Likewise, I’m told, law professor and writer Susan Estritch was said to be disturbed by the preponderance of white males on the podium. My sources say the diva was quite upset about what she perceived as the absence of women, blacks and Hispanics from the various discussion panels. IF Tina Brown wanted to win friends and influence people with her Talk magazine’s media confab in Santa Barbara last week, she apparently failed miserably with Barbra Streisand.

(She was one of the first madams to insist on her clients taking their gear off before business was discussed, a policy that made things very awkward for undercover cops.) Xaviera has put on a bit of weight since last we saw her but still has that striking face that launched a thousand strips. The bash drew quite a crowd of publishing figures, none of whom wanted to be named. (The original “Happy Hooker” was the world’s biggest-selling paperback at the time it was issued.) Hollander has retained a certain kind of following by penning a very specific sex-advice column for Penthouse magazine.Īnyway, her Manhattan return was celebrated at a party given her by Lisa Lipkin, author of “Bringing the Story Home” (Norton). Several editors are said to be interested in the new book.

But the temptation to spice it up with more recollections of life in the sex trade may be too great. It’s the story of her early days and the horrors of being born in the Japanese prison camp, where her parents were incarcerated during World War II. So far, though, Hollander is insisting that her new book won’t be about sex and the city at all. If she decides to name names, there will be cardiac arrests all over the Upper East Side. Xaviera’s former clients thought she and her little black book were at a safe distance off-shore after she was banned from the United States decades ago for promoting prostitution.īut, I now learn, lawyer Paul Sherman got that ban lifted three years ago, and the former madam to the carriage trade can now come and go as she pleases. SOME now-elderly johns are going to be disturbed to learn that “Happy Hooker” Xaviera Hollander is back in our midst and touting a new autobiography.

The Happy Hooker by Xaviera Hollander