Detroit Strip Clubs: Father of Kwame Kilpatrick desposed in Manoogian Mansion party probe
August 31, 2010 at 5:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsFather of Kwame Kilpatrick desposed in Manoogian Mansion party probe
DETROIT, MI
(Associated Press)
The father of disgraced ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says a civil lawsuit claiming his son impeded an investigation into a stripper’s death “is a joke.”
Bernard Kilpatrick told reporters Tuesday outside attorney Norman Yatooma’s Birmingham office that he is “angry” to have been called to give a deposition in the suit.
Bernard Kilpatrick is one of dozens of potential witnesses named by Yatooma, who is representing the children of Tamara Greene. Greene was shot to death outside her home in 2003. She is rumored to have performed several months earlier at a wild party at the mayor’s official residence.
Yatooma says Kwame Kilpatrick and other city officials conspired to derail a police probe of Greene’s death.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip clubs grapple with crackdown
August 31, 2010 at 6:00 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip clubs grapple with crackdown
They launch ‘good neighbor policy’ but challenge rules
Santiago Esparza and Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –Three months ago, a controversial crackdown went into effect at city strip clubs. Police say it’s working. Bar owners say the rules hurt revenues. And critics contend the clubs have the same old problems.
Approved after much debate by the City Council, the ordinances ban lap dances and VIP rooms, force dancers to stay 6 feet from customers and on stages at least 18 inches high and require most employees of the city’s 31 clubs to buy $150 annual licenses.
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That incident — and a fatal shooting at a Starvin’ Marvin’s on Michigan Avenue in June — have critics claiming the new rules don’t go far enough. Religious leaders and many neighbors pressed the council unsuccessfully to ban alcohol at strip clubs.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Growing strip club chain stirs passions
August 31, 2010 at 6:00 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsGrowing strip club chain stirs passions
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Others say they have turned the stretch of southwest Detroit into a strip club theme park.
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Starvin Marvin’s also is in talks to buy All Stars, a west side club on Eight Mile that was padlocked this summer for a year after a 14-year-old girl danced there. Three months later, she was found by police at another topless bar, Club Onyx. A police report shows Haidar tipped off police about the dancer when she was at Onyx. Onyx’s lawyer maintains the club was set up.
This is one of the three Starvin Marvin strip clubs that sit within blocks of each other on Michigan Avenue. Club officials say they employ hundreds at these sites, plus two others on the west side and one near Hamtramck. (Todd McInturf / The Detroit News)
Marwan Haidar (Darrel Ellis / The Detroit News)
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