Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1996)

Directed by

Nick Broomfield

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Nick Broomfield makes a documentary about Heidi Fleiss who ran a prostitution ring. He talks to her, her former mentor, and her lover to ask if she is a bad person and how she got that way. The film shows her combative relationships and the fight for control among the people involved.

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What happens

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1996) is a feature-length documentary film by Nick Broomfield. It concerns Heidi Fleiss, then a madam involved in a prostitution ring. In the film, Broomfield attempts to discover if Fleiss truly is a "horrible person" and what made her that way. The film documents the power struggle among Fleiss, her former mentor Elizabeth Adams (known as Madam Alex), and Fleiss' former lover Iván Nagy, himself allegedly involved in prostitution. The film also chronicles the destructive relationship between Fleiss and Nagy, a sort of mutual aggressiveness that both seem to find appealing. The documentary was co-funded by the BBC, HBO, CBC and WDR. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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