Born: Polly Adler, famed brothel operator in New York, recounted in A House is Not a Home; in Russia; (d. 1962)

The indictment outlines a brutal operation that used recruiters to find the women and brothel operators known as "ticketeros" forced them to work six days a week under the threat of violence and for little pay.

In 2007 the authorities arrested 130 pimps and "vice abettors" (e.g., brothel operators).

Many brothel operators require these tests.

Sometimes they are brokered to pimps or brothel operators, who then make them work off the purchase price.

Bundesverband Sexuelle Dienstleistung e.V., association of brothel operators.

In 1936, Kasherman was arrested in a sting operation in which a brothel operator accused him of shaking her down for $25 per month on threats he would write her up in his paper.

Subsequently, a former brothel operator from New Orleans also asserted Senator Vitter had been one her clients.

His main occupation was owning several midtown massage parlors that authorities say had up to 30 prostitutes each, making him one of the city's biggest brothel operators.