Everything about Xaviera Hollander totally explained
Xaviera Hollander (born
15 June,
1943) is a former
call girl and
madam. She was born
Xaviera de Vries in
Soerabaja,
Indonesia (then known as the
Dutch East Indies) to a
Dutch Jewish father and a
French-
German mother.
In 1968, she left her job as the secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a
call girl, where she made $1,000 a night. A year later she opened her own brothel called the Vertical Whorehouse and soon became New York City's leading madam. In 1971, she was arrested for prostitution by New York police and was forced to leave the U.S.
She is best known from the book
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (
1971, ISBN 0-06-001416-4) that she co-authored with
Robin Moore and
Yvonne Dunleavy. The book was notable for its frankness at the time and is considered a landmark of
positive writing about sex. Hollander has since written a number of other books and produced plays in
Amsterdam. Her latest book,
Child No More, is the heartfelt story of losing her mother. For 35 years she wrote an advice column for
Penthouse magazine called
Call Me Madam. For several years in the 1970s Hollander lived in Toronto, where she married a Canadian antique dealer and was a regular fixture in the downtown core
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In the early 1970s, she recorded a primarily spoken-word album titled
Xaviera! for the Canadian
GRT Records label (GRT 9230-1033), on which she discussed her philosophy regarding sex and prostitution, sang a
cover version of
The Beatles song, "
Michelle", and recorded several simulated sexual encounters, including an example of
phone sex, a
threesome, and a celebrity encounter with guest "vocal" by
Ronnie Hawkins. In 1975 she starred in the somewhat autobiographical
My Pleasure is My Business.
For the past seven years she's been operating Xaviera's Happy House, a
bed and breakfast within her Amsterdam home.
www.xavierahollander.com/sleeper .
Lately she's also renting her renovated villa, Caprice, in
Marbella,
Spain. http://www.marbella-villa.eu/
In January 2007 she married a Dutch man 10 years her junior, Philip de Haan, in Amsterdam.
Films
Hollander has been portrayed in film:
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