10 Facts About Xaviera Hollander

Xaviera Hollander was born on 15 June 1943 and is a Dutch former call girl, madam and author.

Xaviera Hollander is best known for her best-selling memoir The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

Xaviera Hollander spent the first years of her life in a Japanese-run internment camp.

In 1971, Hollander published a memoir, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

Xaviera Hollander later wrote a number of other books and produced plays in Amsterdam.

For several years in the 1970s, Xaviera Hollander lived in Toronto, where she married Frank Applebaum, a Canadian antique dealer, and was a regular fixture on the downtown scene.

Xaviera Hollander is the only one who managed to deprive me of my self-esteem or identity, temporarily.

Xaviera Hollander used to say that a British man's way of saying 'I love you' is to put his woman down.

Xaviera Hollander claimed to have "turned gay" around 1997, establishing a long-term relationship with a Dutch poet called Dia.

In 1989, Xaviera Hollander made an extended appearance on British discussion programme After Dark, alongside Mary Stott, Malcolm Bennett and Hans Eysenck, among others.