The incredible life of the porn queen of Times Square, who was born in Thessaloniki

THE Chellie Wilson embody it american dream. “He believed that the America it was the best place in the world, that people were free to do whatever they wanted to do,” daughter Bondi Walters told The Post. And what she wanted to do Wilson was to run an empire porn…

A Greek Jewish immigrant who was born in 1908 in ThessalonikiWilson, left to escape the Holocaust and arrived in New York in 1939, where her first job was selling Hotdog on a trolley at Dyckman Pier. However, in the middle of it 1960shad become one of the tycoons porn movies of Times Square, while “running” five theaters along Eighth Avenue during the so-called Golden Age of Porn.

A new documentary, the “Queen of the Deuce”presents hidden aspects of her “wild” life Wilsonof a “fiery” character who thrived in a strongly male-dominated environment and hosted a alternating cast of guests in her apartment above one of her theaters, the Eros, now considered one of the bleakest blocks in the neighborhood—on the east side of Eighth Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets.

The golden age of porn waned and Wilson gradually left the business, beginning in the late 1970s, as the winds of change began to blow through Times Square. Today, the former Eros has become a Pub, although you can still see Greek statues that Wilson had installed to adorn the theater, Walters said. Two doors down at 728 Eighth Ave., Wilson’s Venus Theater is now Trattoria.

Wilson died on 1994 at the age of 86, but not before a final gesture that came as no surprise to her family: In a letter to her daughters, she wrote shopping list for the food that will served at her memorial service and gave instructions as to what they should do.

“He said people should come to my apartment and toast her,” Walters said. “And she said she had done her duty here on Earth and returned to God. I never thought of her as religious, but she obviously had some things that were very private that she kept to herself.”