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Sada Abe was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, , via strangulation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her kimono. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acqu ...
* Patoo Abraham * Elizabeth Adams (madam) *
Saint Afra Saint Afra (died 304) was martyred during the Diocletian persecution. Along with Saint Ulrich, she is a patron saint of Augsburg. Her feast day is August 7. Afra was dedicated to the service of the goddess, Venus, by her mother, Hilaria. Thro ...
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Air Force Amy Deanne Salinger, known professionally as Air Force Amy, is an American legal prostitute, glamour model, adult model, and reality TV performer. MSNBC has called her "a living legend in the world of sex."
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Josephine Airey Josephine "Chicago Joe" Airey (1844 – October 25, 1899), was an Irish-born American prostitute, procurement (prostitution), madam, and proprietor of brothels, dance halls, a variety theatre, and saloons in Helena, Montana. She eventually be ...
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Brenda Allen Brenda Allen (aka Marie Mitchell) was a madam based in Los Angeles, California, whose arrest in 1948 triggered a scandal that led to the attempted reform of the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.). Allen received police protection due to h ...
* Norma Jean Almodovar * Anita Alvarado * Lily Argent *
Josie Arlington Josie Arlington (1864 – February 14, 1914) was a brothel madam in the Storyville district of New Orleans, Louisiana. Early life Arlington was born Mary Deubler in New Orleans to German parents.
* Nina Arsenault *
Mickey Avalon Mickey Avalon (born Yeshe Perl; December 3, 1975) is an American rapper from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records. Frequent topi ...


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* Wendy Babcock * Dorothy Baker (madam) * Revelle Balmain * Trisha Baptie *
Candy Barr Juanita Dale Slusher (July 6, 1935 – December 30, 2006), better known by her stage name Candy Barr, was an American stripper, burlesque dancer, actress, and adult model in men's magazines of the mid-20th century. During the 1950s, she rece ...
* Fernande Barrey * Jeanne de Bellem *
Richard Berkowitz Richard Berkowitz (born October 6, 1955) is a gay American author and activist best known as an early advocate of safe sex in response to the AIDS crisis among gay men in the 1980s.Gross, Jane (September 22, 1985)Homosexuals stepping up AIDS ed ...
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Diamond Bessie Diamond Bessie (1854 - January 21, 1877) was the popular name given to Bessie Moore, née Annie Stone (although other sources give her birth name as Annie Moore), a prostitute whose murder in the woods outside Jefferson, Texas, propelled her to ...
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Big Nose Kate Mary Katherine Horony Cummings (November 7, 1850 – November 2, 1940), popularly known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarian-born American outlaw, gambler, prostitute and longtime companion and common-law wife of Old West gambler and gunfighter ...
* Valtesse de La Bigne * Madeline Blair * Mattie Blaylock *
Blonde Dolly Sybille Alida Johanna Niemans (27 September 1927 – 31 October 1959), known as Blonde Dolly, was a Dutch prostitute and businesswoman who was murdered by strangulation. Her murderer was never caught. Biography Sybille Niemans was born in Amsterd ...
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Scotty Bowers George Albert "Scotty" Bowers (July 1, 1923 – October 13, 2019) was an American who was active from 1945 to 1980 as a procurer and prostitute for closeted Hollywood film and television industry people interested in homosexual or bisexual l ...
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Gary Ray Bowles Gary Ray Bowles (January 25, 1962 – August 22, 2019) was an American serial killer who was executed in 2019 for the murders of six men in 1994. He is sometimes referred to as The I-95 Killer since most of his victims lived close to the Inters ...
* Sarah A. Bowman * Shirley Brifman * Brandi Britton * Carrie Brown * Julia Brown * Susannah Buckler * Julia Bulette


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* Nellie Cameron * Eylül Cansın *
Betty Careless Betty Careless or Betsy Careless (–1739) was a notorious prostitute and later bagnio-owner in 18th-century London. Probably born Elizabeth Carless (though she later used the name Mrs. Elizabeth Biddulph), she adapted her name to better suit her ...
* Caridad la Negra *
Hannah Chaplin Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Chaplin (née Hill; 6 August 1865 – 28 August 1928), also known by the stage name Lily Harley, was an English actress, singer and dancer who performed in British music halls from the age of 16. Chaplin was the mother ...
* Annie Chapman * Deborah Churchill * Sylvia Clevenger *
Monica Coghlan Monica Coghlan (3 April 1951 – 27 April 2001) was an English woman at the centre of a scandal that involved British Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer in 1987. Although he won a libel case against the '' Daily Star'' newspaper, which ...
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Elizabeth Cresswell Elizabeth Cresswell (c. 1625 – c. 1698), also known as Mother Creswell and Madam Cresswell of Clerkenwell, was one of the most successful prostitutes and brothel keepers of the English seventeenth century. Starting with houses in Bartholo ...
* Lisa Crystal Carver * Andrew Cunanan * Lizzie Cyr


