New York Strip Clubs: Neighbors claim ’sex toy seller’ turned condo into an extreme party spot: suit

By DAREH GREGORIAN
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3:14 PM, March 10, 2010
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1:27 PM, March 10, 2010
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A Manhattan businessman has transformed his basement Tribeca condo into an “extreme party” spot — complete with “fire massages,” “flame feats” and a “stripper pole,” court papers charge.
In a bid to avoid possible legal liability for the bacchanalian bashes, the owner, James McGown, transferred the deed for the apartment to his six-year-old daughter, Annabelle, his disgusted neighbors claim in papers filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court.
McGown bought the basement unit at 109 Reade St. in 2006, and secretly switched the deed over to his daughter a year later, the suit says.
He then stopped paying condo fees and his mortgage papers, and in November of last year, leased the space to a tenant named Dimitri Dimoulakis, the filing says.

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New York Strip Clubs: Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud

Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud
NEW YORK
The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.
Martina Duran and Robert Arias were each ordered held on $250,000 bail Tuesday after being charged with larceny, identity theft and other crimes. The pair owned Club Kalua, where Bell’s bachelor party ended in tragedy in 2006.
Undercover detectives investigating reports of prostitution at the club killed the unarmed Bell and wounded two friends in a 50-shot barrage after following them outside. Three officers who claimed they believed the men had a gun were later acquitted of manslaughter.
Prosecutors in the fraud case allege Duran and Arias were part of a $2 million scheme to use stolen identities to buy and sell three properties. There was no immediate response to a phone message left with Duran’s attorney. Her son’s lawyer declined comment.

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New York Strip Clubs: Bell’s Dad Wants to See Officers in Shooting Testify

NEW YORK (1010 WINS)  — A Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday gave the city until May to decide whether they will represent the three NYPD detectives charged in the wrongful death lawsuit of Sean Bell.
The judge rejected the city’s request for a six-month postponement of the civil suit filed nearly three years ago.
 
The case was put on hold while the three officers faced criminal charges and a civil rights investigation.
Juliet Papa reports
Officers Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver were acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting that killed Sean Bell outside a strip club in 2006 while leaving his bachelor party on what would have been his wedding day. 
Bell’s two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were also injured in the shooting.
The detectives are defendants in the federal lawsuit.
City attorneys say departmental action is pending for the officers.
Bell’s father William wants to see the three officers testify. “They got to say what they did,” he said outside the court Wednesday.
Attorney Michael Hardy says the officers will have to confront every issue that happened the night of the deadly shooting.

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New York Strip Clubs: Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup

This week Sam Sifton at the Times upgrades Strip House, the swank Greenwich Village steak house, to two stars. (The paper last reviewed it in 2000.) “William Grimes, in a review for Times that year, wrote that Strip House ‘wasn’t so much a steakhouse as a catalog of hip references to the idea of a steakhouse.’ He awarded the restaurant one star. Now it deserves two,” Sifton declares. “Age has given David Rockwell’s design for the room a kind of gravitas, and with it the restaurant has gained some of the clubby appeal you used to be able to find at places like Gino, on Lexington Avenue, which has a similar layout, or in the bar room at 21. (As at 21, there is great fun to be had in snooping about the place. In addition to portraits of Viennese strippers, torch singers and ancient celebrities on the walls, there is a signed portrait of Thurgood Marshall near the bar.)… And the food is generally marvelous, the steak often superb.”

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New York Strip Clubs: Club Kalua owners charged with mortgage fraud

NEW YORK — The mother and son owners of the defunct strip club made infamous by the shooting of Sean Bell have been charged in a mortgage fraud case in Queens.

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New York Strip Clubs: Owners of NY club where groom was shot are charged

Owners of NY club where groom was shot are charged
(AP) – 3 hours ago
NEW YORK — A mother and son who owned a New York City strip club made infamous by a 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man there on his wedding day have been charged in a mortgage fraud case.
Martina Duran and Robert Arias were each ordered held on $250,000 bail Tuesday after being charged with larceny and identity theft. They owned the now-defunct Club Kalua, where Sean Bell’s 2006 bachelor party ended in tragedy.
Detectives investigating reports of prostitution at the club killed Bell and wounded two friends after following them outside. Three officers who said they believed the men had a gun were acquitted of manslaughter.
Prosecutors allege Duran and Arias were part of a $2 million scheme to use stolen identities to buy and sell properties.

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New York Strip Clubs: Tiger Woods update: Tiger and Elin seen kissing and in love

The source also stated that residents in the Windermere, Florida neighborhood have become used to seeing Tiger and Elin together in pubic again. Radar also reports that Elin is planning on moving back home with Tiger and sources reveal that may happen at any time in the immediate future.
Tiger Woods held a press conference and apologized to his wife and fans for his behavior regarding a slew of mistresses that went public in what may be one of the largest sex scandals of all time. Tiger admitted that he had a problem and went to sexual rehabilitation therapy where he underwent treatment for sexual addiction.
Some of Tiger Woods’ mistresses included porn stars, strippers, and cocktail waitresses. At one point it was suggested that the two would divorce but at this point, it appears they are committed to saving their marriage.

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New York Strip Clubs: Kissing in Public Gets You Nothing but Trouble

… Two other people who can’t kiss without making waves are Elin and Tiger Woods. According to Radar Online, the pair were caught kissing yesterday near their home in Florida. So it looks like the divorce is off and it’s time for another round of headlines about their relationship. But isn’t this what married people are supposed to do? And at least it’s Elin and not some nasty cocktail waitress who used to be a stripper.

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New York Strip Clubs: Strip House

William Grimes, in a review for The New York Times that year, wrote that Strip House wasn’t so much a steakhouse as “a catalog of hip references to the idea of a steakhouse.” He awarded the restaurant one star.
Now it deserves two. Age has given David Rockwell’s design for the room a kind of gravitas, and with it the restaurant has gained some of the clubby appeal you used to be able to find at places like Gino, on Lexington Avenue, which has a similar layout, or in the bar room at “21.” (As at “21,” there is great fun to be had in snooping about the place. In addition to portraits of Viennese strippers, torch singers and ancient celebrities on the walls, there is a signed portrait of Thurgood Marshall near the bar.)

See the full article from “New York Times”

New York Strip Clubs: Brick City Connections: Brick City Burlesque

Popularized in the United States in the 19th century, burlesque evolved as a mix of adult entertainment, a performing art, and satiric comedy. Burlesque often draws focus to the female form, but the main attractions are the actresses themselves. Modern burlesque is often thought of as classier than traditional stripping because of the artistic quality of the show.
At Brick City Burlesque, performers Minnie Tonka and Philly Caramel appeared on stage last Thursday.
Each of them was featured in three acts. Minnie Tonka performed a Mary Tyler Moore routine to the theme song from the show, danced in a gold dress in a more erotic style, and finished with a reverse strip tease. The last one was the only instance of full nudity in the show, though it was right at the beginning. For someone putting clothing on, it was oddly compelling. It felt as though she reversed the paradigm of taking clothes off, but still did it seductively.

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