Dear friends and fans,

Spring has started well this year! Blessing Amsterdam with two weeks of glorious sunshine. Since the year's start, I've immersed myself in lots of activities with friends, conducting interviews, and delving into captivating literature. 

Amsterdam's Dagblad Interview

The accompanying newspaper article in the Amsterdams Dagblad was written by a good friend of Xaviera Hollander; Olivier Mouwe.

Happy Hooker kijkt terug op een Happy Life - Amsterdams dagblad

DIA HUIZINGA

In Amsterdam on a summery afternoon 1997 my good American friend, the well known Eddy Woods who had been living in Holland for the last 10 years invited me and some friends, who all loved listening to or reading our own poetry out loud. It all took place in a lovely and cozy café in the heart of Amsterdam called Co Meier. I walked in on my own but had made a date with a few other poets, who were waiting for me there.

It was a warm event and the bar was quite packed with many different birds of paradise. As I walked through the entrance and into the place where I had noticed some of my friends in search of a chair for myself, I noticed a cute butch looking young lesbian getting up from her chair and pointing at the chair to me that I could take over her place as she was going to the bar to start reading some of her own poetry.

In a jiffy I sat down on the wooden chair and to my delight I could feel the warmth under my pussy as I was wearing a summery thin dress and suddenly I realized it had to be her own body heat that caused me to feel suddenly very warm and horny. Well... that evening after we actually introduced each other to one another after she read some of her delightful poems... I may well say that that evening was the beginning of our lifelong friendship and we were lovers for about 5 years. Her name was and still is ANNETJE DIA HUIZINGA. I also kept my freedom to sleep with a few of my regular male lovers. We always had a non committal affaire but basically still love each other as close friends. Even today anno 2025, while I have been married for over 20 years with my dutch husband PHILIP, WE MAKE IT A HABIT TO GET TOGETHER ONCE EVERY FEW WEEKS FOR A DELICIOUS MEAL COOKED BY HIM.

Dia is about ten years younger than I am and is a darn good storyteller as well as poet, but also a fanatic swimmer and gay and lesbian swimmers coach. She has travelled the world for many years accompanying the world wide known singer Melanie (Beautiful People!) as a roady. She also loves making long walks and takes some most interesting photographs of  the nature she so loves. 

LAURA DESIREE

Laura Desiree, It has been a delight  to have met you a few years ago and now  notice how world famous you have become apparently as the ultimate  Sex Goddess of this century. Since I have been  the sex advisor for Penthouse Magazine in  4 different countries for about 24 years and seriously regret the fact that that magazine no longer exists in the  USA  I would like to ask you to propose  the brand new PLAYBOY  MAGAZINE in the USA to hire  the two of us as sex advice columnists  together.  Most likely they  will adore your gorgeous tall and  sexy  near-naked body for a  picture column as well. Spring is in the air and my darling Husband  Philip and I  look  forward  to  having you under our  Happy House  Bed and Breakfast roof  in Amsterdam  soon again.

An exciting website with striptease acts for older people, which never shows fully naked porn actors and actresses, but is still spicy enough to make even the oldest attendees on the edge of their seats look on in amazement.

Striptease wzc beerse - vrt.be

THE HUGE THICK BOOK LONKA PROJECT

The power of life, a photographic tribute to the last holocaust survivors around the world.

This beautiful big impressive book has been compiled by a very good childhood friend of mine, who lived in Spain at the time and the book actually starts with the life and death story of his own father, a well-known artist from Spain who is called GINO HOLLANDER and now the monkey comes out of the sleeve... we have all known each other for more than half a century and Gino's son JIMMY is now one of the most famous photographers who has compiled this impressive ook.

And there on page 91 is a beautiful photo of a certain XAVIERA HOLLANDER, WHO IS ALSO ONE OF THESE THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS.

"XAVIERA "VERA" DE VRIES was born in June 1943 as the daughter of a Dutch Jewish doctor and a mother of French and German descent in Surabaya, the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, which later became Indonesia. She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese-run internment camp. In her twenties, she moved from Amsterdam to Johannesburg and later to New York City. She was secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan, but left and became a call girl and madam under the name Xaviera Hollander, earning about $1,000 a night. She opened her own brothel and quickly became known as the most important lady in New York City. She was arrested in 1971 for prostitution and left the US for Canada. Her book The Happy Hooker was published in 1971. She wrote many more books after that, including Child No More: A Memoir in 2002 and she wrote a monthly advice column in Penthouse magazine titled Call Me Madam. She has been married twice and has had many lovers. She runs a bed and breakfast in her hometown of Amsterdam and has produced and directed many theater productions in Amsterdam."

