Norma Wallace was no ordinary woman. At fifteen, she was working the streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter. By the 1920s, she had transformed herself into the city’s most infamous madam, running a lavish brothel frequented by politicians, movie stars, and gangsters—along with the corrupt police force that protected her.
But Wallace’s power extended beyond her business. She wielded secrets like weapons, ensuring she never faced so much as a traffic ticket—until District Attorney Jim Garrison set out to clean up the city in the 1960s. After a stint in jail, she went straight, building a successful restaurant empire.
Yet in the end, it wasn’t the law or her enemies that undid her—it was love. The Last Madam is the true story of a woman who thrived on her own terms, until passion proved her greatest downfall.
