Flurry of Denials Greets Release of Hollywood Madam's Contacts List

Bruce Willis has never heard of Jody "Babydol" Gibson. And the late Hollywood producer Don Simpson almost certainly didn't know her. But former Sex Pistol Steve Jones did.

Gibson was a Hollywood madam, convicted in 2000 of operating an international prostitution ring that boasted a roster of 300 women ready to service the rich and famous.

But the contacts and names she kept in her "trick book" were blacked out in documents released at her trial. However those documents have now been released unedited, prompting a flurry of denials from the names listed in the records of Gibson's California Dreamin' business.

Most of those listed in the documents released by the Los Angeles superior court insisted they had never heard of her, did not recall the case, and could not explain how their names and numbers came to be in her files.

A lawyer for Willis told the Los Angeles Times that the actor had never spoken to Gibson and the story was "a complete fabrication".

However Jones, who now works as a DJ at a Los Angeles radio station, told the paper that he might have used the escort service. "It's possible," he said. "I crossed paths with her back then. She was a madam, but if I remember right she wanted to be a singer in a band."

Gibson did have a music career, but the highlights were a billboard she paid for on Sunset Strip announcing "Babydol ... coming soon", and a hit in Bali with the song Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere.

Now Gibson, who was released from prison after serving 22 months for pimping, has an autobiography to sell. Due to be published this week, Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam names dozens of famous people who she says were her clients, ranging from Top Gun producer Simpson to the Sultan of Brunei.

The book includes headings such as Robert Evans "Godfather" of Kink, referring to the producer of Chinatown and other films, and Roland Joffee's "Scarlett Letter", a misspelled reference to the film director Roland Joffé.

Although many of these names came up at Gibson's trial, none of her alleged clients were prosecuted and there was no independent evidence that any of the names in her contacts book used the services offered by California Dreamin', which charged from $500-$3,000.

Gibson, whose mother was one of Tom Cruise's first managers, moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1984. She started a modelling agency which by 1988 had become an escort service. In June 1999, she was arrested in the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel by officers from the organised crime investigation division on charges of pimping, pandering and conspiracy.

Since her 2002 release she has started a fashion line and tried to generate interest in a film of her life story.