- Born
- Died
- Birth namePearl Adler
- Owned and operated New York's best-known bordello in the years preceding World War II. Adler later had best selling book entitled 'A House Is Not a Home' (Rinehart & Co., 1953), ghost-written by Virginia Faulkner. Adler used fictitious names to chronicle her years as a 'madam' to gangsters, police, and upper-income bracket gentlemen looking for relaxation in the company of attractive young women.- IMDb Mini Biography By: pmintun@mac.com
- Has eight siblings.
- In 1920 she was running a brothel for two-bit gangster Nick Montana in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York. Her clientele included gangsters Arnold "the Brain" Rothstein, Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal.
- Worked in a paper factory and corset factory when she first emigrated to America.
- Biography "Madam: The Biography Of Polly Adler" was written by Debby Applegate.
- Graduated high school at the age of 45.
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