Cop to Call Girl: Why I Left the LAPD to Make an Honest Living As a Beverly Hills Prostitute (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Those who thought they had seen the Los Angeles Police Department at its nadir on the Rodney King tape will revise their opinion after reading this shocking expose by a woman who joined the force in 1972 and left it 10 years later. Almodovar tells tales of drunkenness, extortion, theft, statutory rape and even murder by her ex-colleagues. And, when she left the force, she discovered a new dimension to police viciousness. According to Almodovar, she was criminally entrapped, not because of her new career as a $200-an-hour call girl, but because she had made known that she was writing a "tell all" book about her experiences as a police officer. She claims that she was set up by the LAPD on a charge of "pandering" and was imprisoned for 50 days for an offense usually punished by probation. Although Almodovar's story of her treatment by the police is convincing, her account is too long and at times tedious. Having withdrawn her $3 million lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, the LAPD and various individual police officers for conspiracy to violate her civil rights, Almodovar now heads the Hollywood branch of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), a rights organization for prostitutes. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Library Journal

This tawdry autobiography chronicles Almodovar's life from repressive childhood to a stint as a Los Angeles traffic cop to glamorous call girl. Supposedly written as an expose of corruption in the LAPD, this book instead reads like an extended kiss-and-tell letter to Penthouse , explicitly extolling the virtues of prostitution ("what horny woman wouldn't opt for such a lifestyle?"). Disillusioned by dishonesty in the police force, Almodovar embraced a life of prostitution and began work on a book about her life as a cop-turned-call girl. However, she claims that once the LAPD found out about the manuscript, they arrested her for pandering (a felony) to keep her quiet--and she served a three-year prison sentence. Unfortunately, what might have been a serious study of the moral and legal aspects of prostitution is undermined by Almodovar's seeming desire to imitate The Happy Hooker. Not recommended.
- Rebecca House Stankowski, Purdue Univ. Calumet Lib., Hammond, Ind.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 314 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671794256
• ISBN-13: 978-0671794255
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,723,304 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TOTAL BRAVERY - BUT AN EXAMPLE OF STUPIDITY, August 3, 2000

By	Powerline Ministries (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cop to Call Girl (Paperback)

How on earth can a girl think she could get away with becoming a call girl after being a police officer. What about ratting out the principles of your old profession so you can have the privilege of the new profession? This is the story of a girl who discovered virtue in prostitution and flaws with the police department. She reveals both in this very interesting chronicle of what really takes place in the prostitution business. I recommend you read this book so you can learn two lessons - prostitution don't pay and ratting out your own will not lead to a happy ending. This is such an example. I rate this publication five stars for honesty and depth.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars police corruption and civil liberties, August 21, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Cop to Call Girl (Paperback)

This is not as good as Mayflower Madam. It tndes to be repetitive. Anybody who is concerned about freedom in this country shoulbe shocked by the bladent disregard of due preocess by the Lapd. This was a woman sent to prison for writing a book. not supposed to happen. Thw waste of public resources by arresting prostotutes is well illustrated in this book. It is time for private consenting adults to be free.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cop to Call Girl, February 1, 2000

By	Angel Goddess Ministry (Pleiades, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cop to Call Girl (Paperback)

Norma Jean is an original, covering the days she was a metermaid in Los Angeles up to her peak days as a Beverly Hills call girl (when she met yours truly and subsequently appeared on the same talk shows with me). Besides doing the media circuit, Norma Jean is now living in Montana with her (former actor) husband and spends much of her time as a human rights activist with the worldwide internet pro movements.