Aubrey Plaza to star and produce The Heidi Fleiss Story biopic

Aubrey Plaza will produce and star as Heidi Fleiss in The Heidi Fleiss Story, a biopic that casts the actor in one of Hollywood’s most infamous tabloid figures. The project, directed by Leah Rachel in her feature debut, centers on the lead-up to Fleiss’s legal problems in the mid-1990s as she fights to derail a high-profile investigation into her upscale Los Angeles prostitution operation. Filming is planned to begin in Los Angeles in the coming months, with Plaza portraying Fleiss and a script co-written by Rachel and Rachel Sennott, alongside Travis Jackson. Plaza’s production company, Evil Hag, will be involved, marking her first major project since the death of her husband earlier this year.

The film’s premise focuses on Fleiss before trial, following her attempts to maneuver through a network of connections and leverage relationships in an effort to avoid conviction. The narrative centers on an aspiring young writer named Jaclyn who assists Fleiss as she navigates the city’s social and legal pressures. The project also positions Fleiss’s notorious past—her role in an upscale prostitution ring that drew clients from Hollywood’s upper echelons—as a lens through which to...