THE heady smell of designer perfume and expensive cigarettes lingered in the air, laughter echoed down the lavishly decorated halls, and corks popped as the best champagne liberally flowed. It was the ...

Netflix has seen a fair amount of success with its French titles; series like Lupin, Call My Agent!, and La Revolution are proof enough of that. The latest French addition, Madame Claude, shines a ...

“Madame Claude,” released April 2 on Netflix, fails to meaningfully connect the film’s representation of sex work to gender-based violence or the power and politics involved in the job. (Photo from ...

Madame Claude’s notoriety as a brothel keeper for the Parisian elite was at its peak from the swinging 1960s to the mid-70s. The “Lady pimp of the nation” had among her star-studded clientele list, ...

There are two things that people will always pay money for – food and sex," said Madame Claude, "and I wasn't any good at cooking." The 92-year-old Frenchwoman was the grandest and most colourful ...

The French madam's client list reportedly included JFK, Marlon Brando and Muammar Gaddafi Madame Claude, a French madam whose client list reportedly included JFK, Marlon Brando and Muammar Gaddafi, ...

The director of a new film about France's most famous brothel owner has claimed she was something of a feminist icon, despite being known for hating women and forcing 'her girls' to have plastic ...

Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of ...

Fernande Grudet (Madame Claude) in 1986 Credit: Photo: AFP/Getty Images Madame Claude (real name Fernande Grudet), who has died aged 92, was known to the international jet set as perhaps the most ...