story at The Las Vegas Review Journal…

Fleiss pleads guilty to drug charges
Ex-Hollywood madam faces probation in Nye County incident
By HENRY BREAN

Heidi Fleiss pleaded guilty to felony drug charges in Pahrump on Tuesday, but the former Hollywood madam will avoid a return trip to prison.

Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett said Fleiss faces probation but no jail time after pleading guilty to unlawful use of methamphetamine and possession of the painkiller hydrocodone without a prescription.

The charges stem from a Feb. 7, 2008, traffic stop outside a plumbing supply store where Fleiss had gone to buy items for her home in Pahrump.

She was found in possession of six hydrocodone pills for which she had no prescription. A blood test taken after her arrest showed methamphetamine in her system.

She faces three to five years’ probation. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 15.

Beckett said Fleiss probably will be required to submit to random drug tests and might be ordered to seek drug treatment. If she successfully completes the terms of her probation, the two felony convictions will be erased from her record, he said.

“Time will tell if she’s serious about turning her life around,” Beckett said.

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that our favorite ubiquitous pest, Heidi Fleiss, suffers another failure in her life.

This time, Einstein planned a brothel filled with hunky men, for the sexual pleasure of women (and only women). Needless to say, you don’t have to crack the top percentiles in IQ to know that her plan just wasn’t going to work out!

Until we hear from you again, Heidi…

Heidi Fleiss gives up on plan for brothel for women
By HENRY BREAN

Remember that thing Heidi Fleiss said she was going to do but never did?

Well, you can forget it now because she’s not doing it.

The Hollywood Madam turned Pahrump laundromat owner says she’s abandoning her plans to open a Nye County brothel catering to women. With its stable of men, Heidi’s Stud Farm would have been the first bordello of its kind in Nevada, where houses of prostitution are legal in most rural counties.

Fleiss first announced her plans in late 2005. A short time later she rented a house in Pahrump and teamed with her brother, Jesse, to buy 60 acres in the tiny nearby town of Crystal.

In the years since, Fleiss has talked about the project a lot — even agreed to let HBO shoot a documentary about it — but she never took the first step of submitting an application for a brothel license in Nye County.

Now it appears she never will.

“I think I’m going to put all my property up for sale in Crystal,” Fleiss said recently by phone from her house in Pahrump. “I don’t want to work so hard … and deal with all the nonsense in the sex business.”

Instead, she is focusing her attention on an alternative energy project she said is “perfect for Nevada.”

“That’s where the money is,” she said. “That’s the wave of the future.”

Looks like the inevitable Ashley Dupre book is coming our way.  After seeing her painful interview on 20/20, I’m sure she will really struggle to fill 200 pages of worthwhile insights.

Read the whole story at Kerala.com…

Ex-high class call girl in Spitzer-scandal to pen a tell-all book?

Ashley Dupre, the former high-class call girl sited as the reason behind Eliot Spitzer’s resignation from his post of New York Governor, may pen a tell-all book, according to sources.

Dupre has reportedly been approached by ‘another Hollywood Madam’, Heidi Fleiss, who has offered her a money-spinning deal to narrate her part of the story for Fleiss’ publishing house, reports the New York Post.

The 23-year-old had been dubbed as an ‘informant’ during the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal which saw the politician patronising a prostitution service that ultimately led him to announce his resignation.

Though Heidi Fleiss is at about the 55 minute mark of her 15 minutes of fame, this shameless self promoter is at it again. Now she is busy opening a brothel for women, despite the fact that she has been ‘opening’ the planned bordello for years now and it’s gone nowhere. It takes a certain vain outlook to genuinely believe that people are actually interested in all the dull minutia of her life, and Heidi has that vain outlook in spades. We’d all be luckier if she just went away.

You can always count on her mug showing up a few times a year on tv, though – like a bad penny, she keeps on turning up.

Read all about her infomercial, I mean documentary, at The Ledger.com…

Heidi Fleiss Airs Her Laundry in Film

“I know it all sounds crazy, like I’m just a raving lunatic,” says Heidi Fleiss. “But it’ll all make sense once it all comes together.”

leiss, the former “Hollywood Madam” jailed for nearly two years a decade ago, is trying to put things back together when she relocates to Nevada, where prostitution is legal. She dreams of opening a brothel catering exclusively to women with male prostitutes.

Her efforts to make this fantasy real is the subject of a documentary, “Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal,” which charts the difficulties that result – many self-imposed.

Just because she has acquired the needed acreage and hired architects to design her pleasure palace doesn’t mean she’s welcome in tiny Crystal. Or that she’s immune to strange distractions that seem to raise further doubt she’ll ever reach her goal. (One of those distractions: an elderly former madam who lives next door with dozens of exotic birds which, when the woman dies, are bequeathed to Fleiss’ care.)

In the film, Fleiss tells of a happy childhood, of being a child chess champion in Los Angeles whose entrepreneurial spirit became clear in high school when she established a baby-sitting service. But she also speaks of a weakness for crystal meth, and volunteers that she’s inept at a certain sexual technique.

Maybe her Stud Farm Project is a good idea, but, by the end of the film, it remains nothing more than an idea. Instead, Fleiss has opened a coin-operated laundry in nearby Pahrump. The 70-minute film is the poignant portrait of a world-famous personality nearing the end of her 15 minutes, and seemingly grateful for the extra time the film provides.

Produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, it premieres 9 p.m. Monday on HBO.

Other shows to look out for:

CNN’s documentary series “Black in America” continues next week to probe the question: Is the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. still alive 40 years after his assassination? “The Black Woman & Family,” which airs Wednesday at 9 p.m., explores the varied experiences of black women and their families, while investigating the reasons behind disturbing statistics on single parenthood, disparities between black and white students in the classroom, and the devastating toll of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in black communities. A corresponding two-hour special, “The Black Man,” which airs Thursday at 9 p.m., asks whether there are two Black Americas, offering success for some black men but huge challenges for many more. The personal stories of members of the 1968 class of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., (and of those students’ sons and grandsons) shed light on topics such as gaps between blacks and whites in educational and financial achievement, as well as factors leading to the dramatic rates of black male incarceration. Soledad O’Brien anchors both programs.

He’s a private investigator who happens to be gay, and now the third installment in the Donald Strachey Mystery franchise is set to premiere on Here!, the premium-cable network catering to gay and lesbian viewers. The film, “On the Other Hand, Death,” based on the novel by Richard Stevenson, stars Chad Allen, with Margot Kidder (”Superman”) co-starring. Delving into gay hate crimes, it begins with Dorothy (Kidder) and Edith (Gabrielle Rose) asleep on the second floor of their beloved farmhouse while, downstairs, a shadowy invader leaves a hateful message scrawled across the walls. Is this a pressure tactic to get them to sell out to a big land developer? Strachey investigates. The on-demand film premieres Friday.