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\n\tLas Vegas madam Jami Rodman, aka Haley Heston.<\/span><\/p>\n

\tBy Robin Leach Las Vegas Sun<\/p>\n

\tLas Vegas Madam
\n\tThe employees of Las Vegas madam Jami Rodman, aka Haley Heston, included Olympian Suzy Favor-Hamilton, pictured here second from left at Stiletto Dash in December 2012 at Palazzo.
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\tHaley Heston\u2019s escort agency in Las Vegas with its $1,500-a-night gorgeous call girls erupted into a worldwide headline scandal when three-time Olympian Suzy-Favor Hamilton revealed that she was one of the city\u2019s most-sought-after escorts leading a double life as Kelly Lundy \u2014 wife, mother and American sweetheart, and charging as much as $1,000 an hour for sexual favors.<\/p>\n

\tNow Haley has revealed her real-life name of Jami Rodman, a small-town girl from a Christian family in Oregon, and lifted the curtain on how her high-class agency ruled the world\u2019s oldest profession for a new book, \u201cThe Las Vegas Madam: The Escorts, The Clients, The Truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe candid narration of the underground Las Vegas world of sex and hookers is her story of the quest for sexual adventures in Sin City. Some of the individual rates were as high as five figures for 24-hour dates.<\/p>\n

\tJami\u2019s shockingly honest and unforgettable memoir of her 10-year run building one of the most elite escort agencies in the nation will be published in December and is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Her story exploded in December 2012 and again in January 2013 when ex-Olympian Suzy was revealed, and Jami, then 35, was named by the Smoking Gun as the agency chief.<\/p>\n

\tJami was never arrested in connection with the operation of the escort agency. She was briefly jailed for failing to appear in court on a speeding citation in August 2012.<\/p>\n

\tSuzy\u2019s memoir, \u201cFast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness,\u201d is a wrenching recollection of the demons that drove the track and field Olympic star to work as a $600-an-hour Las Vegas prostitute and was published last week. The women remain good friends, and Suzy encouraged Jami to write her life story.<\/p>\n

\tOn a recent return visit to Las Vegas where she watched \u201cSexxy\u201d at Westgate Las Vegas, Jami, 37, met up with me for this brain-spinning, two-part interview that details her rise from small-town girl to high-priced call girl to madam.<\/p>\n

\tIt\u2019s a cocktail of erotic pleasures, big money and hot women rubbing shoulders with wealthy men between the sheets. Looking at Jami, she\u2019s the last woman you\u2019d ever think was a queenpin of the sex business. She dressed demurely, wearing a modest, over-the-knee skirt, and is quietly pretty and definitely not a voluptuous bombshell.<\/p>\n

\tFirst of all, why did you get into the business?<\/p>\n

\tIt\u2019s the infamous subject. In Las Vegas, everything seems a little unconventional based on our former lives. Most of us there are transplants. To my friends and I, escorting was more logical, and often safer, than the dating scene. We were young and living in a city where one-night stands were the norm following a long night of clubbing.<\/p>\n

\tBeautiful people selling sex was seemingly everywhere \u2014 on billboards, in magazines, ads for nightclubs and restaurants \u2014 and the more provocative one was, the better she did financially. So when the tipping point presented itself \u2014 I was cocktail waitressing and dancing at a strip club, plus flat broke with bills to pay \u2014 I took it.<\/p>\n

\tIt just feels normal. The sex industry in Las Vegas is more open than it is anywhere else. It\u2019s the backbone of the city. Driving down the street, going to a nightclub, even the billboards for sushi restaurants show mostly naked women. It\u2019s the culture of the city.<\/p>\n

\tExcept for one thing: Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas. It\u2019s OK in Pahrump, Nye County, but not here in Clark County.<\/p>\n

\tWell, prostitution is not legal from a textbook standpoint, but we all know that it\u2019s the unspoken draw and lure for a lot of people. I mean what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Do something you\u2019ve never done before. I have not lived here for a couple of years, but every time I come back, I see new taglines that seem to hint that it\u2019s a sexual playground and do everything you want to do, get it out of your system, go home and be a new person for it.<\/p>\n

