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He played queens, courtesans, goddesses and brothel madams with a studied grace.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

There, the hard-working seven-person cast of “Dark Noon,” which opened on Monday, spends much of the production’s 105 minutes assembling the edifices of westward-creeping American civilization, from home to brothel to church to jail.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

He’s penned several children’s books and a novella called “The Legend of Diddley Squatt,” loosely inspired by the life of the late comedian Richard Pryor, who grew up in a brothel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

Of course, his Spanish background was essential to his genius: “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” was named after a brothel in Barcelona, and “Guernica” was a response to a fascist atrocity in the Spanish Civil War.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

The sept tempted him no more than the brothel; his own gods kept their temples in the wild places, where the weirwoods spread their bone-white branches.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Bars, brothels, warehouses and religious missions grew around the buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group of women who were forced to work in military brothels during World War Two.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023

The Tabor Opera House quickly grabbed the attention of a bustling, rowdy city full of competing theaters, saloons and brothels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

Kawamura, who has courted controversy before for trying to shut down an exhibition on women forced to work in Japanese army brothels during World War Two, was re-elected in April for a fourth term.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2021

He did everything in his power to abolish slavery as slavery, not simply to abolish slavery when unconnected with brothels.

From Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew