"No preggos in the champagne room" is apparently the unofficial motto of Larry Flynt's Hustler Club, which is at the center of a new lawsuit from a former server who claims she was fired once her baby bump began to show. Based on our extremely scientific research, Yahoo message board members are divided in opinion about pregnant strippers, though at least one random commenter believes that "Pregnant bodies are beautiful!" more ›

A Red Hook club billing itself as a "cabaret and burlesque lounge" is pissing off its neighbors, who claim the place is really just a strip club, bringing with it all the delightful patrons that a strip club in an industrial stretch of Brooklyn could ever hope to attract. more ›

Say you're looking to impress your date. Take her somewhere real nice. Somewhere upscale, romantic. Might we suggest the Penthouse Executive Club? Why, it's the third most expensive restaurant in the city, and at least someone is guaranteed to put out. more ›

There's a holy war brewing between cab drivers and the owners of taxi medallions who lease the medallions to drivers. According to Taxi and Limousine Commission rules, whoever owns the costly medallion (they currently go for $600,000 and up!) gets to call the shots on the advertising that goes on the roof of the cab. But cabbies—especially the ones who own their vehicles but still lease their medallions—are calling on the TLC to give them veto power over ads with objectionable content, like ones for strip clubs. more ›

After a 32-year-old lawyer died of an aneurysm before paying for his tab, Rick's Cabaret vowed to never let another customer wait for EMS workers to arrive before they received medical attention. So if you find your chest seizing up in the middle of a lap dance, the managers at Rick's are now certified in CPR and the use of defibrillators. You mean we won't be able to get out of paying for lapdances by faking heart attacks anymore? Guess it's back to using coupons to get into New York Dolls. more ›

More details have emerged about the off-duty cop was stabbed at infamous Bronx strip club the Crazy Horse Cabaret early yesterday morning. And as one harried Crazy Horse employee put it, "It's bad enough you gotta deal with a--holes, but a cop?" more ›

An off-duty cop was stabbed early this morning at a Bronx strip club. The unnamed officer was stabbed in the abdomen around 6 a.m. this morning at the Crazyhorse Cabaret on Boston Road. It's currently unknown what prompted the stabbing, but the officer is in stable condition. It was the same club where a former Sopranos actor had been drinking before a bungled robbery and tragic confrontation with another officer five years ago. more ›

Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that a strip club in West Babylon, Long Island had to close, because of a court agreement its owner signed in 2005 promising to close the business by November 2009. (The area was not zoned for "adult entertainment.") Of course, the business didn't want the good times to end and was still operating past the promised closing date. One relieved resident told WCBS 880, “I’m very happy to hear that cause I have a little brother. You used to see condoms and everything on the street." more ›

Adam Clayton Powell IV, who is trying to unseat embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, was caught taking thousands of dollars of campaign donations from the owner of Bronx strip club Sin City. The Daily News confronted and browbeat Powell into promising to return the money yesterday, telling him about owner Konstantine (Gus) Drakopoulos, who pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2002 and was recently slapped with a racial and sexual harassment suit by dancers at his club. more ›

This one sounds familiar: six ex-cocktail waitresses from Bronx's Sin City strip club have filed a lawsuit, claiming their managers took their tips and routinely groped them. Janelle Denalli tells the Daily News, "I'm not grinding. I'm not giving anyone any lap dances. I'm just serving drinks....This is a workplace." Because if she were grinding all night, all the sexual harassment would be totally acceptable. more ›

Last year a Queens community was protesting a strip club whose risqué billboard loomed over their neighborhood. While locals didn't seem to mind the Platinum Club being there (hey, everyone needs to blow off some steam at the end of a long day!), they did mind the x-rated eyesore. Now the club may vanish all together—the Daily News reports that the establishment owes more than $150K in rent and recently closed its doors after getting an eviction notice and not getting their liquor license renewed. more ›

A city sheriff has lost his job after detectives caught him working as a security supervisor at two Queens strip clubs for nine months while he was supposed to be recovering from an on-the-job car accident. Sgt. Jefferson Rodriguez was granted permission to take the time off from October 2008 through June 2009, while collecting his $83,241 salary. According to court papers obtained by the Post, Rodriguez spent the time working as an armed security guard at two strip joints (Perfection and Cityscape) where his private security firm holds contracts. But his lawyer insists he was there for pleasure, not business. more ›

