Celebrity Big Brother star makes major career change after stint in jail
03.03.2024 - 12:51
/ ok.co.uk
Celebrity Big Brother star Heidi Fleiss may have once been a high-class madam before launching a TV career, however the US personality has moved into a completely different job. Heidi, 58, took part in Celebrity Big Brother's 2010 series - which was won by Katie Price's ex Alex Reid - coming in 11th place.
The reality star was one of the most talked-about women in the world when she was arrested in 1993 for running a high-end prostitution ring. Known as the Hollywood Madam, she reportedly had an elite client list and was said to earn $560k (£442k) a week.
However, her empire fell apart in June 1993 when she was arrested and charged with five counts of pandering. She was later sentenced to seven years in prison on separate federal tax evasion and money laundering charges. Now, Heidi lives a very different life away from LA and showbiz.
The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant works at a bird sanctuary in the Nevada desert, rescuing macaws. She refers to herself as a "retired Hollywood Madam turned active Macaw patroness." It's believed that Heidi owns 23 exotic and endangered birds, some of which she has reportedly travelled to the "ends of the earth" to acquire, reports The Daily Star. In 2022, Heidi claimed that someone injured one of her macaws before Christmas of the previous year by shooting it in the leg with a pellet gun.
Heidi is so upset about her pet being shot that she's offering a £3,900 reward to catch who did it. She told the local newspaper: "I want to castrate him, I want them to get the death penalty for shooting my little Chuey, who was just flying around doing nothing - and they shoot her." Heidi isn't just famous for her pets. She wrote a book called Pandering in 2002 and another one about dating in
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