Bert’s Secret

From 1946 to 1958, Bertha Moskowitz was the most powerful woman in Manhattan. Decades before The Mayflower Madam, or the Hollywood Madam, she came to be known as the Manhattan Madam. She and her girls serviced a veritable Who's Who of New York, from celeb- rities like the Rat Pack, Bing Crosby and Ed Sullivan, to America's top industrialists, politicians and even the dark world of organized crime. She muled her illegal millions into numbered Swiss bank accounts, and she detested being called grandma. We had to call her Bert...