$300 lap dance at Boston strip club may result in sanctions

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The Boston Licensing Board could decide Thursday whether to sanction a downtown Boston strip club after a police officer discovered a dancer giving a patron a lap dance in violation of a city ordinance banning physical contact between dancers and the public in nightspots.

According to a Boston police report, Detective William Gallagher was making a routine inspection of the Glass Slipper nightspot on 22 LaGrange St. at around 1 a.m. on Oct 27. While being escorted by the manager, Gallagher went to the third floor.

There, detectives “observed a male patron lying back on the couch with a female dancer straddling his lap,'' the report states. “The male patron had both his hands wrapped around the dancer touching her buttocks.''

The manager told police the patron had paid the dancer $300 for the lap dance, which was brought to an end by the arrival of the detectives.

On Tuesday, the licensing board heard from both the nightspot and police. A manager for the nightspot told the board that the dancer has been fired, according to the Universal Hub website.

Board chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer declined to discuss what the board was told. The board will hold a public vote on the Glass Slipper's license, as well as violations involving 26 other establishments starting at 10 a.m. Thursday.

Ferrer said the potential sanctions against the club could range from a warning to suspension of the club's liquor license for a period of time.

13 comments

  • rrbill
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    13 years ago
    I'm glad to see that there is no crime in Boston, so the cops have to figure out something to do with their time other than eat donuts.
  • steve229
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    13 years ago
    $300 for a lap dance - that is criminal!
  • chimark
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    13 years ago
    crazy story... $300 for a butt grab??? also, yet another example of a stripper being an employee and not an Independent contractor, since the dancer was fired for breaking a "club" rule.
  • rickdugan
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    13 years ago
    Fucking Boston.

    The upstairs area in the Glass Slipper is a VIP section. The $300 would have been for a block of time. However, in case you think that any hanky panky might go on up there, fear not. They send a fucking goon to sit near you the entire time that you are up there.

    If the powers that be in Boston had their way, there would not be a strip club in the city limits. At present, there are only two and, for a while, there was only one. The cops have been targeting the Slipper for years and Centerfolds only opened up because they won a court battle.
  • Alucard
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    13 years ago
    I suggest Boston residents take their $$$$ ELSEWHERE!
  • adokimus3
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    13 years ago
    Providence is the best bet for us Boston folks. Too bad the cops here have nothing better to do. The air dances at Centerfolds are the worst. I figured Glass Slipper was an ok option if you're stuck in the city, but not all that much goes on there either. Definitely not anything that we should be wasting tax payers' money on.
  • apark
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    13 years ago
    Yep. Boston is horrible for strip clubs.
  • basketball
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    13 years ago
    OMG, not her bare buttocks! And only $300? What a deal.
  • JohnBuford
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    13 years ago
    Back in the day Boston was a pretty big military town and an area sprung up that catered to GI's.It became known as the "Combat Zone" (so named by Army MP's who patrolled the area and were forever getting into/breaking up brawls)It had a ton of SC's,X rated theaters/bookstores and hookers.Hi tech,R+D and medical facility money came into the area and the residents/employers didn't want to see drunks and hookers fighting, vomiting and falling down (they can go the State House,a short distance away for that.Badda boom) and slowly the "Zone" has died off."Centerfolds" and "The Glass Slipper" are the last two holdouts. RIP Combat Zone.You sure were fun.
  • gatorfan
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    13 years ago
    Cop was a fucking perv
  • kuteechaser
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    13 years ago
    Suspension of a liquor license can kill a topless club. The owner may threaten to convert to a nude club and serve juice.
  • Shamrock211
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    13 years ago
    We recently had the state inspectors poke around and check our permits. They were nice enough to remind us that nude on stage is now illegal and that our girls needed to get some latex on their nipples.

    It was nice of them not to fine us. I'm sure if they'd come in undercover we'd have been shut down in about 5 seconds.
  • spandexman
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    13 years ago
    I remember going through the infamous Combat Zone when I was 18 in 1975. What a pervert's heaven, clubs everywhere, bookstores, hookers on every corner and even live models in studios where for about $20.00 you went into a room with a Polaroid camera and three pictures. Things have sure changed and not for the better. I either go to Springfield or Albany for my fun now.
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