An HBO documentary on former Hollywood madam, now Pahrump resident Heidi Fleiss, premiered Wednesday at the L.A. Film Festival and will air as a series on pay per view cable TV beginning July 21, the L.A. Times reported.

The documentary, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," from veteran documentarians Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, chronicles Fleiss' attempts to open a brothel for women in Crystal in 2006, the newspaper reported.

It will be the second documentary on the controversial figure, following "Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam" released in 1995 by Nick Broomfield which has aired extensively on the Documentary Channel.

The critique by L.A. Times writer Paul Brownfield, states Fleiss is pictured as "alternately kooky, unpredictable, sweet, sad and savvy, a pop culture figure having decamped to the Nevada prairie, where the terrain can look like Mars and Fleiss is seen collecting rocks."

The newspaper write-up stated the latest documentary will chronicle her struggles with addiction to methamphetamine, Valium and Vicodin. The obstacles she faces getting a brothel license to open her stud- farm brothel for women are probed and her association with local brothel owner Joe Richards.

Then there's Fleiss' fascination with exotic birds.

Fleiss didn't plan to attend the premiere, the L.A. Times reported, but liked the $250,000 pay from HBO.

Fleiss recently opted out of appearing in a reality series on VH1, "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," the newspaper reported.