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Also Known As commercial sex

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Hokusai: woodcut of a woman in a brothel doorway
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Minna Everleigh
American madam
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Ada Everleigh
American madam
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano
American crime boss
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Maria Monk
American author and prostitute
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Taoka Kazuo
Japanese crime boss