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Canal Street Brothel

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"I was booked in six months in advance. Girls were just knocking the door to get in," said Jeanette Maier, the madam. Maier is in her late 40's.

But that was hardly the only surprise inside the Canal Street Brothel. Maier's mother Tommie Taylor, who is in her early 60's, ran the office. They brought in prostitutes from around the country, then hired them out at $300 an hour.

And the brothel had one more twist that surprised even a confirmed party town like New Orleans. Not only did Jeanette and her mother run the place, but one of the prostitutes was Jeanette's own daughter.

"I didn't really want to grow up to be like her because I knew what it entailed," said the daughter, Monica Montemayor, who is in her late 20's. "But it just happened that way, you know? It — it just happened."

In New Orleans, Three Generations of Women Ran a Booming Brothel

Richard Evans Lee
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our taxpayer money was wasted in this event. I dont agree with their profession, but they were making a living without stealing or drug activities.

Posted by: jesse | June 16, 2004 10:54 PM

If prostitution was legal, the working girls would get excellent medical care, be protected, and the business could be taxed. These women were making a living....and were being frequented by the top echelon of New Orleans. Notice who gets the law down on them...the girls, not the clients. Seems like they get screwed twice this way. "Let him who is without sin among you, cast the first stone".

Posted by: Dee | June 17, 2004 01:50 AM

While I agree that it was hypocritical of the government to prosecute the women of the brothel and not their male clients, I must say that I COMMEND the FBI cracking down on this matter of prostitution. I think it is sad, frankly, that most people today still think that prostitution is a victimless crime. I think that the news story alone on these women and this brothel tells you that the biggest victims of this crime are the women themselves. Having been abused and made to feel like nothing they figured they may as well make money of their abuse. I paraphrase but it is indeed what they said, acknowledging the total feeling of victimization which cannot be changed no matter how you choose to dress it up. The victims are also the many families, women and children whose husband/father's need for illicit sex ruins the lives of these people. It might not seem like a big deal, but families are the fabric of our society. Like hardcore pornography the continued exlpoitation of women colors the way society sees and treats women. It affects the way men treat women and the way women treat other women. There is a lack of respect for women in society and prostitution has not small part in it. The legality or illegality of it is moot in that senese, but I do not see how making it legal would make it better. IE, Blacks are still discriminated against and exploited in this society, was it better then when this was a part of our constitution and laws. Just because something is made legal does not cure all of its ills or make it right, by any means.

Posted by: Cecilia | November 8, 2004 02:25 PM

No one out there has a clue of what they're talking about! I was engaged to monica, she lived in my house, i helped her get her daughter back, and helped put her through school to be an MA. I held her night after night, through night terrors, and seizures, and dreams that would wake me with her making stabbing motions at me as if fighting invisible enemies. I love her heart, and treated her as my queen, when all the world wanted was to take everything she had left. No, there was no mention of me in the movie, and a lot of what you saw was not how it transpired, body her body still bears my name, and her heart could never forget me. I just thought i'd give y'all some inside perspective from someone who truly knows the beautiful, damaged, confused, lonely, vigilant woman i once tried to save from abuse by family, friends, feds, and the mass majority.a lost babygirl. if u think u know, you have no idea!

Posted by: j.d. | November 27, 2004 03:52 PM

I have known Janette and her entire family for over 13 years now, I was her maintance man at the flowergate apts in metairie and later on drove a united cab making sure to go out of my way anytime jeanette called for a cab and id hear gimme a cab around 1 on north alexander. Both Jeanette and the many beautiful girls were awesome tippers and were never in the hotel more than maybe 10 minutes so I would always wait. Jeanette is a truly awesome woman with a huge heart and I am proud to call her a friend! Mwah love ya sweetie! casey

Posted by: casey nunez | May 5, 2006 12:19 AM

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My thanks,
Richard

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