And we had some amazing adventures. The "Inside the Actors Studio" host recalls running "a whole bordello" of prostitutes in 1950s ParisAs unlikely as it might seem, Lipton says it's true.Lipton revealed his sordid past as a pimp in 1950s France in an interview with "It was only a few years after the war. I didn't want sex. "A macquereau does nothing of that sort.

"She was my friend. In the 1950s, Lipton was a young man in that city, in search of his "rit de passage." And I said, 'Yes.' Would you like to see a sexual exhibition?' "I think if you can't earn it on your own, then you don't deserve it." He speaks and moves about entirely at his own pace, which is why it shouldn’t surprise anyone that he’s lived a far crazier life than most. And she said, 'You're broke, aren't ya?' "It was only a few years after the war," he says. I think that if you haven't earned a sexual adventure, you don't deserve it.

"I'm not ashamed of it," Lipton said.

Louis James Lipton was an American writer, lyricist, actor, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. And I did go through my 'rit de passage' in Paris. James Lipton usually doles out the questions on his popular show In a new interview, Lipton, 86, reveals that in the 1950s, shortly after the war, he was a pimp in Paris.“Men couldn’t get jobs, and in the male chauvinist Paris of that time, the women couldn’t get work at all,” he explained to Lipton reveals that he was initially a friend of a prostitute who later ended up getting him into the business.“When I ran out of money, I said, ‘I have to go home,'” he says. But when it comes to paying for sex now, Lipton says, "If you can't earn it … Here's something you don't hear every day: Dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and host of the Bravo series "Inside the Actors Studio" used to be a pimp -- according to himself. Pimp: TV show host James Lipton worked as a pimp in 1950s Paris He is best known for being the host of Inside the Actors Studio show, but James Lipton has revealed a seedier side to his past. TV He's a procurer.

I’ll arrange for you.’ So she arranged for me to do it.

It was perfectly respectable for them to go intoAccording to Lipton, he got into the pimping game via a prostitute he became "great friends" with, and soon found himself managing the careers of numerous ladies of the evening. I had to be okayed by the underworld, otherwise they would’ve found me floating in the Seine.”Of that era, Lipton says, “Young women desperately needed money for various reasons. In advance of the show's 250th episode, the "Paris was different then, still poor. Looking back, he says Marlon Brando is the one person he wished didn’t turn him down for an interview on his show.“He was reclusive in the last years of his life,” Lipton says. There was no opprobrium because it was completely regulated. It was a great year of my life.”Of course, Lipton, who is happily married to wife Kedaki Turner, added that despite his previous career choices, he was against people paying for sex. All rights reserved. He ended up in the sultry streets of the city's red-light district. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapterWe made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!Part of HuffPost Entertainment. So we were stuck, but we liked each other.Lipton continued, "Months went by, finally, I ran out of money, and one night, I went back there and said, 'I have to go back to America.' The great bordellos were still flourishing in those days before the sheriff of Paris, a woman, closed them down.