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.
Her autobiography "A House Is Not A Home" initially sold two million copies in 1953.
Among her "respected" clientele of her whorehouse were Walter Winchell, Jock Whitney, Robert Benchley and a rumored Franklin Delano Roosevelt.