CAFÉ EUROPA STORIES

Holocaust survivors, photographed by Ethan Pines at the weekly "Café Europa" meeting of Holocaust survivors in the National Council of Jewish Women building, Los Angeles, CA, November 5, 2019.

FANIA ISTOVICH – Born in Mukachevo, present-day Czech Republic. She spent the war years in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. She lost her parents and five siblings in the war. One uncle and one aunt survived. She immigrated to the United States in 1973.

MICHAEL BIEDER – Born in 1923 in Ivanhorod, present-day Ukraine. He lost a younger and an older brother, as well as an older sister. He took a train to Budapest, then to Austria, and after the war returned to Ivanhorod. One sister survived. In 1975, he immigrated to the United States. Michael passed away at the end of May 2021.

ADELA MANHEIMER – Born in 1921 in Poland. Her parents were killed in the war. She was imprisoned in Auschwitz and endured the death march to Prague. No one in her family survived. She immigrated to the USA in 1951.

BARBARA DROTOW – Born June 1, 1933, in Łódź, Poland. Her parents were killed, but an older sister survived. Barbara was smuggled out of the Łódź Ghetto and grew up in an orphanage in Uzbekistan. After the war, she was evacuated back to Łódź. She immigrated to Israel in 1948 and met her husband on a blind date in Israel in 1960.

MIRIAM REITZENSTEIN – Born in Poland. Her parents and four sisters were killed. One brother survived. She fled to Ukraine and spent two years in Siberia, then Uzbekistan. At the war's end, she was transported back to Poland with other children. She then traveled to Haifa but was sent to Cyprus before eventually continuing to Israel. She immigrated to the United States in 1955.

PAULA GOLDSTEIN – Born in Kalisz, Poland, on January 9, 1922. Her parents, twin sisters, and two brothers were killed in the war. She spent the war years in Częstochowa, Poland. She and two other brothers survived. After liberation, she went to France, then to Israel in 1948, and later immigrated to the United States. When asked if she wanted to add a note, she said, "Keep Israel strong!"

REGINA LEWIN – Born in Cenzin, Poland. She was imprisoned in a ghetto, then forced to work in a labor factory in the mountains of southern Germany for three years. At the war's end, she was evacuated by the Red Cross back to Poland. Only some distant cousins survived. She moved to Brussels, Belgium, where she obtained legal identification, then relocated to Melbourne, Australia, before immigrating to the United States.

MARIA ROSS – Born on November 7, 1930, in Chișinău, Moldova (then part of Romania). During the war, she fled to a small village in Russia, then to Siberia, and later to Turkmenistan. Her parents and one aunt survived. After the war, she returned to Romania and immigrated to the United States in 1973.

KATHY SCHENK – Born in Poland. She spent the war years moving between multiple concentration camps in Germany. After liberation, she went to Austria. No one in her family survived. She immigrated to Michigan in 1999.

ERNEST LORANT – Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary. He spent the war years in the Auschwitz concentration camp. None of his family survived. After the war, he immigrated to Israel and later moved to the United States in 1947.

TOBY TAMBOR – Believes she was born in 1932 in Belarus. During the war, she lived in a ghetto and later fled to the forests. After liberation, she traveled to Belarus and Russia, was in a displaced persons camp in Austria, and later moved to Israel. Her mother survived the war. She immigrated to New York in 1967.

INGRID "INGE" BOOS – Born September 10, 1934, in Frankfurt, Germany. Most of her family perished in Minsk. She was interned in the Theresienstadt camp with her mother. Both were liberated there by Russian soldiers. After the war, they returned to Frankfurt and later immigrated to the United States in 1950.

ARTHUR AND ROCHELLE ZICHERMAN – Both Holocaust survivors. Arthur was born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia. One sister and one brother survived the war, but three brothers and his parents were killed. He lived in a ghetto during the war. His wife, Rochelle, was also born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia. Of her 11 siblings, only one brother and two sisters survived the war. She was imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Arthur and Rochelle married in 1970 in Los Angeles.

