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Retail Norma Wallace grew up fast in the rough neighborhoods of New Orleans. In 1916, as an ambitious fifteen-year-old, she went to work as a street-walker in the French Quarter, but by 1920 was madam of what became one of the citys most lavish brothels, an establishment frequented by politicians, movie stars, gangsters, and even the notoriously corrupt police force. For decades, Norma flourished, a smart, glamorous, powerful woman whose scandalous life made front-page headlines. Her lovers ran the gamut from a bootlegger who shot her during a fight, to a famed bandleader, to the boy next door, thirty-nine years her junior, who became her fifth husband. She knew all of the Crescent Citys dirty little secrets and used them to protect her own interestsshe never got so much as a traffic ticketuntil the early 1960s, when District Attorney Jim Garrison decided to clean up vice and corruption. After a jail stay, she went legitimate as successfully as she had gone criminal, with a lucrative restaurant business. To the end Norma maintained her independence, and surrendered only to an irrational, obsessive love, which ultimately led to her violent death. In The Last Madam , author Christine

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Author

Chris Wiltz, Christine Wiltz

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306810121

Category

history

Subjects

True Crime, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.48 / 5 (1,180 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14