Cheetah's

Cheetah's
This article is about a strip club. For other uses, please see Cheetah (disambiguation).

Cheetah's Topless Club is a "gentleman's club" or topless bar located in San Diego, and Las Vegas, best known for being featured in the 1995 movie Showgirls, and also for having been owned by Mike Galardi, a nightclub owner who was investigated by the FBI with a controversial invocation of the Patriot Act. The Cheetah's club in San Diego is a full nude club, no alcohol is served. It has achieved notoriety for having been frequented by some of the September 11th hijackers.

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Las Vegas Club

The Las Vegas club was founded in 1991 by Michael Galardi, and employs about 150 dancers. In 2004, Galardi admitted in a San Diego federal trial that he bribed Las Vegas officials in an attempt to influence strip club regulations. In a Las Vegas federal court, he stated that he paid between $200,000 and $400,000.[1]

The club is managed by Charles Wright, a retired professional wrestler best known for his stints in World Wrestling Entertainment as a voodoo witch doctor ("Papa Shango") and as a pimp ("The Godfather"), and was also part of the Nation of Domination under the name Kama Mustafa.

See also

  • Planning of the September 11, 2001 attacks
  • Showgirls, 1995 film shot on location
  • Operation G-Sting - About the FBI's "Operation G-Sting"
  • Charles Wright - General manager of the club
  • Missy Monroe, porn actress who got her start at Cheetah's
  • Brent Jordan, bouncer from 1991-2003 who wrote a book, Stripped, about working at the club

References

Notes

  1. ^ Review Journal

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