Belle Brezing (June 16, 1860 – August 11, 1940) was a nationally known madam in Lexington, Kentucky at the end of the 19th century and into the beginning of the 20th. Her brothel was known as the "most orderly of disorderly houses". Early life Belle Brezing was born Mary Belle Cox, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Ann Cox. Sarah Cox was a dressmaker who also worked part-time as a prostitute. Sarah Cox subsequently married George Brezing, a saloon operative, grocer and alcoholic, in 1861, whose name Belle adopted. At the age of 12, the age of consent at the time, Brezing was seduced by Dionesio Mucci, a local merchant who was three times her age. In 1874, when Brezing was 14 years old, Mucci gifted her with a scrapbook, in which she started keeping magazine clippings, Valentine cards, and photographs—as well as a poem she'd composed, entitled Kisses: Sitting to night in my chamber, a school girl figure and lonely, I kiss the end of my finger. that and that only. Reveries rises from the smokey mouth Memories linger surround me. Boys that are married or single. Gather around me. School boys in pantalets romping, Boys that now are growing to be young lads, Boys that like to be kissed, and like to give kisses. Kisses—well I remember them; Those in the corner were fleetest; Sweet were those on the sly in the Dark were the sweetest Girls are tender and gentle, To woo was almost to win them. They lips are good as ripe peaches, and cream for finger. Girls are sometimes flirts, and coquettish; Now catch and kiss if you can sin; Could I catch both—ah, wasn't I a happy Girl, Boys is pretty and blooming sweetly, yea Sweetness over their rest Them I loved dearly and truly, Last and the best. The relationship with Mucci lasted two years, although Brezing had other lovers during this time, including cigar makers James Kenney and Johnny Cook. Soon after her 15th birthday in 1875, Brezing became pregnant—possibly by Johnny Cook, but she had at least three lovers at this time. On September 14, 1875, when Brezing was 3 months pregnant, she married James Kenney, but never lived with him. After the wedding ceremony, she returned to her mother's house. Nine days later, Brezing wrote to Cook asking for a gun. Cook was found outside Brezing's house with a bullet in