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Tricks Of The Trade

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Tricks Of The Trade

When Heidi Fleiss left federal prison last week for a halfway house,we found ourselves reminiscing about other famous whoremasters. So The Smoking Gun dug up these excerpts from an entertaining deposition once given by Sydney Biddle Barrows to the President's Commission on Organized Crime. Dubbed the "Mayflower Madam" because of her blue blood lineage, Barrows ran Cachet, an upscale New York City call girl ring (until, of course, cops raided her bustling shop). Here, Barrows tells federal investigators about the ABC's of her pricing plan and the trouble with Arab johns. (6 pages)