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Penthouse club in Detroit is finished

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WXYZ TV in Detroit is reporting the city is going to shut the PHC down for at least a year due to ongoing prostitution in the club. I know for a fact that Alan the owner has had his clubs quietly on the market for sale awhile now. Things are changing rapidly, must be election season again! Get ready for more OTC action guys, get your ATF’s #’s asap!

9 comments

  • san_jose_guy
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    5 years ago
    Yipes, any news links about this?

    SJG
  • chessmaster
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    5 years ago
    You would think in Detroit they have bigger issues.
  • wiffle shwaffle
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    5 years ago
    Actually, the judge rules on it next week. Nothing is definite yet.
  • san_jose_guy
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    5 years ago
    ^^^^ Thanks Waffle for that update.

    And notice, closing a club for a year is not a criminal proceeding. It is a civil proceeding, requiring a much lower standard of proof. And notice that it will be a bench hearing, not a jury trial. Owners should be entitled to a jury trial over this.

    Jim and Artie Mitchell dealt with the same stuff over MBOT, getting some relief from Rose Bird, CA Supreme Court Chief Justice.

    SJG
  • MackTruck
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    5 years ago
    Smash that line button!
  • AnonymousJim
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    5 years ago
    This may be as much a mercy killing as anything. Word has it the place has been bleeding dancers.

    We have the memories. And Flight Club.
  • mark94
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    5 years ago
    I saw the cable documentary about Marcowicz. Creepy. So was his talent scout.
  • wiffle shwaffle
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    5 years ago
    "Detroit strip club facing possible closure after accusations of soliciting prostitution"

    https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit…
  • san_jose_guy
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    5 years ago
    "According to the city of Detroit Law Dept., investigators from the Detroit Police Vice unit spent time inside Penthouse club, gathering evidence & discovering rules were being broken."

    Very difficult for a cop to gather direct evidence of prostitution. It is rather these other local ordinances which are far more harmful. And it is also these local ordinances which could likely be found to be unconstitutional.

    https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv…

    During the 60's and 70's all sorts of status crime and unsupportable laws were taken down by our highest courts.

    SJG
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