Case Versus Fleiss Rests After Jury Views Tape : Courts: Prosecution finishes arguments after videotaped testimony from alleged prostitute. Woman says she worked for defendant.

The prosecution in the Heidi Fleiss pandering case rested Friday after testimony from a young woman who said the alleged Hollywood madam sent her to a hotel to engage in sex for money.

In testimony videotaped for the jury earlier in the day because of illness, Kimberly Burch said Fleiss called her in June and told her to go the Beverly Hilton hotel.

“You expected to engage in sex for money, didn’t you?” Burch was asked on the tape by Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Carter.

“Yes, I did,” the young woman said. “I knew what was expected.”

Unbeknown to Burch and three other reputed call girls, the “clients” that evening were undercover police officers posing as businessmen. Burch testified that one of the officers, speaking in fractured English, counted out $1,500 in $100 bills and asked what sexual acts she would perform for that fee.

Soon thereafter, “about 20” law enforcement officers burst into the room and arrested Burch and three other alleged prostitutes--Peggy Schinke, Samantha Burdette and Brandi McClain.

On cross-examination by Fleiss attorney Donald Marks, Burch testified that the police officers at all times brought up the issues of money and sex.

“It was (Beverly Hills) Detective (Sammy) Lee who first raised the issue of money,” Marks said, referring to the leader of the undercover sting operation.

“In other words, Ms. Burch, you never said anything about money. . . . You never asked for any money and you never raised it?”

“Yes,” Burch said.

Burch told Marks at the end of her testimony that she had never before been paid for sex.

Friday was the fourth day of testimony in the case. Defense attorneys will launch their case Monday. The prosecution called only four witnesses--Burch, Burdette, Lee and another undercover officer who seized cocaine Burdette allegedly gave Lee.

Burdette and Burch testified under immunity.

The trial was in recess Thursday, but during Wednesday’s testimony, Burdette, a Colorado model, said Fleiss twice sent her to a Beverly Hills hotel suite in June, 1993, where Burdette was to receive $1,500 for having sex.

In the first encounter, Lee posed as a Hawaiian businessman. Burdette was secretly videotaped allegedly prostituting herself.

Burdette and three other reputed call girls returned the next night to the hotel suite, where Lee pretended to be entertaining three business colleagues. The four women were videotaped describing what sexual acts they would provide for $1,500 apiece and were arrested when they began to remove their clothes.

For procuring the four women for those five acts of prostitution and a related narcotics charge, the 28-year-old Fleiss faces a maximum sentence of 11 years.

Her attorneys said Lee and his vice squad task force entrapped Fleiss. They also say she is the victim of selective prosecution and that police failed to arrest her wealthy clients even though their identities are known.

Fleiss and her 60-year-old pediatrician father, Paul, also are under indictment on federal charges of money laundering and fraud. In that action, set for a January trial, they face sentences of about five years or more.

Fleiss returned this week to her Pasadena boutique that sells pajamas and T-shirts called Heidi Wear. She had been residing in a live-in drug treatment facility for violating bail conditions in the federal case, but was released Wednesday.