‘Hollywood Madam’ Ordered to Drug Treatment

Heidi Fleiss, known as the “Hollywood madam” for running a high-priced call girl ring, was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention for using methamphetamine and failing to submit to a mandatory drug test.

Fleiss, 35, admitted in a hearing before U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall in Los Angeles that her drug use and failure to get tested violated her supervised release agreement.

Marshall also ordered Fleiss to submit to counseling and drug treatment programs, and extended the term of her supervised release--or federal parole--to two years.

Fleiss had been in custody since her March 29 arrest.

Authorities arrested her when she showed up at the federal courthouse for a scheduled meeting with her parole officer. A day earlier, she had volunteered to the officer that she had used methamphetamine and prescription drugs in violation of her supervised release.

During home detention, Fleiss can work and attend the counseling and drug treatment sessions.

Fleiss was released from federal prison in 1999, after serving 21 months of a 37-month sentence for money laundering and tax evasion. She spent the next six months in a drug rehabilitation house.