The State - News from Feb. 17, 1986

Jack and Julie Hickman want to sell their two Nevada brothels and return to Los Angeles for the sake of Chastity--the couple’s newly adopted 4-year-old daughter. “The main reason we’re selling out is that we have adopted a little kid and we don’t want to raise her up with the burden of her parents running a brothel,” Jack Hickman, 45, a former ironworker who has been managing the legal houses of prostitution for four years, said in Sacramento. The Hickmans took out ads in several newspapers in California, Nevada and Florida offering to sell the two brothels in Battle Mountain, a small Nevada mining town west of Elko. The couple is asking $750,000 for the brothels and a women’s clothing boutique. “We want to move back to Los Angeles, where there are more opportunities for a child,” Julie Hickman, 33, said. “We waited eight years to get a child and when the adoption went through in July, that changed everything. That’s when we decided it would be better if we sold.”