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I'm going to click on another Wikipedia page here and read it to you.

Search personal history on Wikipedia, see what comes up.

So Heidi Fleiss learned the business of madameing from someone named Madame Alex.

Okay.

She was from Manila.

She arrived in San Francisco in 1951 when she was 17.

She operated a prostitution ring in Beverly Hills for more than 20 years.

She sent young women to hotels in the district and on cruises, 300 for two hours, up to $2,000 for a whole day,

including for periods accompanying men to Europe and on cruises in the Caribbean.

By the late 1970s, about 80% of Adams's clients were reported to be from the Middle East, especially from Saudi Arabia.

Boy, that seems significant to me, Jake.

Yeah, yeah.

Feels like a mean something.

80%.

And she was earning $100,000 a month by taking a 40% cut.

So the business is bringing in, what, $250,000 a month?

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