Xaviera Hollander

Xaviera Hollander born 15 June 1943 is a Dutch former call girl madam and author She is best known for her bestselling memoir The Happy Hooker My Own Story Hollander was born Xaviera Vera de Vries in Surabaya Japaneseoccupied Dutch East Indies which later became part of presentday Indonesia to a Dutch Jewish physician father and a mother of French and German descent She spent the first years of her life in a Japaneserun internment camp In her early 20s she left Amsterdam for Johannesburg where her stepsister lived There she met and became engaged to American economist John Weber When the engagement was broken off she left South Africa for New York City In 1968 she resigned from her job as a secretary in the Dutch consulate in New York City to become a call girl making 1000 a night 8400 today A year later she opened her own brothel the Vertical Whorehouse and soon became New York Citys leading madam In 1971 she was arrested for prostitution by New York Police and forced to leave the United States In 1971 Hollander published a memoir The Happy Hooker My Own Story Robin Moore who took Hollanders dictation of the books contents came up with the title while Yvonne Dunleavy ghostwrote it Hollander later wrote a number of other books and produced plays in Amsterdam Her second book Child No More is the story of losing her mother For 35 years she wrote an advice column for Penthouse magazine entitled Call Me Madam In the early 1970s she recorded a primarily spokenword album titled Xaviera for the Canadian GRT Records label GRT 92301033 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 Xavieras Game an erotic board game was released in 1974 by Reiss Games Inc In 1975 she starred in the semiautobiographical film My Pleasure is My Business Beginning in 2005 she operated Xavieras Happy House a bedandbreakfast in her Amsterdam home Source Article Xaviera Hollander from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30