Former Scores stripper (and author of No Man's Land, Ruth Fowler, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the club last year alleging (amongst other things) that she was pressured into having sex with upscale clients as well as managers. Now the Daily News reports that the strip club is striking back; yesterday their lawyers claimed Fowler was "frequently topless" and left the impression on male bosses "that she would have an interest in seeing them or entertaining their attentions outside of the club premises." We're not strip club experts, but... sounds like the girl was just doing her job! Her lawyer reacted to the club's legal team by saying they're just giving "the typical lame answer of blaming the victim." more ›

In a shocking allegation, a former cocktail waitress at the Penthouse Executive Club claims the managers cultivated an unprofessional atmosphere of sordid sexual degradation. Lourdes Garcia, 34, filed a lawsuit against the club yesterday, accusing the owner of firing her after she repeatedly rebuffed the sexual of advances of both male and female managers. Club manager John Loukas "repeatedly" invited Garcia into his office, "implying that he wanted to have a sexual relationship," according to court papers. Loukas allegedly "told (Garcia) ‘if you want me to help you, you have to help me. There are no cameras up here." more ›

A Queens community has been battling a strip club's billboard all year, and the Daily News says judgment day is on the way. The locals allegedly have no problem with the Platinum Club on Rockaway Blvd, it's their sign they to destroy. more ›

Lawyers for a Manhattan strip club say the 22-year-old beauty pageant queen whose photo they appropriated to advertise the club is just suing them to get attention. You may recall that back in April, former Miss Oklahoma Laci Kay Scott filed a lawsuit against Ten's Gentlemen's Club after she discovered that the club had been distributing cards on the street with her image—and without her knowledge. Scott, who's been trying to get her modeling career off the ground with gigs posing in prom dress ads, says being mistakenly perceived as a stripper could disqualify her from the pagaent circuit and damage her career. But Ten's owners think this lawsuit has been just great for her. more ›

Hmm, is this a threat or a promise? The local Community Board in Long Island City is trying to block a liquor license sought by Gus Drakopoulos, who operates the Sin City strip club in the Bronx. Drakopoulos wants to open another topless club near the Queensboro Bridge, and he's willing to go nude nuclear if the SLA denies his license. According to state law, dancers in a strip club serving booze can only reveal their breasts. But sober gentlemen above the age of 18 are entitled to the Full Monty, and that's what Drakopoulus is vowing to give them. more ›

Today PETA released its newest ads in the long campaign where famous figures such as Pamela Anderson and Dennis Rodman profess that they'd rather "Go Naked" than wear fur. Who's joining those illustrious ranks? It's the strippers from Rick's Cabaret! PETA says, "Nowadays, savvy investors are looking for safe bets." Those bets probably wouldn't include investing in the establishment that the animal rights organization highlights as "the only strip joint on NASDAQ." Shares of Rick's currently sell for $2.54, a year after they went for over $25. more ›

Antonio Pierce's wife and Mets sportscaster Jocelyn Maldonado was having none of it when a Post reporter showed up at her house for a comment about her husband's alleged hijinks. See, before Pierce and Plaxico Burress went to a nightclub (where Burress shot himself), they went to Head Quarters strip club where Pierce was taped canoodling with a mysterious woman. Maldonado slammed the door in the reporter's face after saying, "That's not even him." Still, the Post claims it was—and that the woman later drove Pierce and Burress to the hospital on the fateful night. The strip club video is also given more romance novel treatment in today's Post, which recounts the play-by-play of how the Giants lineman "leans in to kiss her while briefly stroking her buttocks." We wonder if he tried that move on Maldonado at their Maui wedding in May while '90s R&B group Jodeci played their hit "All My Life" as the couple's first dance. more ›

Plaxico Burress had probably hoped that Super Bowl XLII would remain the most analyzed night of his life, but unfortunately for him that no longer appears to be the case. The latest details to come out of the saga that ended with Plax shooting himself in the leg two weeks ago come from the strip club that he and his teammates Antonio Pierce and Ahmad Bradshaw stopped by for a couple of hours before the infamous incident at Latin Quarter. Sources connected to Head Quarters club tell the Post that Burress is "cheap," "very rude" and "the most unpopular celebrity that's been there." Apparently the three Giants drank two bottles of Patron tequila (not often the suggested mixer with a firearm and sweatpants) and Burress ate some of the staff's Thanksgiving turkey with his bare hands, or as the Post puts it, "like an animal." Not only did the Giants not have to pay for any of the amenities, they apparently took off without even leaving a tip. more ›

