From Arrowhead Classics Publishing Company "Always a prostitute, never a whore." Those were the words of Vickie Star, one of California's more famous madams and later the owner of brothels in Beatty, Nevada and Death Valley, Nevada (Ash Meadows).
This story is about how a young 16-year old girl from Garrison, Missouri became a "hooker" for the rest of her life and "loved every minute of it."
Death Valley Madam
Vickie Star's life is told in her voice as related to Robert B. Griffith, who recorded Star's tale during a few months of interviews. He then spent another six months collating her story and
finally recorded it in "Death Valley Madam." Star's story is not what most of us would expect after being drowned with the stereotypical street hooker images or the high society call girls/ladies.
Star fell into a world of pimps in the San Francisco Bay area during World War II and broke away from them only to become a madam in Nevada. She knew Joe Conforte (Mustang Ranch, no living in exile in Brazil) and
worked Nevada for all she could get out of it. Her two places, one in Beatty, and the other a famous "fly-in" known as Ash Meadows, are no longer in business, but in a large part of Nevada, legal prostitution still operates.
Death Valley Madam is a good read if not just for the study of an innocent child turning into a rough and tumble madam. Vickie Star
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