Today's New York Post reveals a shocking truth: strippers don't strip for the accolades or the prestige, but for money! Several dancers at Rick's Cabaret in Midtown say they pull in as much as $10,000 in a single shift. Should protesters be Occupying the pole? more ›

Are lap dances considered legitimate artistic expression? 75 year-old University of Maryland professor Judith Hanna believes so, and she testified as much in state court for Nite Moves, an Albany-area strip club that is seeking exemption from the state's sales tax that other purveyors of "dramatic or musical performances" receive on cover charges. If Patrick Henry High's Joan Henderson is reading this: Scores WAS a legitimate detour on that 10th grade field trip. more ›

20 people were arrested in an early morning raid yesterday at strip clubs in NYC and Long Island, where women from Russia and Eastern Europe danced after being illegally smuggled into the country. All 20 face racketeering and extortion crimes related to their involvement in several strip clubs, which are allegedly controlled by the Gambino and Bonanno crime families. Authorities say the ring would lure women to the U.S. with promises of jobs as waitresses, but upon arrival they'd be enlisted to dance at clubs including Cheetah's in Manhattan; Gallagher’s 2000, Perfection and Rouge in Queens; and Scene in Commack, Long Island. more ›

A man identified in court papers as W. A. Ilg has filed a lawsuit against Larry Flint's Hustler Club after a night of strippers and other stuff he can't remember left him with a $28,109.60 credit card charge. The incident may remind you of another lawsuit filed against the Hustler Club last year, when a Delaware man accused the club of unlawfully charging him more than $21,000 on two credit cards during just 90 minutes in the joint. In that case, the plaintiff claims he was so intoxicated he woke up the next day in Delaware after being driven home by a Hustler Club employee. But isn't that just the kind of personal touch one would expect for $21,000? 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 cliche in movies (and certain, uh, adult films) that many strippers are actually empowered women trying to pay their way through graduate school. Scoff if you will, but considering how many strippers have successfully sued the city or their employers in the last year, for everything from career-ending scars to sexual harassment, we're starting to think there may be something to this. 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 ›

The Post is really in its element with today's top story about a Hell's Kitchen strip club that has lost business this week because—strippers say—the Sanitation Dept. has been piling snow 15 feet high outside their front door. more ›

The Woodbridge township just doesn't know how to party. Police have charged Stanley P. Misiuk with promoting prostitution, claiming he provided members of the Avenel-Colonia First Aid Squad with strippers at their crazy late-night parties—some willing to go the extra mile for some extra cash. more ›

In a no-jail plea deal, attorney Louis "Big Daddy Lou" Posner pleaded guilty yesterday to promoting prostitution at his popular strip club, the Hot Lap Dance Club. Prosecutors busted Posner for offering much more than erotic dancing to its upscale clientele, including on-site cocaine sales, and private rooms with beds for $250 an hour (plus whatever customers gave "dancers" behind closed doors). According to Posner's detailed statement in court yesterday, it does indeed sound like a pretty raunchy place (RIP): more ›

Rick’s Cabaret on 33rd Street is claiming two of its former dancers lack the "moral character" to head a $5 million-plus class-action lawsuit against the nudie bar. More than 200 strippers say that Rick’s short-changed them while they worked there and are demanding it pay up. Now the club is launching its own attack on the two women who represent the pole-dancing army. more ›

As many as 4,500 women who worked as strippers at the Rick's Cabaret on West 33rd Street have been given the green light to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against the club. The lawsuit alleges that Rick's, a publicly traded company comprised of 19 adult nightclubs, paid strippers less than minimum wages for taking off their clothes and even charged them for using the facilities. In a press release titled "XXX-Mas Comes Early for New York Strippers," attorney E. Michelle Drake slammed the club with brio: more ›

In July 2008, the Vice Enforcement Squad raided Big Daddy Lou's Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street, which was ranked as the best of all strip clubs in the world by AskMen.com. Prosecutors say it was so beloved because the club offered much more than erotic dancing to its upscale clientele, including on-site cocaine sales, and private rooms with beds for $250 an hour (plus whatever customers gave "dancers" behind closed doors). During the raid, police arrested some dancers, including porn star Alexia Moore, on alleged prostitution charges, as well as staff members and club owner Louis Posner, a lawyer who started a voter reform advocacy group after the 2000 election. more ›

The stripper couple who lured two teenage girls they met on Myspace into an involved sexual tryst pleaded guilty to charges sprung forth from the crime on Friday. You may remember Julio Rojas and Sophie Soto as the pair of married strippers who invited two underage girls back to their apartment where they had "numerous orgies" and topped it all off by bringing the girls to their strip club and having them perform sex acts on customers onstage. Soto is looking at two to six years in prison while her husband Rojas is expected to get eight due to a prior charge of seducing a minor. more ›

Anthony "Cousin Vinny" Agnello was shot during an attempted robbery while escorting strippers to a bachelor party in Sleepy Hollow. Agnello made a name for himself back in 2001 when he supplied strippers for teenagers as young as 15 having a party in Chappaqua. Agnello was not charged, but the parents hosting the football team's party pleaded guilty to child endangerment. Agnello was shot in the thigh Friday when two men tried to steal $100,000 worth of jewelry from him. He has already been released from the hospital. more ›

Cynthia Rodriguez finally broke her silence and decided to present her case to gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who writes, " Cynthia Rodriguez loves her man. Cynthia Rodriguez has no malice...Ask again, you mean she's saying she really still loves her womanizing husband and what comes back is, Cynthia Rodriguez is 'not out to mutilate him.'" more ›

On the day that MySpace agreed to work with 49 states to stop sexual predators from using the social networking site to find young victims, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown was announcing a disturbing 56-charge criminal complaint against a couple accused of rape, sexual abuse, and forcing two young teens into performing sexual acts at a Manhattan strip club. Julio Rojas, a stripper, is being held on $500,000 bail while his wife, Sophie Soto, also a stripper, is being held on $250,000 bail. more ›