Call Girl Probe Turns to Woman’s Drug Death : Law enforcement: College student was taken to the hospital by an associate of Fleiss and Nagy. Authorities say there is no evidence that she worked with the accused madam.

As law enforcement officials probe upscale prostitution in Los Angeles, sources close to the investigation say authorities have focused new attention on a recent drug overdose of a 22-year-old Tarzana woman who collapsed at an apartment belonging to an associate of accused madam Heidi Fleiss and her ex-boyfriend, accused panderer Ivan Nagy.

Laurie Dolan died March 2 after languishing in a coma at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for three days. The coroner’s report lists her cause of death as a drug overdose, and doctors said cocaine, morphine, codeine and other substances were found in Dolan’s system.

Although coroner’s investigators listed the death as accidental, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said deputies are continuing to probe Dolan’s death.

“They’re investigating,” said Deputy Britta Tubbs. “There is no information . . . that Ms. Dolan was a prostitute” or that she worked with Fleiss, Tubbs added, an assessment echoed by other law enforcement sources.

Fleiss’ lawyer, Anthony Brooklier, said Fleiss had no relationship with Dolan. “My client doesn’t know her and has never met her,” Brooklier said.

Officials with the Los Angeles Police Department declined to comment on whether the LAPD is investigating Dolan’s death, but the man whose apartment she collapsed at and who brought her to the hospital has been linked both to Fleiss and her ex-boyfriend, Nagy. According to both Fleiss and Nagy, that man, Jacob (Cookie) Orgad, traveled in their circles, and law enforcement sources said that his connection to Dolan’s death has sparked the interest of investigators.

Authorities say they are aware of a tape-recorded conversation that features Nagy and Orgad speaking to each other and discussing Fleiss at length. But law enforcement officials say they do not have the tape and do not intend to use it as evidence.

Although he has not been arrested or charged with any crime, Orgad has hired Terrence A. Roden, a Los Angeles lawyer, to represent him. Roden said Orgad was unavailable for an interview, and Roden also declined to comment. Nagy and his lawyer did not return phone calls requesting comment.

Nagy is the ex-boyfriend of accused madam Fleiss, who pleaded not guilty Monday to felony pandering and narcotics charges. Nagy, a film and television director, was arrested last week on suspicion of pandering. He and Fleiss had a brief romantic relationship and a long, acrimonious breakup, and police have charged that they ran separate upscale call girl rings.

According to the coroner’s report on Dolan’s death, friends told investigators that Dolan and several other people spent the night of Feb. 26 drinking and using drugs. The report says the group visited a local restaurant and nightclub, and that Dolan passed out on the way home.

Rather than take Dolan to a hospital, Orgad and another friend, Lee Booth, allegedly left her alone to sleep at Orgad’s La Cienega apartment. Booth, according to the report, left for work early the next morning and Orgad continued to let Dolan “sleep it off.”

At 5 p.m., Orgad, still unable to wake Dolan, took the advice of a neighbor and drove her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dolan never came out of her coma, dying at 11:30 a.m. on March 2.

Dolan’s mother, Cheryl Dolan, said Tuesday that as far as she knew, her daughter did not know either Fleiss or Nagy.

“She did know this Cookie Orgad,” Dolan said, pausing frequently to choke back tears. “She met this Cookie at one of those clubs, but they were just friends. . . . Laurie had a boyfriend.”

Laurie Dolan, a pretty woman with long, sandy-blond hair, was a student at Cal State Northridge and was taking acting classes, her mother said. She was scheduled to graduate this year, her mother added, and worked full time as a waitress.

Kathy Palumbo, manager of the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas, where Laurie Dolan had worked for two years, said Dolan’s death, combined with the new interest sparked by the Fleiss and Nagy investigations, has left employees stunned.

“This whole thing is a real shock to everybody at the restaurant,” Palumbo said. “She was a sweetheart, a real nice girl.”

Cheryl Dolan described her daughter as a hard-working young woman who was “warm, sensitive and caring.”

Dolan said she was heartened to learn that investigators are continuing to probe the circumstances of her daughter’s death. But, with her voice cracking, Dolan acknowledged that no investigation will ever heal her family’s wounds.

“It’s not going to bring Laurie back. Nothing will do that,” she said. “It was just a big mistake that she was out with that group that night. It was just a big mistake that shouldn’t have happened.”

Times staff writers Henry Weinstein, Alan Citron and Sharon Bernstein contributed to this story.