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Athletes and Celebrities should stay out of the strip clubs

Clackport

Washington

If I was their agent or advisor I would tell these athletes and celebrities to stay out of the strip clubs. Nothing really good comes out of that, it's gonna end up on the Internet. If you spend a lot of money/aka make it rain in there you will get criticized for spending too much money. If you don't spend a lot of money you will get labeled a cheapskate by the strippers in there, because you have a lot of money, but you're not spending enough to their liking.

Case in point Scottie Pippen. When Scottie played for the Portland Trailblazers, he would frequent quite a few of the strip clubs around here. He gained a reputation for not spending a lot of money in the strip clubs, and he got the nickname "no tipping Pippen". That nickname has followed him wherever he goes to this day. He even allegedly got kicked out of a club here for not tipping.

I've always wondered with the celebrities that go to the strip clubs often, like how are they in there. Someone like rapper Drake frequents strip clubs a lot and mentions it all the time in his raps. I don't see him as a make it rain type bringing attention to himself. He seems more of a sitting in a corner kind of guy and actually talking to these ladies. His goal is to take the hottest stripper home. The lead girl in his music video "Find Your Love" is actually a girl he met in the strip club. 10 days later he flew her out to Jamaica to do the video.

What's the most you've heard a athlete/celebrity spend in the strip club?
Rick Ross said he spent 1 million dollars at KOD in Miami on his birthday a few years back. A few of the strippers that were there that night didn't believe it.
A few years back Cam Newton allegedly spent 100K on a strip club visit. I'm all for the entertainers spending their money how they want, but that's fucking insane. He allegedly got paid 180K to play at Auburn, so hopefully the 100K he spent was part of that money :)

At the end of the day it's bad press for the athletes/celebrities regarding the strip clubs. When we think Pacman Jones we think strip clubs. The reason the Dallas Cowboys put a curfew on Dez Bryant is he was at the strip clubs late at night all the time. The Cowboys banned him from strip clubs.

If I was their agent or advisor I would tell them strip clubs is not a good idea. A big reason a lot of these athletes are broke after they're done playing is their strip club habits.