\tIt is illegal. I can\u2019t really talk about all the legal issues of what I was doing until December when the book is published. So as far as the escort agency and keeping it more as a modeling agency, I mean we all know that the escort agencies exist. You see the \u201c1-800 girls direct to you\u201d billboard signs, and they\u2019re still there; they\u2019re not pulled off the Strip.<\/p>\n

\tYou see the card slappers down on the Strip in front of the hotels and everywhere else. There are modeling agencies. What we did was provide companionship. We did not provide prostitution services. When a guy hires a woman for companionship or a date, it\u2019s because he wants to feel good about himself.<\/p>\n

\tGo out for a drink, sit across from a pretty woman and have a conversation that doesn\u2019t involve a to-do list or the kids need schoolbooks or college tuition needs to be paid or I need a new car, so, ching, ching, can I be the ATM. He just wants to have a carefree evening and know that at the end of the night he\u2019s feeling better about who he was.<\/p>\n

\tYou have a delightful way of putting it. We can now mention that the book is out in December, yes?<\/p>\n

\tIt is, yes. It will be released Dec. 11. It\u2019s available for preorder now at Amazon.com and on Kindle. It\u2019s for any woman who wants to know what her husband really wants in the bedroom. Any man who wants to know what an escort is really thinking when they\u2019re together.<\/p>\n

\tYou\u2019re described as the infamous Las Vegas Madam. Are you out of the business, or are you still a madam?<\/p>\n

\tI\u2019m not in the business. I left after all of the drama, but I still maintain friendships with many of the girls. I didn\u2019t madam them out, per se. I started an agency at the suggestion of a client I was dating at the time. It seemed like a good idea. All of us in Las Vegas felt the economic downturn pretty hard.<\/p>\n

\tI had a lot of friends from my previous escort days, and they were all looking for a way to increase business. I could use the added income while my other business got off the ground. Over the course of a weekend, I started building a website, and, a few months later, there we were.<\/p>\n

\tHow many girls did you have in your escort agency?<\/p>\n

\tOver the course of the three years, I would guess anywhere from 200 to 300 came through our agency. A lot of them were Playboy models, Maxim models, career women. Most of them did have a life on the other side, and this was more of their secret hobby, just as Suzy did. At any given time, we had maybe 60 working with us. We had a front-end website, then more of a members-only area where women had to maintain an even higher discretion,<\/p>\n

\tIt was the Haley Heston Private Collection. That was my name during my run as an escort. I never expected to become as involved with all the women. When they had problems at home, with their families and children, I was there to listen and help. I was their sounding board. Then, when I started seeing a different side to prostitution \u2014 specifically the pimps and how they handle their business \u2014 it was even more difficult to watch how it affected my friends.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe employees of Las Vegas madam Jami Rodman, aka Haley Heston, included Olympian Suzy Favor-Hamilton, pictured here.<\/p>\n

\tSo the book goes into two parts. The first part is a memoir of when I started escorting in Las Vegas. How I climbed from basically a small-town girl to waitressing at the Rio, then a strip club, then I started dancing, moved into escorting, then became a little bit more of a companion, traveled with clients. It\u2019s that growth process all of us will go through in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\tThe experiences of transforming into a Las Vegas person where, as you know, the nightclubs never end, there\u2019s no delineation between night and day as we lose our real identity pretty quickly if we don\u2019t have a grounding element like a family or a job or a \u201creal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tWhen you were growing up, did you know that there were such things as escort agencies, or was it all new to you when you came to Las Vegas?<\/p>\n

\tActually, I had looked into escort agencies. I stumbled across high-end escort agency websites when I was younger. I stumbled across Playboy magazines when I was very young with my friend. We would visit her dad\u2019s shed during school time and skip classes to peruse these beautiful magazines of women.<\/p>\n

\tThe same thing with the online agencies. It\u2019s pictures of gorgeous women, and it doesn\u2019t seem like a bad career move. You make a lot of money to go on dates, go to expensive restaurants and wear fancy clothes. I grew up in a very rigid Christian home, so my real life was quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