LINDA MAGAZINE

XAVIERA HOLLANDER (81) IS B&B OWNER AND FORMER GRANDE DAME OF THE SEX INDUSTRY

RECENTLY I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO ARRANGE IT ALL FOR ME: EUTHANASIA, CREMATION, EVERYTHING. The papers have been signed. It will be a farewell with a few close friends and then, the next day or so, a funeral service, also here in the house. No, not with me there! Please, that doesn't look good, does it? I have already been cremated by then and my urn can be placed on a shelf in the living room, or else outside, next to my mother's tombstone. That is a glass plate, which I picked up at Zorgvliet, when her grave was going to be cleared. You don't think I'm going to pay a thousand euros a year for a place I can never go to again, do you?

I have osteoporosis. It's been going fast in recent years, I've become a lot shorter. There is a whole manual for how the pain in my neck and knees can be massaged away. I have one of those stand-up chairs and a walker, but if I flicker over, I'm done with it immediately. And I don't go to a rehabilitation center, where they come to wipe my ass every day. Then I prefer to keep control myself. For example, one of my wishes is that the twenty-minute documentary they made about my life will be shown during that farewell meeting. And that my LP Happily Hooked, together with the books I have written, will be sold. I don't have any use for that money anymore - but my husband Philip does. He is ten years younger and has to continue in this house for a while.

There will be snacks and drinks, of course, and I have a lot of friends in the music and theater world, so I do think they will sing for me. Preferably something from Shaffy or Edith Piaf. Aznavour is also allowed. If I choose a summer day, I can easily accommodate forty people, with the garden included. Maybe I should choose my next birthday as the date of death, June 15, which is usually a beautiful day. For my 81st I got a burlesque striptease show as a gift. Actually, it would be appropriate to get such an act during that last party as well. There will be a lot of prostitutes anyway. Sex and prostitution are back in fashion. I think that, in these times of war and misery, is a nice thought. In any case, it has given me a rich life or, let me put it this way: kept the death wish that I always had as a Japanese camp child at a distance. I hope people will remember me as a fun loving, sex loving girl.

If I may give one message myself, it would be the words of the Russian writer Sergei Yesenin, who died far too young: in this world you can search for everything, except love and death. They find you when the time comes.'

CHANSONS? TOUJOURS!

My friend Micheline Van Hautem together with Trio Guus Westdorp made a new live Album with lyrical and passionate French Chansons. 

Micheline delivers a vibrant blend of timeless classics  by Aznavour, Gainsbourg, Trenet, Montand, along with a selection of original compositions, reminiscent of the golden era of Parisian cabarets. Her enchanting voice and magnetic presence breathe life into this live, one-take recording from Lux Theater — a must-have for French chanson lovers.

🎧 Discover and stream Chansons? Toujours! on Spotify

I first met Micheline in 2004 when she was performing her 5-star Jacques Brel show in St.George’s Church in Edinburgh. I was there to scout musical acts for my Amsterdam theater productions and I fell in love with her voice, humor and presence on stage. She came to Amsterdam to perform sold out shows and we have kept in touch since then, for over 20 years. I hope you enjoy her singing and her personal interpretations of French classics as much as I do.

🎶 Featured Single: "Mon Manège à Moi"
Watch the video on YouTube, and catch a glimpse of the Nice Carnaval along the way:

MARCH 8 – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

God is a Mother
L'ORIGINE DU MONDE

The divine being,
a cosmic essence, drifting like stardust over old ideas—
the idea that within this body, masculine and feminine exist as equals,
as one.

And that beauty awakens something,
a memory of what has always been,
causing everything to tremble.

For where it breaks—forced to choose, this or that—
the potential to become one's authentic self shatters.

—Leendert Vooijce

HONORING THE PRIMAL MOTHER

We descend from a long lineage of women who navigated life with ingenuity and courage. Every day, we are inspired by the women around us—and the femininity within our hearts.

With admiration, we look to Malika, to Dinah, who tirelessly fights for trans rights and to Leendert Vooijce, who asks the child’s question:
"Mom, would you still love me if I were a girl?"

🎭 Book your tickets for >> WOULD YOU LOVE ME? <<
Leendert Vooijce’s first solo performance, June 11–19, Oosterkerk, Amsterdam.

