Washington, Feb 11 : Former American madam Heidi Fleiss has revealed that she has abandoned her plans of starting a brothel catering to women in rural southern Nevada.

Fleiss had first announced her plans to open a bordello featuring male prostitutes at a property she owns outside the Nye County town of Pahrump, some 60 miles west of Las Vegas, late in 2005.

"I don''t want to work so hard. ... and deal with all the nonsense in the sex business," Fox News quoted Fleiss as telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal .

Fleiss, 43, had even made plans to call the brothel "Heidi's Stud Farm", and it would have been a first in Nevada, where prostitution is legal in most rural counties, but not in the metropolitan areas surrounding Las Vegas or Reno.

Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said Fleiss never applied for a brothel license. (ANI)