\tRebel child?<\/p>\n

\tYes. My family had a lot of standards. No pants, no music, no TV, no makeup, all of those things that to a young girl seem fun. I wanted to wear makeup and cut my hair. I didn\u2019t know that Las Vegas existed at the time. My family didn\u2019t visit Las Vegas. I got involved with cultural anthropology and sociology.<\/p>\n

\tI got my degree very young, and I worked in the social services department in Oregon \u2014 mental health, rehab, family services. I just went to Las Vegas on vacation, and like many of us we just stay. That\u2019s the classic Las Vegas story, and the rest was history.<\/p>\n

\tGirls doing what your girls did are known by many names: escort, prostitute, call girl, courtesan, sugar baby, hooker. What\u2019s the distinction?<\/p>\n

\tI apply these labels loosely. Although they come with different rates and expectations, a hooker might spread her legs for a quickie in the back seat of a car. An escort puts in more time, invests in lingerie to take it off with notes of a song. Maybe a courtesan does all the above but adds conversation over a glass of wine to mimic the act of a long-lost girlfriend.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, at the end of the day, when it\u2019s all said and done, we all played all roles. We saw the same guys. We went through similar internal struggles. Our buyers \u2014 johns, clients, customers, tricks and sugar daddies \u2014 were equally alike. Most importantly, we all faced deep life changes because of the choices we made to identify ourselves with those labels.<\/p>\n

\tWhere did you find the Olympian Suzy Favor-Hamilton?<\/p>\n

\tSuzy found us. She and her husband called us for a threesome; I believe it was their anniversary. It wasn\u2019t uncommon to get threesome requests like that. They really liked it, it was their first threesome, and it wasn\u2019t a full day after that she fell in love with it herself and she called back for a male escort, saw him for a week, then pretty quickly she wanted to try out escorting herself.<\/p>\n

\tSo he hired a girl, then she hired a guy, then she became an escort?<\/p>\n

\tThat is correct. She\u2019s not in the business anymore. She and her husband are still together. She talks about it quite openly.<\/p>\n

\tSo Haley Heston went through 200 to 300 escorts. What was the pricing structure? Were you booked for two hours or the entire evening?<\/p>\n

\tWe began in 2009 to 2010-ish. It all ended in 2012. We were a boutique agency, and we weren\u2019t a very large call agency. We paid a lot of attention to dating, per se. Clients were able to find out the details, read an introduction about a girl before he ever decided to pursue a date with her. A lot of them were extended-hour dates, multiple hours.<\/p>\n

\tWe did a lot of parties where guys would be in town for a business event, and he\u2019d want five girls to hang out with him at a nightclub. He would call five girls and hang out at a nightclub. The pricing structure really depended on each model herself.<\/p>\n

\tWe were more of a screening firm as opposed to an agency who treated their models like employees. They were not employees. They were independent contractors. Everyone set their own goals and rates, and rates were $500 to $600 an hour up to $1,000.<\/p>\n

\tAnd that price did not include any sexual shenanigans?<\/p>\n

\tCorrect. That was the date. Anything that happens between two adults while they were on a date was between them. We didn\u2019t get shut down, actually. I chose to terminate my end of the company because there is so much media attention on me and the agency and Suzy, but we didn\u2019t get shut down. I wound it down.<\/p>\n

\tAnd I\u2019m assuming that the girls who you had on your books moved to other agencies?<\/p>\n

\tA lot of them went independent. I sat down with every single model that we had worked with, and I helped her transition into doing everything on her own. If they wanted to work with an agency, and some of them did because they didn\u2019t want the hassle of checking and emails \u2014 all the back-end logistics of forming a company \u2014 I referred them to agencies that would be good to work for. Some are great to work for, some are not so good to work for.<\/p>\n

\tAre there escort agencies similar to what you were still operating in Las Vegas today?<\/p>\n

