Lulu White - New Orleans - 1 of the Most Infamous Brothel Madams

Lulu White - New Orleans
(1868 - August 20, 1931) was a brothel madam, procuress and entrepreneur in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Storyville period.

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New Orleans Police Department mug shot of Lulu White, 1920

Part of Lulu White's charm was that the general public of New Orleans didn't quite know where she was from. Was she from Alabama? Cuba? Jamaica?
White, on different occasions, would lay claim to each, although she was actually born in Alabama in 1868.
She got her start posing for pornographic photos in the 1880s, and in 1894 established her high-end brothel, Mahogany Hall, in Storyville, the only place where prostitution was legal in New Orleans, LA.

Calling herself the "Diamond Queen" for claiming to having the largest private jewelry collection in the South, White exploited the "exotic," proudly touting that all of her prostitutes were one eighth black.
It was her way of rebelling against the Jim Crow laws.

In 1906, she ran into financial difficulties that left her destitute, and moved to California.
She commuted back and forth between California and Louisiana several times over the course of her career and kept a high profile until the demise of Storyville.

Soon after prostitution in Storyville was shut down in 1917, White got into trouble with the law in a serious way: She opened a brothel too close to a military base and consequently served three years of jail time.

Jazz historian Al Rose sought documentation of her death, and believed that she died at the residence of former madam Willie Piazza in 1931.
However, a teller at the National Bank of New Orleans reported that in 1941, White made a withdrawal.
Otherwise, little information about her post-Storyville life remains

After getting pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson, White went right back to what she knew: she opened up another brothel and stayed in business until her death.

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Moving forward pic:
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How I would love to listen to her thoughts on the SESTA/FOSTA law in this day

The problem with this particular madam is the part where it says “procuress.” That was a particularly disturbing practice. They would kidnap poor young girls, lure some with false promises, and then lock them up in “break-in” houses. Which were a place where male “specialists” would “break them in” by repeatedly raping them. Then, of course, they were forced to work in brothels.

Some infamous New Orleans procuresses of the time:
Madam Mary Thompson
Miss Carol
Mother Mansfield
Spanish Agnes
Emma Johnson
Nellie Haley

All prolific practitioners of that horrific act.

Amazing how much oldest-profession-in-the-world history is right here in New Orleans. I've driven past the Basin Super Market and never knew it's significance.

Interior of Madam Lulu White's famous Mahogany Hall. This was one of the "High Class" brothels on Basin St

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Now that's one hell of an incall location!

I love this. Old history has always fascinated me especially when it talks about the oldest profession. LOL I love the in-call. Fireplace is pristine...

Thanks ~P for sharing.

M.M.

Storyville made the news today. New Orleans’s Red Light District

The 'Blue Book'
Names and description of the women
(The blue books portrayed a romanticized,
consumer-oriented view of Storyville generated for white men, and life for the women, especially women of color)

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Couldn't have done this article w/out mentioning LuLu White.
I absolutely love all the photos.
The incalls are pristine.

Article: https://hyperallergic.com/378574/sto...t-new-orleans/

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Very interesting article about a time when prostitution was legal in New Orleans

Thanks, ~P

I think that it should be legal everywhere, as long as you have a clean bill of health from a health provider. And I think they should charge a lady to have a license to do this kind of work which would gain revenue for whatever City that they wanted to work in, and if necessary the government could charge taxes. But that's just my opinion LOL it should be legal as it is the oldest profession.

M.M.

Keep these coming P, the stories are fascinating.

^ I will. I love old history and prostitution is very much alive
and I forever
pay homage to my 'Sisters' of the past.

#It is life!!

I am a member of a Mardi gras krewe called the kdw Krewe of drunken *****s...
We dress in period fashion corsets and bloomers and pay homage to the storyville starlettes.. It's so much fun ..our logo is the *****-dis-lisAttachment 35294Attachment 35295

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Hey, THAT is pretty cool, Nolastarlett. I like your *****-de-lis

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I am a member of a Mardi gras krewe called the kdw Krewe of drunken *****s...
We dress in period fashion corsets and bloomers and pay homage to the storyville starlettes.. It's so much fun ..our logo is the *****-de-lisAttachment 35294Attachment 35295

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I love 'Sister'

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Originally Posted by myren1900

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Hey, THAT is pretty cool, Nolastarlett. I like you *****-de-lis

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Very cool!

Looks like there will be a show on 'Lulu White: The Queen of Storyville' on the 25th and the 26th

https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orle...54fdff798.html

Sounds like a very interesting show ...

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