Queens residents are fuming about a massive billboard of an exotic dancer that's gone up on Rockaway Boulevard to promote the Platinum Gentleman's Club. Fox 5 peeks inside the home of one resident, who shows that when she sits down to look at her Christmas tree, the racy advertisement hovers in the background like a vision of Pottersville. What's worse is her teenage son can see it from his bedroom window, so now he knows about half-naked ladies. Enter City Councilman James Sanders, who says that if Platinum won't tear down that sign, he'll send photographers to the club to "take pictures of the great clientele and post them on the web and wherever we can advertise them." The idea is that attending a strip club is so shameful that clients will be "deterred," but didn't Owen Wilson shatter that myth that time he proudly rode his bike to Scores? more ›

Like other classy gentlemen, 39-year-old Luis Lora-Martinez liked to impress the erotic dancers at AJ's Lounge in Secaucus by tipping them with 20 dollar bills. But Lora-Martinez's tips were actually forgeries, according to Secret Service agents who arrested him after employees at the strip club called the police. It seems Lora-Martinez never watched a little movie called To Live and Die in L.A.—which shows how labor-intensive the counterfeiting process actually is—because his fake bills were produced on a computer printer on regular paper. But according to The Jersey Journal, his funny money was good enough to fool the dancers for a little while, at least. When they wised up, they directed investigators to his motel room, where they found $5,000 in fake $20s and $50s stashed away. He now faces up to ten years in prison, and will only be released on bail if he can prove he has $60,000 in non-computer printer bills. more ›

The lawyer accused of running a prostitution ring at his strip club and laundering the proceeds through a voter registration non-profit gave the Daily News an exclusive interview from his Manhattan jail. Lou Posner claims sex-for-pay was not occurring at the Hot Lap Dance Club, "We hired intelligent, well-spoken girls, some of them Ivy League girls," and said women who weren't hired were launching fake allegations against him. Powner is also upset his wife was swept up in the arrests ("The most she did was make brownies [for the staff].") but he did look on the bright side of being behind bars, while he is being held on $150,000 bail, "I need to lose some weight." more ›

At the Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street, police say customers could indulge not just in hot lap dances but some more intimate fun by the hour in cubicles, private bedrooms or even "off-premises." And what's more, the joint was run by a group of people, including one who started a voter reform advocacy group after the 2000 election and a private police force cop. more ›

A married investment broker in his 30s is suing a midtown strip club because one of his dancers hurt him real bad--and not just emotionally. Stephen Chang, who is married and works for an unnamed investment firm, went to the Hot Lap Dance Club [really NSFW beyond the homepage] where his dancer's moves were a little too hot. more ›

With his strip club in dire straits amidst allegations of on-site prostitution, Scores West owner Elliot Osher is defending his business with tortured analogies to the Clinton era. Ranting to the Daily News, Osher called the State Liquor Authority's decision to revoke his liquor license "politically motivated and ridiculous,” and went on to point out that President Bill Clinton received oral sex in the Oval Office "and they didn't close the White House." more ›

You'll only be getting babes, not booze, when you go to Scores West: The State Liquor Authority has taken away the strip club's liquor license after police found prostitution at the Chelsea joint (the Upper East Side location is not affected). An SLA administrative judge wrote that prostitution was "open and notorious such that the licensee knew or should have known of its occurrence." more ›

The man who attacked two women this weekend after picking them up under the guise of being a legit livery cab driver has been arrested. One of Torkieh Sadagheh's victims, Monica Maneiro of Morningside Heights, hailed his car after getting off work at Scores strip club on Saturday night; the 23-year-old recounts what happened next:

"Out of nowhere he just stopped the cab and jumped in the back seat. He grabbed me and had his hand over my face. When he was trying to restrain me I was just trying to calm him down. I didn't really fight back too much because if I would have he probably would have gotten more upset. So what I did was I was just trying to calm him down. I was trying to open the door at the same time without him seeing."

The Politicker has this hilarious photograph outside the East 60th Street location of strip club Scores touting a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket, as well as John McCain-Michael Bloomberg one. Nice to know that even though manager Harvey Osher and owner Richard Goldring failed to pay $3.1 million in taxes, they still believe in the democratic process. (Osher is serving weekend stints in prison; Goldring is getting probation.) more ›

The three undercover police detectives facing trial in the death of Sean Bell waived their right to a jury trial, after unsuccessfully attempting to move the trial out of Queens. Bell was killed early on the morning of his wedding, as he left the Kalua stripclub in Queens with friends. They had been celebrating Bell's impending nuptials while undercover cops were simultaneously conducting an investigation into the illegal gun trade. more ›