Polly retired from the sex trade in the 1940s and moved to Los Angeles where she wrote her memoir, before dying of cancer in 1962.Other alleged actresses in her harem were Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Jeanette MacDonald.She supplied her clients with access to NYC's most sought after socialites and chorus girls from Ziegfeld Follies she once tried to recruit Katharine Hepburn.Polly was beloved by mobsters like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Arnold Rothstein and Frank Costello who paid off her outstanding $50K tax bill in 1939.The book alleges that one of her most famous clients was President FDR, and that she was paid off for life by powerful democrats to keep the secret.Kaufman had a house account at Polly's, and regulars included Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, Desi Arnaz and Joe DiMaggio - who once complained that the satin sheets were too slippery Her brothels became a popular meetinghouseВ for aristocrats, gangsters, politicians and famous literary figures like the Algonquin Round Table writers.ALT:Salacious new book tells the story of Polly Adler, the notorious Jazz Age madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, and writer of the Roaring 20s- including F.D.R, Lucky Luciano, Joe DiMaggio and Desi Arnaz - debauched.

A fascinating new book examines the debauched life of Polly Adler, NYC's most notorious madam during the Jazz Age.Salacious new book tells story of Polly Adler, the notorious Jazz Age madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, and writer of the Roaring 20s - including F.D.R, Lucky Luciano, Joe DiMaggio and Desi Arnaz

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