# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-m-fleiss
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:10:17.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-m-fleiss"
name: "Paul M. Fleiss"
slug: "paul-m-fleiss"
description: "Paul Murray Fleiss was an American pediatrician and author known for his unconventional medical views. Fleiss was a popular and sought-after pediatrician in the Greater Los Angeles area, both among poor and middle-class patients living near his Los Feliz office and among Southern California celebrities. Fleiss was a breastfeeding and anti-circumcision advocate. He recommended but did not insist upon childhood vaccinations, and stated he could be \"convinced either way\" as to whether HIV causes AIDS. In 1995, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bank fraud in relation to his daughter Heidi's prostitution ring."
tagline: "American physician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Paul_Fleiss_1951.jpg/330px-Paul_Fleiss_1951.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-09-08"
deathDate: "2014-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.4
  momentum:             5.894428152492669
  historical:           4.2567
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281576/"
    handle:    "nm0281576"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "باول موراى فليش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_M._Fleiss"
    title: "Paul M. Fleiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_M._Fleiss"
    title: "Paul M. Fleiss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_M._Fleiss"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7152114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1400955"
    title: "Paul Fleiss, M.D."
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations