because of a sign on the wall. But the angry guy in the reverend suit really seemed to believe in it. Every strip-club manager is in the business to have sex with the girls. But most take a more casual approach to it. They are happy to get one two three four girls a year. This guy was not willing to live and let live. He was a control freak to have sex with every girl, and to know whom they were having sex with. But it wasn’t just his demand for sex that drove girls away. It was his desolate need to be involved in everything the girls did. There are a lot of great strippers who bring a ton of business, who like to do their own thing. They are more freelancers than employees. Those are the best girls. I was at Cabaret Internationale the first day they told girls they had to come back the next day at noon for their money. Some of them said they were quitting right then. At some point I think there was also a new law, that said girls couldn't ask guys to buy drinks. I know at Gold Rush Miami the girls would ask you to buy them a glass of champagne for $15, and it was just apple juice. I think that is against the law now. There had been a problem at least since 2010, from guys who spent thousands on their credit cards at strip clubs. The next day they would tell their credit card companies the girls got them drunk and tricked them, and do a chargeback. Strip clubs installed cash machines, so the guys would pull cash and spend it. And they sold tokens, so you would use your credit card to buy the tokens, and then spend the tokens on dances or whatever. If the strip club gave you the tokens, there was no trick. Even if the tokens then got stolen. So you can't do a chargeback on the tokens. I first saw them for sale at Gold Rush which is now 7even, but I never saw anybody buy them. I guess at Stars and Dollhouse, they call them "dancer dollars." Making girls come back the next day for the money, I think was supposed to somehow protect against the chargebacks. That is how I remember it, I know they at least said credit cards. I am not really sure if a guy who is drunk Friday night until 2AM is going to do a chargeback by Saturday noon. And I am not sure how the girls would have been making money off credit cards, if they couldn't do drink sales. One thing strippers are allowed to sell, and which guys would be very likely to want to do a chargeback for, is time in the "private room." In clubs that have a private room, it is supposed to be a scam. A girl gets a customer really drunk, and leads him on that if he spends $1200 on a bottle of champagne, and $1000 for 30 minutes in the private room, he will get sex. Then he goes in there and gets nothing. The girl says "watch the hands, not allowed to do tha ." But there are enough strippers who will have sex in any dark comer of the club they can get away with, and enough strip club employees who will take $100 to look the other way, to make the "private room" interesting. I didn't know all the details at the time, so far as what money girls had to come back for the next day, and why they started doing it at Cabaret Internationale. Now seven years later I remember even less. But making girls come back the next day daylight to beg for money from a manager, is totally contrary to the free-spirited style of a stripper. The night Mulrenin died, they supposedly had no choice but to make the girls come back the next day for cash, because tips from credit-card customers using dancer dollars were higher than cash on hand. But given that I have never in my life seen a single guy use dancer dollars, I don’t think that was ordinarily the case. I think the reason they gave for making the girls come back the next day at Cabaret Internationale was credit-card chargebacks. But in reality they wanted to make the girls come back the next day to make them beg for treats like dogs. The girls who were complaining about it at Cabaret Internationale made it sound like a new policy every day, not just something that happened one day. And I don’t remember it having anything to do with dancer dollars. I think it was some other kind of credit-card purchase like drink sales. (Recent addition: A few months after the girls at Cabaret Internationale complained about having to come back the next day, I bought a dance and a drink for a new girl. A regular girl said "Where's MY dance and MY drink?" So I guess they were still letting the girls ask you to buy them drinks in 2012. Also months later, a girl called me crying because she got fired. She said some guys bought her 12 shots. When another girl came up to get drinks also, she called the other girl a skank, and said the guys don’t want you here. I wasn’t there, but I assumed it was the angry guy who fired her. That sounds like a potential chargeback scene.) II-24