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Aubrey Plaza to Star-Produce Heidi Fleiss Biopic as Fleiss Endorses Casting but Won’t Watch

Leah Rachel’s directorial debut follows Fleiss’s final days before her 1993 trial with filming set in Los Angeles this year

Heidi Fleiss visits SiriusXM to promote her Animal Planet special “Heidi Fleiss: Prostitutes to Parrots” on Nov. 16, 2011 in New York City. Aubrey Plaza is set to return to the spotlight with a characteristically offbeat new role portraying Fleiss, the infamous “Hollywood Madam.”
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Overview

  • Aubrey Plaza is attached to portray Heidi Fleiss and to produce the project through her Evil Hag banner
  • The dark comedy marks filmmaker Leah Rachel’s first feature as a director
  • Rachel Sennott, Leah Rachel and Travis Jackson co-wrote the screenplay, focusing on Fleiss’s pre-trial scramble to leverage connections
  • Indie powerhouse Pinky Promise joins Evil Hag in financing the film, with principal photography slated to begin in Los Angeles later this year
  • Heidi Fleiss publicly praised Plaza’s casting but confirmed she will not watch the completed biopic