\tThere\u2019s a small handful because it\u2019s difficult to break into the industry in Las Vegas because of the bad reputation a lot of agencies have. They advertise $250 an hour, a girl shows up, and guys who call those agencies assume that everything happens for $250. They get disappointed when the girl comes in and starts negotiating different rates for certain \u2026<\/p>\n

\tThose types of agencies charge a price per act, and men who typically go through them don\u2019t understand that pricing structure, and they\u2019re disappointed. The reputation of agencies in Las Vegas is of such a nature, to break into the industry takes a lot of time and dedication.<\/p>\n

\tYou spill secrets in your book, so are clients who may still be in Las Vegas likely to shake in their boots?<\/p>\n

\tAbsolutely not. It\u2019s not a tell-all. I don\u2019t name anyone in the book. The book is a memoir. When it gets into talking about those types of secrets, it\u2019s more from a sociological perspective. I don\u2019t name anyone, I don\u2019t shame anyone; that wasn\u2019t my intent with the book.<\/p>\n

\tDid Suzy ever admit to a price that she may have negotiated for consenting behavior?<\/p>\n

\tI do know that escorting was not a form of business for her. I think that\u2019s where we get into some delineation between types of prostitutes vs. escorts vs. companions. Especially in Las Vegas because we all know that there are straight prostitutes, there are streetwalkers, there are women who prefer to just negotiate a price per act, then there are women who prefer to go out on a date for the enjoyment of the date, and that\u2019s where Suzy comes in.<\/p>\n

\tShe truly did look at prostitution as a way of fulfilling her interest and hobbies, and for her it was fun. So as far as negotiating a price for services, I don\u2019t think that was her intent. For her, it was more, \u201cWow, this is great. I love having sex, and if I can get paid for it, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tWhat did it cost to book Suzy for an evening without the additional fun fee?<\/p>\n

\tUp to $5,000 for an evening date. Five hours?<\/p>\n

\tCan you tell me what the most expensive fee would be for one of the girls who worked for you, or would it have been Suzy?<\/p>\n

\tNo, there were other women who perhaps maybe wanted to see someone once a week or something. I think the most expensive dollar mark was $1,500 for an hour, so five hours \u2014 $7,500.<\/p>\n

\tExpensive business. Plus the cost of dinner and drinks for the two?<\/p>\n

\tBut, hey, how much does it cost to get a divorce, which is what I heard many times: \u201cI would rather hire an escort for an evening than go and have an affair, get caught, my wife sue me for divorce, then I end up spending $5 million on her because I felt promiscuous that night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSo $1,500 for an hour would be the going rate, then on top of that would be whatever the consenting adult negotiation would be, correct?<\/p>\n

\tThat\u2019s where we get into the delineation between boutique agencies who are honest vs. large call agencies who negotiate prices for extended behaviors. The agency\/screening firm worked more like a dating website, per se, where clients could view different women and decide who he would like to spend his time. What we did as a firm was do the screening for them, then the negotiation of, \u201cOK, let\u2019s meet on this day or night,\u201d would happen between the guy and the woman.<\/p>\n

\tIt\u2019s an age-old question, but why do men have affairs in terms of what your agency provided?<\/p>\n

\tI think the reason men and women have affairs is because they no longer feel special with their partner. Based on what I heard many times with clients, they sought escorts instead of having affairs because it was safer. They believed that it would save their marriage.<\/p>\n

\tWhen men hire someone for companionship, for them it\u2019s easy to flip that emotional switch on and off. He looks at it like a business transaction: \u201cOK, I just paid for the service this time, and because of that, I don\u2019t have to get emotionally involved.\u201d For him, he hires companions because it saves his marriage. It\u2019s not as bad as cheating.<\/p>\n

\tThere was an interesting observation in your book that escorts provide companionship for clients, but in the reverse they do not have their own companions. They have loneliness.<\/p>\n

\tI didn\u2019t realize this while I was doing it. It took me time to figure this out. Many years of letting it stew and therapy in all of this, but escorting is one of the loneliest jobs ever. I still talk to women who call me as a mentor, and, regardless of how successful she is as an escort, they have extreme loneliness because they don\u2019t feel, like me as well, I didn\u2019t feel like anyone really understood.<\/p>\n

