Sunday, August 10, 2014

Revealation by a Brothel Madame

High-class Paris brothel owner Madame Claude reveals all about A-list clients including JFK (who wanted a Jackie lookalike 'but hot')


Madame Claude

High-class Paris brothel owner Madame Claude reveals all about A-list clients including JFK (who wanted a Jackie lookalike 'but hot')

  • Madame Claude employed hundreds of call girls for stars in 1960s Paris
  • Her clients were said to include Marlon Brando and Muammar Gaddafi
  • Jackie Kennedy's first and second husbands both allegedly 'johns'
  • The eccentric brothel madam claimed to have spent time imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War

France's most famous brothel madam claimed John F Kennedy asked her for a prostitute who looked like his wife Jackie - 'but hot'.
The former President joins a host of famous names said to have visited Madame Claude, the infamous owner of a high-class escort ring who employed hundreds of women in 1960s Paris.
Claude, now 91 and living in France, specialized in procuring call girls - whom she referred to as her 'swans' - for the rich and famous, servicing everyone from the actors Rex Harrison and Marlon Brando to the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Sensational claims: France's most famous brothel madam was allegedly approached by former U.S. President John F Kennedy (left) who wanted a lookalike of his first wife Jackie, the fashion and style icon (right) - 'but hot'
Sensational claims: France's most famous brothel madam was allegedly approached by former U.S. President John F Kennedy (left) who wanted a lookalike of his first wife Jackie, the fashion and style icon (right) - 'but hot'

Sensational claims: France's most famous brothel madam was allegedly approached by former U.S. President John F Kennedy (left) who wanted a lookalike of his first wife Jackie, the fashion and style icon (right) - 'but hot'

Surprising: It comes despite Jackie, nee Bouvier, being one of the most enduring fashion icons of her age
Surprising: It comes despite Jackie, nee Bouvier, being one of the most enduring fashion icons of her age
Surprising: It comes despite Jackie, nee Bouvier, being one of the most enduring fashion icons of her age
Surprising: It comes despite Jackie, nee Bouvier, being one of the most enduring fashion icons of her age
Famous: Pictured during her self-imposed exile in Los Angeles in 1985, Madame Claude was a cult figure
Famous: Pictured during her self-imposed exile in Los Angeles in 1985, Madame Claude was a cult figure

Acclaimed biographer William Stadiem, who penned the famous book on Marilyn Monroe, persuaded Madame Claude to co-author a tell-all book in the 1980s. Although it was never published, he has now has opened up about Claude and her roster of powerful clients.
Despite Jacqueline Kennedy being venerated as one of history's most elegant women, the explosive claims do not just involve her first husband.

Her second husband, the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, was also said to have visited Claude, along with his former lover Maria Callas; 'showing up with depraved requests that made Claude blush.'
'There was John Kennedy requesting a Jackie look-alike "but hot",' Mr Stadiem wrote in Vanity Fair, describing Claude as being 'tiny, blonde, perfectly coiffed and Chanel-clad.'
'There was Marc Chagall giving the girls priceless sketches of their nude selves, Gianni Agnelli taking a post-orgy group to Mass, the Shah and his gifts of jewels.
'There were such disparate bedfellows on the client list as Moshe Dayan and Muammar Qaddafi, Marlon Brando and Rex Harrison.'

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Iconic: Jacqueline and her first husband formed one of the most recognisable couples in U.S. history
Iconic: Jacqueline and her first husband formed one of the most recognisable couples in U.S. history
Second husband: Aristotle Onassis pictured (right) after his marriage to Jackie (left) in August 1968
Second husband: Aristotle Onassis pictured (right) after his marriage to Jackie (left) in August 1968

Mr Stadiem also reveals that the C.I.A. once hired Claude's women to keep up morale during the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, which aimed to end U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
'There are two things that people will always pay for, food and sex. I wasn't any good at cooking'
One of Claude's former loyal clients during the 50s and 60s was London's then-Spectator columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, who pointed out that 'going to a hooker' wasn't frowned upon in the days 'before the pill.'
Claude is said to have chosen mainly tall, stunning, 'failed actresses and models' - many of them Christian Dior couture models -  and favored foreign girls, especially Scandinavians.
The brothel madam is quoted as saying: 'There are two things that people will always pay for, food and sex. I wasn't any good at cooking.'

Arresting: The claims about the lovers of Jacqueline are revealed in the new edition of Vanity Fair
Arresting: The claims about the lovers of Jacqueline are revealed in the new edition of Vanity Fair
Arresting: The claims about the lovers of Jacqueline are revealed in the new edition of Vanity Fair
Arresting: The claims about the lovers of Jacqueline are revealed in the new edition of Vanity Fair

The article investigates the fascinating journey of Madame Claude, born Fernande Grudet in 1923, and how she allegedly turned from a convent-raised resistance agent in the Second World War - who spent a stint at a German Nazi concentration camp, and apparently has the 'camp number tattoo' to prove it - to the head of France's biggest prostitute ring.
Many of the elaborate claims Claude made about her past, however, have been labeled as 'lies' and 'fantasy' by various sources who knew her.
'She reduced the entire world to rich men wanting sex and poor women wanting money'
Ironically given the X-rated nature of Claude's career, the eccentric character - mother to one daughter -  claimed to have 'hated sex,' and was of the opinion that people over 40 'shouldn't have it.' She was, however, a huge fan of plastic surgery, having had everything but her breasts 'done.'
Having made herself a small fortune with her prostitution ring, Claude was forced to flee France for Los Angeles in 1977 when French authorities began hounding her over alleged tax evasion.
Though she continued working as a madam in the U.S., Claude was described as being 'totally alone and adrift' there. She lived in a small apartment in West Hollywood 'filled with wardrobes full of glamorous French clothes no one would ever wear in LA.'

Infamous: Madame Claude after her return to France
Infamous: Madame Claude after her return to France

During her time in Los Angeles, Claude once attempted to enlist legendary actress and author Joan Collins as one of her 'swans.' In Ms Collins' 1997 memoir Second Act, she described Claude's proposition.
'Your husbands don't have to know, and I believe you could make enough money to buy yourself a few little extra baubles,' Claude allegedly said.
Some of the associates Mr Stadiem spoke with were decidedly scathing when describing Claude.
In one account, Françoise Fabian - the actress who played Claude in the 1977 film of her exploits - said she 'was like a slave driver on a plantation in the American South', who pushed the women who worked for her into debt.
Another account, from former-Hollywood based journalist Dany Jucaud was as follows: 'She was vicious... She reduced the entire world to rich men wanting sex and poor women wanting money.'
Eventually, Claude returned to her home country of France, endured a short jail term, and now lives a life shielded from the world.

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