But some months later, a satisfied client set up a website and registered her brothel on this newfangled thing called the Internet. That’s when her business really took off. “We started to get a really nice clientele, and it just boomed,” Julie recalls. “We were one of the first on the Internet. It changed our business in a day.” Julie had embarked on her career as a madam on the advice of a prosecutor. In the early 1980s, she had met an Argentinian drug dealer named Eduardo Moya who lived in the same building in Manhattan as she did. At the time, she was living with the pimp who brought her to New York in 1982. But he was arrested for bringing prostitutes across state lines, and some months after she gave birth to his son, Jerry, he was sent to prison. She and Eduardo soon moved in together. She married Eduardo in 1985 and five years later moved to Argentina with him, when he decided to retire and live off his illegally acquired gains in a gated community in Mendoza, eleven hours west of Buenos Aires, near the border with Chile.
