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Kidman Doing Heidi Fleiss?
Sex, celebrities and a sensational trial--the life of former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss has all the makings of a blockbuster movie.
And don't think Tinseltown hasn't noticed.
Paramount Pictures is going ahead with a feature based on Fleiss' dirty dealings, titled Pay the Girl. The film was developed with Nicole Kidman in mind to play the former high-class working girl.
One of Pay the Girl's producers confirmed to E! Online Wednesday that Kidman has met with the movie's screenwriter, Lisa Schrager.
But Kidman's publicist, Toby Fleischman, was quick to say, "It is extremely premature to talk about her actual involvement. There is no script, no director, it is just a project she is simply willing to consider at this point."
The Aussie actress' interest was reportedly a major incentive for Fleiss to kiss and tell. How much Fleiss received for selling the rights to the sordid story has not been disclosed.
But Hollywood attorneys can stand down. The movie "won't name names," said producer Larry Kennar, a reference to Fleiss' vow of silence over the identity of her high-profile clients. "It's about her rise and fall, how she got to the top of this game and was really good at it."
"This should be like Pretty Woman, but with the visual energy and excess of Scarface," Fleiss told 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."
Fleiss, 37, the daughter of a doctor to the stars, provided high-priced call girls to Hollywood players.
"I cornered the market and stayed on top for two and a half years," the former madam told the trade paper. "I ran my business dealing with the top one percent of the richest people in the entire world, people who run countries and whose actions change economies. 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."
Fleiss' bust in a federal sting spawned the 1996 documentary Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam.
She was sentenced in 1997 to three years in prison for money laundering, tax evasion and attempted pandering, but she was released after two years for good behavior.
All along, Fleiss kept the contents of her little black book private. Charlie Sheen, who testified to blowing $50,000 on Fleiss' $2,500-a-night escorts, was one of the few celebrities outed by the trial.
Fleiss' memoir, Pandering: The Scrapbooks of Heidi Fleiss, detailing her voyage from babysitter to sex-trade boss, was released this month.
Meanwhile, Fleiss isn't the only family member wheeling and dealing in the city of (fallen) angels. Second cousin Mike Fleiss, executive producer of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, continues to mine the seamier side of life for television material.
He's working on two new reality series for ABC. The Will asks greedy relatives to compete for a major family inheritance while Are You Hot? allows Americans to decide which camera-ready contestant should be crowned the country's sexiest babe. Meanwhile, his third installment of The Bachelor is set for a March 26 debut.
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