\tIn Las Vegas, a lot of escorts, including me, turned into alcoholics, or they used drugs constantly. They\u2019re always socializing and partying because of a deep feeling of loneliness. There\u2019s just not a close friend we have, and it pushes us away from our friends and family back home.<\/p>\n

\tWe do form a few friendships with women in the industry, but they\u2019re closed and guarded friendships because we don\u2019t know who we can trust. We get burned a lot by other escorts when they try to steal clients, or they want to cause problems with us, or they tell our boyfriends what we\u2019re doing. There\u2019s camaraderie, but there\u2019s still a major closed-off element to it.<\/p>\n

\tWe have to protect ourselves from clients because many of them fall in love with us, or they fall in love with the concept we represent to them, that we accept them, we do things that maybe their wives don\u2019t do, so we have to close ourselves off. It creates more of an isolation.<\/p>\n

\tWere you surprised at your male clients? Were there big names involved?<\/p>\n

\tBecause of the nature of Las Vegas, everyone seems to come there, and in time we had a reputation of being honest and reliable. Part of that is because I had been in the industry myself for a number of years, and I know that remaining anonymous is very important to guys in this industry, and we provided that.<\/p>\n

\tI didn\u2019t pry into their personal lives, I didn\u2019t require them to hand over their driver\u2019s license, I didn\u2019t ask who they were in their private lives. There\u2019s a whole other world to the sex industry, and when we\u2019re in it, we create a fake name, fake phone number, fake email address, and we build this persona that is fake. I wouldn\u2019t know if they were Hollywood showbiz stars or Washington, D.C., politicians or Wall Street moguls because I didn\u2019t ask them.<\/p>\n

\tAre you happy you\u2019re out of the business?<\/p>\n

\tI am. I\u2019ve moved on, and I have a lot of interesting things going on. I had a great time when I was in Las Vegas and a lot of fun memories. Now I have a lot more interesting things moving forward into the future.<\/p>\n

\tWas writing the book a catharsis?<\/p>\n

\tYeah, it was. I learned a lot about myself and other people, and I was able to take away an appreciation for the time and opportunity that I had there. It\u2019s all out on the table now, my whole life, history, feelings and thoughts. Some are embarrassing and painful, but they\u2019re the truth. During my time as an escort and madam, I did things normal people do. I went to school. I worked. I started a company.<\/p>\n

\tI didn\u2019t give up my whole life to become an escort and madam. To me, being an escort was a chance to explore, an accessory to my life. It was fun times remembered with a smile. Being an escort is a myriad of emotions, a constant shift of excitement, enjoyment, disgust, boredom and loneliness. Escorts are lonely. We socialize constantly.<\/p>\n

\tHaley Heston today is long gone, but how do you sum it all up?<\/p>\n

\tOh, such a good question. The whole 10 years, my decade in Las Vegas, I would say it was a flash in the pan. I came out of it, but it happened so fast. I\u2019m very happy, very content and comfortable in my own skin today. I do not regret who I am. I\u2019ve had the opportunity to empower women, and men, and change their lives in ways I never could have without being an escort and madam.<\/p>\n

\tI met a lot of amazing and fascinating people. I traveled to places I never would have otherwise. I was able to explore my sexual curiosities in a positive and safe manner. I\u2019ve saved marriages, freed girls from pimps and traveled around the world doing humanitarian work. I don\u2019t see any reason to be ashamed of that.<\/p>\n

\tOne day you\u2019ll get married and have children and be just like the normal wife of the men who once called you?<\/p>\n

\tI\u2019m not so sure if I\u2019d so go far as to say that, but, if I do, then I\u2019ll know how to make my husband happy, right?<\/p>\n

\t\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n

\tOn Thursday in Part 2, more from Jami Rodman and the unsettling story of how Olympian Suzy Favor-Hamilton lived the life of an expensive call girl here in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\tRobin Leach of \u201cLifestyles of the Rich & Famous\u201d fame has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past 15 years giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world\u2019s premier platinum playground.<\/p>\n

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