

It also deals with her symbiotic relationship with her mother. This documentary tells the haunting story of her early life in the concentration camps, her sensational blitz career from call girl to Madame, but most of all it shows how she was persecuted by the American law and became involved in one of America's most famous crime commissions. It sold over 14 million copies world wide. Her book was published in 1971 and became a world wide bestseller overnight. She wrote the book the Happy Hooker with Robin Moore, of ‘Green Berets’ and ‘French Connection’ fame. It became a full time career which soon put her directly at the center of a major NYPD crooked cop scandal. Once her relationship was over, she continued to work for the Dutch Consul but she started moonlighting as a part time hooker to compensate her meager salary. There she had a great but underpaid job as the secretary to the Dutch Consul. Right” who invited her to come and live with him in New York.

She even became Holland’s top secretary and soon relocated to South Africa where she met “Mr. For the next three years her father, Mick de Vries, a well known Dutch psychiatrist, was rudely separated from her and her mother- who was a one time top fashion model of German/French descent.Īfter the war, the family moved back to Amsterdam where Xaviera was a lonely only child, who was always competing with her mother for the love and appreciation of her father. The first few years of her life were spent in Japanese concentration camps. Xaviera was born in 1943 in former Dutch East Indies : Soerabaja. With her autobiographic book ‘The Happy Hooker’ - the story of her life as New York’s most famous Madame in 1971, Xaviera Hollander became an instant best selling author. XAVIERA HOLLANDER 'S AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY: THE HAPPY HOOKER, PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL REVOLUTIONARY
