Madame Nicole

Proving yet again that where there's headlines, there's a hit film, notorious Hollywood supermadam Heidi Fleiss is to have a film made about her – with Nicole Kidman set to star as the brothel boss herself. Knowing a juicy story when they see one, Paramount Pictures have struck a deal with Ms Fleiss to produce Pay the Girl as a potential vehicle for Kidman. After she was stung in the early 1990s for running a stable of high-priced call girls available to the rich and renowned of Hollywood, Fleiss was given a three-year sentence in federal prison for money laundering, tax evasion and attempted pandering. Now making her money in the publishing business, the prospect of Kidman portraying her on celluloid was a the clinching factor for Fleiss to accept the deal as characteristically she's got high ambitions for the biopic about her life. "This should be like Pretty Woman, but with the visual energy and excess of Scarface" Fleiss confidently commented to Variety. "All of the madam movies have been like B-level porn or they've been boring. The world I was living in was not boring." After striking up a relationship with Hollywood's top madam in her late teens, Fleiss cornered the market and the money just kept coming in for over two years. "I ran my business dealing with the top 1% of the richest people in the entire world, people who run countries and whose actions change economies," Fleiss went on. "It was very intoxicating and the money was huge. Then I went to prison. I went in like Barbie and came out like G.I. Joe. I learned a lot of survival instincts." But will the film – like Fleiss herself – keep the identities of her high-profile clients a secret? The threat of law suits aplenty might just make that a yes.