Email from a Fan

Not long ago, I already sent you a message with my compliments. In the meantime, I have reread the interview on your website (Nieuwe Revue, 2016), as well as the recent interview with Linda. Beautiful, though of course, not just cheerful. The reality, inevitable, and how one must face it. The black-and-white photo accompanying the Linda interview was also striking—very fitting. Plenty to reflect on, as I am now 65 myself, and death crosses my path more frequently than before.

Reading the interviews also brought back memories—of your books, which I read quite some time ago. They stood proudly on the bookshelf of my, for that time, modern-minded parents, even when guests came over. It was a way of breaking through shame and taboos.

At the time, I was in my mid-teen years, going through puberty, and your books helped me navigate my own fantasies—fantasies that felt forbidden, unacceptable. There was no Internet yet, no way to seek out like-minded individuals online.

So I imagined a lot by myself. I never admitted to it, had regular girlfriends—nothing out of the ordinary on the surface. But in my mind, I dreamed of Xaviera (not your last name, just Xaviera), as a dominant woman I visited, shy and almost timid. In my imagination, I saw your smile, your invitation. You understood what I wanted, what no one else knew, and you told me it was okay.

You wore regular clothing, no leather. Everything seemed normal—even my desire to be dominated and punished. What a wonderful feeling it was, the idea that it was allowed, that it was possible. A fantasy from back then… one that still resurfaces from time to time.

Best regards,
Paul W

The Happy Hooker since 1971

A few years ago, my gallery in The Hague hosted the presentation of the anniversary edition of The Happy Hooker. Next year, this groundbreaking book about the adventures of Xaviera Hollander will celebrate its 55th anniversary—yet it remains a true page-turner!

—Victor Laurentius

Lea Vivot, a world  famous sculptress,  originally from  Chechoslovaky

Hi dear Xaviera and lifelong friend,
As you may know, my husband, a highly respected and well-known Canadian veterinarian, committed suicide, while sending me and our son Erik to get a cup of soup from the house. We owned some terrific ace horses  but did not have any idea  that he would use the same needle he gave to the horses to put them to sleep when they reached the end of their lives. This is apparently how he wanted to die, but he always talked about living as a man and dying as a man... no tubes hanging from his body!!!

We were shocked to see that he was already dead, but it was his life, his choice... He had lymphoma and realized he had no chance of surviving this, but we, his family, were in shock.

Here are some beautiful photos taken in our gorgeous garden in Canada. Lots of big red flowering trees and of course some of my favorite images. As you probably recall, when I was born in Czechoslovakia, I was found shortly afterwards on a wooden bench with hardly any clothes attached to my small body.

Later in my life, I married this world-famous wealthy Canadian vet at a young age and moved into his house, which you can see in the attached photo with all those beautiful red trees and many images I took. At a much younger age I had started making animal sculptures, as you can see in another beautiful photo of mine. Miraculously, with the wonderful help of my son, I became world famous within a few years. I bought myself a nice apartment in sunny Acapulco and we traveled around the world together.

The Father

​I recently watched the poignant film "The Father," featuring Anthony Hopkins as the protagonist, Anthony, who grapples with Alzheimer's disease. The narrative delves deeply into his deteriorating mental state, culminating in his isolation within a care facility specializing in Alzheimer's patients. This portrayal underscores the profound challenges associated with such cognitive decline. It prompts contemplation on the necessity of legalizing euthanasia to offer individuals an alternative to enduring the severe progression of this illness.

Veronica Vera and Annie Sprinkle still looking gorgeous and slender - Veronica, famous for her school for boys who wanna be girls and Annie Sprinkle, who still  loves to embrace trees with her lover and has the most magnificent boobies... And has been a yearlong friend of me, Xaviera ever since I launched the Happy Hooker in New York in 1971.

Some smiles for today...

• The biggest joke on mankind is that computers have begun asking humans to prove they aren't a robot.

• It's weird being the same age as old people.

• Last night the internet stopped working, so I spent a few hours with my family. They seem like good people.

• If Adam and Eve were Cajuns they would have eaten the snake instead of the apple and saved us all a lot of trouble.

• Weight loss goal: To be able to clip my toenails and breathe at the same time.

• My idea of a Super Bowl is a toilet that cleans itself.

These are from a book called "Disorder in the Court" and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters, who had the torment of staying straight-faced, while the exchanges were taking place.

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid.

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.

Britain's Happy Hookers

 The Not So Subtle Signs Of Getting Older. Cathy Ladman