Xaviera Hollander

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Xaviera Hollander (born 15 June, 1943) is a former call girl and madam. She was born Vera de Vries in Soerabaja, Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies) to a Jewish father and Christian mother.

She is best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0-06-001416-4). The book was notable for its frankness at the time and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex. It was made into a film starring Lynn Redgrave. Hollander has since written a number of other books and produced plays in Amsterdam. Her latest book Child No More is the heartfelt story of losing her own mother. For many years, she wrote an advice column for Penthouse magazine called Call Me Madam. For several years in the 1970s, Hollander lived in Toronto, where she married a Canadian antique dealer and was a regular fixture in the downtown core [1] [2].

She also appeared on an album of celebrity cover versions of songs by The Beatles on which she sang "Michelle".

For the last five years, she has been operating Xaviera's Happy House, a bed and breakfast within her Amsterdam home. Lately she is also renting her renovated villa, Caprice, in Marbella, Spain.

In January 2007, she married long-time boyfriend Philip de Haan in Amsterdam.

Partial Bibliography

• The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. 1971. ISBN 0-06-001416-4

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