Red Light Lizzie (fl. 1860 –1875) was thepseudonym of anAmericanmadam,procuress and underworld figure inNew York City during the mid-to late 19th century.^[1][2]

During the 1860s and 1870s, she controlled much of New York City's prostitution, along withJane the Grabber. Like her rival, Lizzie employed a number of men and women to travel to rural communities inUpstate New York andNew England to lure young girls to the city with promises of well-paying jobs. Some men were paid by Lizzie to bring girls into dive bars where, similar toShanghaiing, they would be given drugged alcohol. The victims would then beforced into prostitution, either by working in herbrothels or being "sold" to similar establishments. Both she and Jane the Grabber specialized in procuring women from wealthy families.^[3]

She owned at least twelve "houses of ill-repute" and was so successful as a procurer that she sent a monthlycircular letter to all of her clients.^[1]

• Fido, Martin.The Chronicle of Crime: The Infamous Villains of Modern History and Their Hideous Crimes. London: Carlton, 2000.ISBN 1-84222-131-0
• Petronius.New York Unexpurgated: An Amoral Guide for the Jaded, Tired, Evil, Non-conforming, Corrupt, Condemned, and the Curious, Humans and Otherwise, to Under Underground Manhattan. New York: Matrix House, 1966.

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