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  • The Constitutional Court on Thursday reserved judgment in an application to rescind an order to seize assets, worth millions, of alleged brothelkeeper Andrew Phillips, owner of The Ranch.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The Constitutional Court will on Thursday hear a challenge to a restraint order relating to the seizure of alleged brothelkeeper

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Another alleged young victim of New Plymouth brothelkeeper Michael Hastie says she was lucky to escape his clutches - unlike a 15-year-old Wellington runaway he put to work as a prostitute.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • Had the reply been, "She was THE well-known brothelkeeper ...," that could have been interpreted as a put-down of the questioner, as if to say, "You stupid ignoramus!

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4 1991

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