Detroit Strip Clubs: Judge orders padlock on strip club where girl danced
July 1, 2010 at 8:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: July 01. 2010 6:02PM
Judge orders padlock on strip club where 14-year-old danced
Christine MacDonald and Leonard N. Fleming / The Detroit News
Detroit — A judge today deemed the strip club All Stars a nuisance and ordered it padlocked for a year, after finding the bar never checked the identification of a 14-year-old performer.
The girl’s mom discovered her dancing at the topless bar on Eight Mile near Schaefer in April under the stage name “Fantasy” and police charged a club manager with felony child sexual abusive activity.
That was only about a month after the club’s owners had promised to clean up their act by entering into a “consent agreement” with prosecutors for a number of violations dating back to 2003.
“You would think the owners of the business would have been on their Ps and Qs,” Wayne County Circuit Judge Virgil Smith said. “Exactly the opposite took place.”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit’s new factory of dreams
July 1, 2010 at 8:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsOn the other hand, just down the road, stands an icon of hope, a gargantuan factory complex, the Russell Industrial Center. It has the same lofty pedigree as the Packard plant (both were designed by Albert Kahn) and a similar vintage (it was built in the 1920s). As the former headquarters of Murray Corp., which made bodies for Ford in the glory days, this plant, too, is inhabited by ghosts. Here, however, the ghosts share quarters with some spirited company: a menagerie of glass blowers, cabinetmakers, architects, seamstresses, a sneaker designer, and three women who teach pole dancing, among others — 160 small-business tenants in all, most of them operating on the frontlines of Detroit’s burgeoning creative economy.
Their landlord is Dennis Kefallinos, 55, who immigrated from the Greek island of Zakynthos when he was 15, found a job as a dishwasher, and in all these years has never once stopped working long enough to learn how to read and write properly. Today, while he’s best known around town as the owner of Niki’s Pizza and a place called Bouzouki (which is, gulp, a strip club), he’s one of the city’s biggest real estate barons.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Judge orders padlock on strip club where 14-year-old danced
July 1, 2010 at 2:13 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: July 01. 2010 1:18PM
Judge orders padlock on strip club where 14-year-old danced
Christine MacDonald and Leonard N. Fleming / The Detroit News
Detroit — A judge today deemed the strip club All Stars a nuisance and ordered it padlocked for a year, after finding the bar never checked the identification of a 14-year-old performer.
The girl’s mom discovered her dancing at the topless bar on Eight Mile near Schaefer in April under the stage name “Fantasy” and police charged a club manager with felony child sexual abusive activity.
That was only about a month after the club’s owners had promised to clean up their act by entering into a “consent agreement” with prosecutors for a number of violations dating back to 2003.
“You would think the owners of the business would have been on their Ps and Qs,” Wayne County Circuit Judge Virgil Smith said. “Exactly the opposite took place.”
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