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Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a former call girl and madam. She was born Vera de Vries in Soerabaja, Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies) to a Jewish father and Christian mother. In 1968, she left her job as the secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan, to become a call girl, where she made $1000 per night. A year later, she opened her own brothel called the Vertical Whorehouse, and soon became New York City's leading madame. In 1971, she was busted 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 own mother. For many 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 [1] [2]. In the early 1970s, she recorded a primarily spoken-word album entitled 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. For the last five years, she has been operating Xaviera's Happy House, a bed and breakfast within her Amsterdam home. Lately she is also renting her renovated villa, Caprice, in Marbella, Spain. In January 2007, she married long-time boyfriend Philip de Haan in Amsterdam.
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