- Born
- Birth nameXaviera DeVries
- Nickname
- The Happy Hooker
- Xaviera Hollander was born on June 15, 1943 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]. She is an actress and writer, known for My Pleasure Is My Business (1975), The Happy Hooker (1975) and Transit (1992).
- Spent the first three years of her life with her parents in a Japanese prison camp in Indonesia.
- At one time after moving to America she worked as a secretary for the Dutch consul and Belgian Ambassador.
- In 1964 she was voted Amsterdam's "Secretary of the Year".
- If my business could be made legal, I and women like me could make a big contribution to what Mayor Lindsay calls "Fun City," and the city and state could derive the money in taxes and licensing fees that I pay off to crooked cops and political figures.
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