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By The Associated Press - 07/02/2007

Fleiss

Heidi Fleiss opens ‘Dirty Laundry’ west of Las Vegas LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is diversifying, airing her Dirty Laundry in Nevada as she makes plans for a legal brothel for women.

Dirty Laundry is a 24-hour, coin-operated laundry — 13 washers and 14 dryers — the one-time leader of a high-priced ring of call girls to the stars is opening at a shopping center in Pahrump, west of Las Vegas.

Fleiss, who has become an avid collector of parrots and macaws since moving to Pahrump, said she decided to open the laundromat after the death of one of her pets, a macaw named Dalton.

‘‘I had to force myself to do something,’’ she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. ‘‘Nothing in my 41 years — nothing — ever affected me like this.’’