“The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman.” That might sound like a tip from an advice column from the 1950s. But it’s actually a quote that was displayed, in 2018, at a Texas ...

On this day, Oct. 16, in 1984, the woman dubbed the “Mayflower Madam,” was charged with running a $1 million-a-year call-girl operation in Manhattan. Sydney Biddle Barrows, 32, was a descendant of ...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows is sitting in an Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side on a blustery February evening, weighing in on the topic that for the last 24 hours has consumed nearly everyone with ...

Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on July 20, 1985. This story was written by Frank Faso and Larry Sutton.) Madam Sydney Biddle Barrows left Manhattan Criminal Court a free woman yesterday after ...

More than two decades after her high-priced service was shut down, police are cracking down on a new generation of Manhattan madams who allegedly became wealthy by running prostitution rings for big ...

If the past decade’s psych rock revolution has seen an influx of bands devoted to the blueprints forged by The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Black Angels—not to mention enabled some long overdue ...

CHANGE FOR A $20? How often do you get to hear Sydney "Mayflower Madam" Biddle Barrows expound on feminism? She -- and other luminaries -- ask "Is it Wrong to Pay for Sex?" from a moral and ethical ...