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* Kimberly Daniels * Binodini Dasi * Zahia Dehar * Vanessa de Oliveira *
Honeysuckle Divine Honeysuckle Divine (born Betty Jane Allsup; January 21, 1938) is a retired American stripper, erotic performance artist, and sexual columnist. Her specialty was inserting and ejecting things from her vagina onstage; when she performed at the Conc ...
* Issan Dorsey *
Phoebe Doty Phoebe Doty (died June 9, 1849) was an American prostitute and madam. In 1821, she started her career in a bordello in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City. Over the next three years, she accrued $600 in personal belongings.Gilfoyle 72. F ...
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Dora DuFran Madam Dora DuFran or Dora Bolshaw (née Amy Helen Dorothy Bolshaw; November 16, 1868 – August 5, 1934) was one of the leading and most successful Pimp, madams in the Old West days of Deadwood, South Dakota. Biography Dora was born in Liverpoo ...
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Ashley Alexandra Dupré Ashley is a place name derived from the Old English words '' æsc'' (“ash”) and '' lēah'' (“meadow”). It may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ashley (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name ...


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Pearl Elliott Pearl Elliott (October 21, 1887 – August 10, 1935) was a notorious madam of Kokomo, Indiana, United States. She was best known as an early associate of the Prohibition era gangster Harry Pierpont and later of the bank robber John Dillinger. A ...
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Schwesta Ewa (formerly Ewa Müller; born 16 July 1984), known under her stage name Schwesta Ewa, is a Polish rapper in the German music scene. Ewa's family was stranded in Germany while en route to the United States when she was a child. She rose to fame in ...
* Els von Eystett


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* Christiane F. * Margaret Fernseed *
Robyn Few Robyn Few (October 7, 1958 – September 13, 2012) was an American sex workers' rights activist who worked for the decriminalization of prostitution, against violence targeted at sex workers, and, generally, for the improvement of sex workers' wo ...
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Alexis Fire Alexis Fire is an American pornographic actress and prostitute at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. She began performing around 2000, and has since appeared in around 35 films. Career She appeared on the HBO documentary ''Cathouse'', about the Moonl ...
* Albert Fish * Florrie Fisher *
Heidi Fleiss Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former madam. She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam". Fleiss has also worked as a columnist and was a television pers ...
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Ali Forney Ali He'shun Forney (April 12, 1975 – December 5, 1997) was an African-American gay and gender non-conforming transgender youth who also used the name Luscious. Forney was a peer counselor of and advocate for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexua ...
* Priss Fotheringham * Denham Fouts


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* Ronnie Lee Gardner * Elisabeth Gassner * Jean Genet * Geske * Sakineh Ghasemi * Jody Gibson * Billi Gordon * Raymond Gravel * Mary Ann Greaves * Klara Grön


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Kim Hak-sun Kim Hak-sun (1924–1997) was a Korean human rights activist who campaigned against Sexual slavery, sex slavery and wartime sexual violence. Kim was one of the victims who had been forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army, Japan ...
* Maggie Hall * Lin Hei'er *
Fred Halsted Fred Charles Halsted (July 20, 1941 – May 9, 1989) was an American Gay pornography, gay pornographic film director, actor, Male prostitution, escort, publisher, and sex club owner. His films ''Sex Garage'' and ''L.A. Plays Itself'' are the only ...
* Gerald Hannon * Catherine Healy (activist) * Toni Jo Henry * Richard Holcomb *
Xaviera Hollander Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June 1943) is a Dutch former call girl, madam, and author. She is best known for her best-selling memoir '' The Happy Hooker: My Own Story''. Early life Hollander was born Xaviera "Vera" de Vries in Surabaya, Japanes ...
* Amber L. Hollibaugh * Jason Holliday * Kim Hollingsworth *
John Holmes (actor) John Curtis Holmes ( Estes; August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988), better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character he portrayed in a series of related films), was an American pornographic film actor. He ranks among the m ...
* Sallie-Anne Huckstepp


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Calamity Jane Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Lat ...
* Rebecca Jarrett *
Helen Jewett Helen Jewett (born Dorcas Doyen;The trial of Richard P. Robinson for the murder of Helen Jewett. New York City, 1836 In American state trials / John D.Lawson, editor pp 426-487 Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1972 October 18, 1813 – Ap ...
* Dean Johnson (entertainer) * Mollie Johnson *
Constantia Jones Constantia Jones (1708 – 22 December 1738) was a prostitute in London, which was then part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, during the term of Prime Minister Robert Walpole. She was sentenced to hanging, hang for stealing 36 shillings and a half ...
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Mary Jones (trans woman) Peter Sewally () was an American gender-variant prostitute who presented as a woman under names including Mary Jones. According to '' The Sun'', he would wear "a dashing suit of male apparel" in the day, while dressing in feminine attire and ...


