HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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How ambitious LA girl Heidi Fleiss rose to become a “Hollywood Madam” in the early 90s, and how she fell at the hands of American sexual hypocrisy. A kaleidoscopic look at sex, drugs, glamour and corruption in Los Angeles.

  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Chapter 13: Valley of the Dolls

    Chapter 13 "Valley of the Dolls": As the old adult film industry evaporates, a new world emerges. Jenna finds new notoriety on Twitter and TikTok as her porn stardom fades. New attacks from the right wing threaten to undermine porn’s hard-won legality.

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    26 January 2026, 11:00 am
  • 58 minutes 35 seconds
    Chapter 12: Heel Turn

    Chapter 12 "Heel Turn": Jenna announces she’s leaving porn with a dramatic awards show speech.  A new crop of unlikely porn tycoons and internet stars emerge online as the ecosystem of Porn Valley and its studio system continues to collapse into streaming. 

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    19 January 2026, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Chapter 11: Pirates!

    Chapter 11 “Pirates!”: As the porn industry makes record profits in the early 2000s, upstart studio Digital Playground makes the highest budget adult film ever called Pirates just as online piracy begins to destroy the entire adult film industry.

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    12 January 2026, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Chapter 10: Beyond JennaWorld

    Chapter 10 “Beyond Jennaworld”: Heather Hunter becomes the first Black female porn superstar and tries to cross over into rap. Performer Sean Michaels moves into directing to try to tackle the porn industry’s racism issues firsthand.

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    5 January 2026, 11:00 am
  • 18 minutes 46 seconds
    Chapter 9.5: Moms I'd Like to Film

    Chapter 9.5 "Moms I’d Like To Film": A 20 minute minisode about the history of another low budget sometimes very profitable film genre: sex comedies! with Tess Lynch in dual roles as Jennifer Coolidge (as Stifler’s Mom) and as Kim Cattrall.

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    29 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 56 minutes 17 seconds
    Chapter 9: The Game

    Chapter 9 “The Game”: Jenna signs a book deal. The story of girlboss publishing tycoon Judith Regan’s own tumultuous rise and fall, and how Jenna’s co-writer Neil Strauss went on to cover the rise of male pickup artists.

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    22 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    Chapter 8: Club Jenna

    Chapter 8 “Club Jenna”: Jenna starts her own internet studio called Club Jenna and falls in love with porn producer Jay Grdina.

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    15 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Chapter 7: Cybersex

    Chapter 7 “Cybersex”: Porn hits the internet and a gold rush ensues. The history of phone sex hotlines and early internet adult pioneers like Danny Ashe and Cindy Margolis. A hustler named Seth Warshavsky turns Seattle into a cam girl (and boy) mecca with his company Internet Entertainment Group.

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    8 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    Chapter 6: Climaxing

    Chapter 6 “Climaxing”: Jenna breaks through into mainstream media as a guest on Howard Stern’s show and becomes a superstar. She sweeps awards shows from Cannes to Las Vegas and becomes increasingly obsessed with her own fame.

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    1 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Chapter 5: Savannah

    Chapter 5 “Savannah”: The story of Jenna’s porn star inspiration Savannah, and how the mainstream media focused on only tragic stories of adult film stars to create a narrative that the adult film industry is a death trap. 

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    24 November 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    Chapter 4: The Valley Goes Gonzo

    Chapter 4 “The Valley Goes Gonzo”: Jenna fends off her drug issues and a bad boyfriend in Las Vegas. She goes to LA, makes new friends and shoots her first porn at the height of the “gonzo” trend in adult film.

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    17 November 2025, 11:00 am
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