Heidi Fleiss Seeks to Return to Prison
Heidi Fleiss is back behind bars--at her request--because the former Hollywood Madam did not care for life in a halfway house.
Fleiss went to a Los Angeles halfway house after her Nov. 19 release from the federal prison in Dublin, Calif., where she served 20 months for conspiracy, tax evasion and laundering call girl profits. Three days later, she asked to return to the prison.
“She felt she would be in a better place,” her publicist Richard Pullman said Tuesday. “She said, ‘I really need to go back.’ She was very unhappy at the halfway house.” Fleiss didn’t give a reason for her unhappiness at the Los Angeles halfway house, Pullman said.
Fleiss has been in the downtown federal Metropolitan Detention Center since Dec. 9 pending approval of her return to the Dublin prison, her publicist said.
“She’s extremely happy,” Pullman said.
Her attorney, Anthony Brooklier, did not return telephone calls seeking comment. Calls to Dominic Gutierrez, Western region spokesman for the Federal Correctional Institution, seeking comment were also not returned.
Fleiss will be released from prison in May. She was arrested June 9, 1993, not long after police arrested four of her employees in a vice sting.
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