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Hande Kader Hande Kader (1993 – August 2016) was a politically active Turkish transgender woman. Kader was familiar to millions of Turks as a figurehead for the LGBT community after being photographed at the forefront of the resistance against police forc ...
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Kanhopatra Kanhopatra (or Kanhupatra) was a 15th-century Marathi saint-poet, venerated by the Varkari sect of Hinduism. Little is known about Kanhopatra. According to most traditional accounts, Kanhopatra was a courtesan and dancing-girl. These account ...
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Mary Jane Kelly Mary Jane Kelly ( – 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered ...
* Alika Kinan * Moll King


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* La Macorina * Robert La Tourneaux * Yvette Laclé *
Caroline Lacroix Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, better known as Caroline Lacroix (; 13 May 1883 – 12 February 1948), was the most prominent and notorious of Leopold II of Belgium's mistresses. Delacroix, who was of French origin, met the king in Paris a ...
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Vicky de Lambray Vicky de Lambray (also known as Vikki de Lambray and previously David Christian Lloyd-Gibbon or David Gibbon) was a British transvestite prostitute who became a favourite of Fleet Street gossip columnists. In an essay called "London Grandeur"In ...
* Laura Lee (sex worker) *
Carol Leigh Carol Leigh (January 11, 1951 – November 16, 2022), also known as The Scarlot Harlot, was an American artist, author, filmmaker, and sex workers' rights activist. She is credited with coining the term ''sex work'' and founded the ''Sex Worker ...
* Kitty Leroy * Maxi Linder * Alice Little *
Sally Lodge Sarah "Sally" Lodge (died 1735) was an English prostitute and brothel-keeper in London. She had a high-class clientele and knew Alexander Pope and John Gay but lost everything in a confidence trick and ended her life as a barmaid in a public hous ...
* Beatriz Zamora López * Crazy Lou *
Molly Luft Molly Luft (19 March 1944 – 24 November 2010) was a German prostitute, noted for her obesity and lurid make-up. Life She was born as Edda Blanck in Pomerania and grew up in a middle-class family in West Berlin. In 1967 she got married f ...
* Catherine Lynch * Bente Lyon


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* Brooke Magnanti *
Luka Magnotta In May 2012, Jun Lin (December 30, 1978 – May 24/25, 2012), a university student, was fatally stabbed and dismembered in Montreal, Canada, by Luka Rocco Magnotta, who then mailed Lin's hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political ...
* Rosa May * Maheeda * Dulcie Markham *
Chicago May Chicago May (1871–1929) was the nickname of Mary Anne Duignan, an Irish-born criminal who became notorious in the U.S., United Kingdom and France. She referred to herself as the "queen of crooks" and sometimes used the name May Churchill. E ...
* Jamila M'Barek * Fillide Melandroni * Morgane Merteuil *
Adeline Miller Adeline Miller, alias Adeline Furman (1777 – August 24, 1859), was an American madam and prostitute. According to her contemporary George Templeton Strong, Miller was active in New York City prostitution from the late 1810s. By 1821, she w ...
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Della Moore Della Moore (1880–1926?), also known as Annie Rogers or Maude Williams, was a woman working as a prostitute during the closing years of the Old West, best known for being the girlfriend of outlaw Harvey Logan (Kid Curry), who rode with Butch C ...
* Vicki Morgan * Mother Featherlegs * Marie Jonas de la Motte *
Gerda Munsinger Gerda Munsinger (born Gerda Hesler or Heseler or Hessler, also known as Olga Schmidt and Gerda Merkt; September 10, 1929 – November 24, 1998) was an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy (although these allegations were ultimately u ...
* Suzanne Muzard


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* Tímea Nagy (activist) * Lâm Uyển Nhi *
Mary Ann Nichols Mary Ann Nichols, known as Polly Nichols (née Walker; 26 August 184531 August 1888), was the first canonical victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have murdered and mutilated at least five women i ...
* Domenica Niehoff * Rosemarie Nitribitt


