Xaviera Hollander

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Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a former call girl, madam, and author. She came to be best known for her best-selling memoir The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

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Early life

Hollander was born Xaviera "Vera" de Vries in Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies, which later became part of present-day 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 Japanese internment camp.

In her early 20s, she left Amsterdam for Johannesburg, 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 City.

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Career

In 1968 she resigned from her job as 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, the Vertical Whorehouse, and soon became New York City's leading madam. In 1971 she was arrested for prostitution by New York Police and forced to leave the United States.

Author

In 1971 Hollander published a memoir, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. Robin Moore, who took Hollander's dictations of the book's contents, came up with the title, while Yvonne Dunleavy either transcribed the book or ghostwrote it. The book was notable for its frankness by the standards of the time, and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex. In the book Hollander detailed her life as a woman. She stated that during the start of her career, she did not ask for cash in exchange for sex, but her partners voluntarily gave her money and other presents.

Hollander later wrote a number of other books and produced plays in Amsterdam. Her latest 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.

Other ventures

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. Xaviera's Game, an erotic board game, was released in 1974 by Reiss Games, Inc. In 1975 she starred in the semi-autobiographical film My Pleasure is My Business. Beginning in 2005 she operated Xaviera's Happy House, a bed and breakfast within her Amsterdam home.

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Recognition

Hollander's books became the inspiration for a series of movies, starting with 1975's The Happy Hooker, which starred Lynn Redgrave. The film was followed by two sequels: 1977's The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington and 1980's The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood. In the following sequels Hollander's role was played by different actresses, Joey Heatherton and Martine Beswick respectively. None of the three actresses that played Hollander's on-screen--Redgrave, Heatherton and Beswick--bore any real resemblance to her, and none attempted to enhance what little resemblance to her that they did bear.

A musical about her life was written and composed by Richard Hansom and Warren Wills. Also, Robert Dunlap released a documentary called Xaviera Hollander: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary.

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Personal life

For several years in the 1970s, Hollander lived in Toronto, where she married Frank Applebaum, a Canadian antique dealer, and was a regular fixture in the downtown core. Hollander claimed to have "turned gay" around 1997, establishing a long-term relationship with a Dutch poet called Dia. In January 2007 she married a Dutch man, Philip de Haan, in Amsterdam.

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Films

Hollander has been depicted in film five times:

• The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander, an X-rated film released in 1974, portrayed by Samantha McLaren
• The Best Part of a Man, released in 1975, portrayed by Artistae Stiftung
• The Happy Hooker, released in 1975, portrayed by Lynn Redgrave
• The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, released in 1977, portrayed by Joey Heatherton
• The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, released in 1980, portrayed by Martine Beswick

The real Hollander herself appears in at least two films:

• My Pleasure is my Business on IMDb, released in 1975 and directed by Al Waxman, as "Gabrielle"
• Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary on IMDb, a documentary released in 2008 and directed, jointly produced, cinematographed, and edited by Robert Dunlap, to whose script for it she made additional writing contributions

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Bibliography

Non-fiction

• Robin Moore; Yvonne Dunleavy; Xaviera de Vries Hollander (1971). The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. Sphere Books. ISBN 0-900735-13-9. 

Moore took Hollander's dictation, and Dunleavy transcribed the results.

• Letters to the Happy Hooker. New York: Warner Paperback Library. 1973. ISBN 0-446-78277-7. 
• Xaviera!: Her Continuing Adventures. New York: Warner Paperback Library. 1973. 
• Xaviera Goes Wild. New York: Warner Paperback Library. 1974. 
• Xaviera on the Best Part of a Man. New York: New American Library. 1975. 
• Marilyn Chambers (1976). Xaviera Meets Marilyn Chambers. New York: Warner Paperback Library. 
• Xaviera's Supersex: Her Personal Techniques for Total Lovemaking. New York: New American Library. 1976. 
• Xaviera's Fantastic Sex. New York: New American Library. 1978. ISBN 0-451-15104-6. 
• Xaviera's Magic Mushrooms. Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library. 1981. ISBN 0-450-05064-5. 
• The Inner Circle. London: Granada. 1983. 
• Fiesta of the Flesh. London: Panther. 1984. ISBN 0-586-06195-9. 
• The Best of Xaviera. Sydney: Horwitz Grahame. 1985. ISBN 0-7255-1841-3. 
• Knights in the Garden of Spain. London: Grafton. 1988. ISBN 0-586-07432-5. 
• Child No More: A Memoir. New York: ReganBooks. 2002. ISBN 0-06-001417-2. 
• The Happy Hooker's Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex: 69 Orgasmic Ways to Pleasure a Woman. New York: Skyhorse Pub. 2008. ISBN 1-60239-240-4. 

Fiction

• Lucinda, My Lovely. Henley-on-Thames. 1983. ISBN 978-0-85628-118-1. 
• Lucinda: Hot Nights on Xanthos. Henley-on-Thames. 1984. ISBN 0-85628-129-8. (Originally published 1983) 
• Erotic Enterprises Inc. Henley-on-Thames: Ellis. 1985. ISBN 0-85628-142-5. 
• Co-written with John Drummond: Happily Hooked. Panther. 1985. ISBN 0-586-06399-4. 
• The Erotic Adventures of Sandra. 1986. 
• The Kiss of the Serpent. Grafton. 1987. ISBN 0-586-07040-0. 
• Yours Fatally!: Book One of the Golden Phallus of Osiris Trilogy. London. 1987. ISBN 0-586-07039-7. 
• Co-written with John Drummond: Let's Get Moving. Grafton. 1988. ISBN 0-586-07431-7. 
• Prisoner of the Firebird. Grafton. 1988. ISBN 0-586-07041-9. 
• Lucinda and Other Lovelies. Ellis. 1990. ISBN 0-85628-198-0. Collects Lucinda, My Lovely; Lucinda: Hot Nights on Xanthos; and Erotic Enterprises Inc. 

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Xaviera Hollander on IMDb

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