Xaviera hollander bio

Related e. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. Xaviera Hollander born 15 June is a former call girl , madam , and memoirist. She spent the first three years of her life in a Japanese internment camp.

Xaviera hollander bio: Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June )

In her early 20s, she left Amsterdam for Johannesburg , South Africa , where her stepsister lived. There she met and became engaged to John Weber, an American economist. When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for New York. A year later she opened her own brothel called the Vertical Whorehouse and soon became New York City 's leading madam.

In , she was arrested for prostitution by New York police and was forced to leave the United States. The book was notable for its frankness by the standards of the time, and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex. Hollander details in the book her life as an open-minded girl.