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* Jean O'Hara


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* Damaris Page * Maria Pantazi * Barbara Payton * Louise Peete *
Bridget Perrier Bridget Perrier (born 1977) is an activist and former trafficked prostitute who cofounded Sex Trade 101 with Natasha Falle. She became a child prostitute at the age of 12 while she was staying at a group home and an older girl there persuaded her ...
* Kath Pettingill * Willie Piazza *
Fannie Porter Fannie Porter (February 12, 1873 – c. 1940) was a well-known ''madam'' in 19th-century Texas, in the United States. She is best known for her association with famous outlaws of the day and for her popular San Antonio brothel. Career as a mada ...
* Zofia Potocka * Anna Pulitzer


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* Tracy Quan


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* Jurjentje Aukes Rauwerda * Grisélidis Réal * Mima Renard * Elena Reynaga *
Marthe Richard Marthe Richard, née ''Betenfeld'' (15 August 1889, in Blâmont – 9 February 1982,) was a French politician and spy. She worked towards the closing of brothels in France in 1946. Early life In Nancy, France, Nancy, she became an apprentice ...
* Selina Rushbrook *
John/Eleanor Rykener Eleanor Rykener, also known as John, was a 14th-century sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with John Britby, a man who was a former chaplain of the St Margaret Pattens church, in London's Cheapside while wearing fema ...


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* Sally Salisbury * Jacopo Saltarelli * John Saul (prostitute) * Shalimar Seiuli * Aiden Shaw * Ching Shih * Mattie Silks * Emma Elizabeth Smith * Anna Smitshuizen *
Valerie Solanas Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the ''SCUM Manifesto'', which she self-published in 1967, and for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968. Solanas had a turbulent child ...
* Almeda Sperry * Sharleen Spiteri (sex worker) * Annie Sprinkle *
Nancy Spungen Nancy Laura Spungen (; February 27, 1958 – October 12, 1978) was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious, and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. Raised Jewish in Philadelphia, Spungen was an emotionally disturbed child who ...
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Lindi St Clair Marian June Akin (born 11 August 1952), formerly known professionally as Lindi St Clair or Lindi St Claire, is a British author, leader of the Corrective Party, and campaigner for prostitutes' rights. Originally a prostitute, but now retired an ...
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Margo St. James Margaret Jean "Margo" St. James (September 12, 1937January 11, 2021) was an American prostitute and sex-positive feminist. In San Francisco, she founded COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), an organization advocating decriminalization of pro ...
* Pearl Starr * David Henry Sterry *
Star Stowe Star Stowe (born Ellen Louise Stowe; March 19, 1956, Little Rock, Arkansas – March 16, 1997, Coral Springs, Florida) was an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Stowe was murdered by ...
* Elizabeth Stride


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* Martha Tabram * Tulasa Thapa * Nikki Thomas *
Sunset Thomas Diane Thomas (born Diane Fowler), known professionally as Sunset Thomas, is an American artist and former pornographic actress. She was runner-up for '' Penthouse'' Pet of the Year in 1998 and is a member of the AVN, XRCO, and Legends of Erotic ...
* Estella Marie Thompson *
Libby Thompson Elizabeth Thompson (born Mary Elizabeth Haley; 18 October 1855 – 13 April 1953) was a prostitute and dance hall girl who worked in Dodge City, Kansas and other frontier cattle towns during the 1870s. She later became famous as Squirrel Toot ...
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Ah Toy Ah Toy ( Taishanese language, Taishanese: /a˧ tʰɔi˥/, Standard Cantonese language, Standard Cantonese: ''Aa3 Coi2'', May 18, 1829 – February 1, 1928) was a Chinese Americans, Chinese American prostitute and pimp, madam in San Francis ...
* Mary Ellen Tracy *
Tiger Tyson Tiger Tyson is an American actor in gay pornographic films. Awards and nominations Bibliography * See also * List of actors in gay pornographic films This is a list of notable men who have appeared in gay pornographic films. Pornograp ...


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* Carla van Raay * María José la Valenciana * Pearl de Vere * Rétaux de Villette * Sheila Vogel-Coupe


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Yamada Waka was a pioneering Japanese feminist and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period, Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan. Early life Born Asaba Waka in Kurihama Village, Miura County (present day Yokosuka), in Kanagawa Prefecture to a p ...
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Rosemary West Rosemary Pauline West (née Letts; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of at least nine young women between 1973 and 1987;
* Sheila White (abolitionist) * Zara Whites * Anna Wilson (madam) *
Helen Wood (television personality) Helen Wood (born 1986) is an English television personality, author, columnist, podcaster and former Call girl, escort. She is known as the winner of ''Big Brother 15 (UK), Big Brother 15'' and for her regular column in the ''Daily Star (United ...
* Louise Wooster *
Aileen Wuornos Aileen Carol Wuornos (; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. W ...


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* Venus Xtravaganza


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