Fleiss Defense Airs Complete Version of Vice Sting Video : Courts: Attorneys contend that sometimes comical tape shows police entrapped the alleged Hollywood madam.

The awkward--and comical--side of high-priced prostitution got a rare airing Monday, as Heidi Fleiss’ lawyers launched their defense by showing the jury an unexpurgated videotape of the vice sting that led to the 28-year-old alleged madam’s arrest.

As the Los Feliz pediatrician’s daughter sat impassively in a conservative tweed suit and black turtleneck, the 1 1/2-hour video spun out scene after scene of strained small talk, bad acting, self-conscious burlesque and fake, ad-libbed Japanese.

At one point, a plump, middle-aged undercover detective, posing as a Tokyo businessman, confesses to admitted rookie prostitute Kim Burch that he wants “to do American thing, special thing.” Puzzled, the dark-haired young woman erupts in giggles and asks: “You mean, like, stand on my head? Or what?”

Fleiss’ lawyers, Anthony Brooklier and Donald Marks, deployed the video Monday in an effort to persuade the jury that Fleiss was entrapped by police. Periodically, they stopped the action to point out to jurors that talk of money and specific sex acts was initiated by undercover officers.

Although prosecutors showed snippets of the video to the jury earlier in Fleiss’ week-old trial, the tape had been heavily excerpted and it was not until Monday that the full play-by-play of the sting became public. Fleiss has pleaded not guilty to charges of pandering and possession of cocaine for sale.

The tape, depicting visits by four confessed prostitutes last June to undercover detectives at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, was shot by a hidden camera in Suite 814. Prosecutors have alleged that Fleiss set up the assignations for Beverly Hills Police Detective Sammy Lee, who testified that he gained her confidence by posing as a Honolulu textile merchant looking for call girls to close a deal with some clients from Japan.

Last week, Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Carter rested the prosecution’s case after eliciting testimony from two of the four women featured in the video.

One, ex-model Samantha Burdette, testified that Fleiss had dispatched her to Lee’s hotel room on June 8, 1993, and again the following night, for a fee of $1,500 per date, which she was to split 60-40 with Fleiss. On the second night, she said, she brought with her two packets of cocaine. The other woman, Burch, told the jury that her assignation with the undercover officers marked her first act of prostitution.

Neither of the other two women involved--Peggy Schinke and Brandi McClain--has been called, although all four have been granted immunity. Sources have said that Schinke, a platinum blonde Canadian with a small child, has disappeared. McClain for several months has been Fleiss’ on-and-off roommate and manager of her Pasadena lingerie boutique.

Monday’s video first shows Burdette visiting Lee on June 8, sipping a drink as the detective counts out “$1,500 in hard-earned money” and then asks, “What’s it get?”

“It gets what you want,” Burdette replies. Lee describes three sex acts and she consents to two. Then, as the thin, sweet-faced model strips to her red thong bikini underwear and arranges herself on the hotel bed, the smoke alarm goes off in the next room, where Lee’s fellow officers are watching the scene via hidden camera.

“Everyone was smoking,” Lee told the jury, as Superior Court Judge Judith L. Champagne laughed out loud. Prosecutor Carter, however, later disagreed, saying outside the courtroom that the alarm had been triggered by a cellular phone.

The scene was one of several unintentionally hilarious moments, as the young women struggled to appear worldly while the police tried to impersonate Tokyo executives without knowing a word of Japanese.