14. PRIVATE ROOM - December 13, 2016 Did Dollhouse really take in $20k that night? Did Mulrenin really die on the biggest night of his life as a strip-club manager? Was one related to the other? Did Mandi have something to do with it? According to police, two customers at Dollhouse spent "upwards of $20k" on the night Mulrenin died. I challenge you to go spend a year at the Dollhouse, and report back when someone spends $20k. On a Tuesday no less. More likely Big Mike was afraid Mulrenin got found with money from selling coke at the club, and wanted to get out front with an explanation for it. I have dated at least 8 strippers, including top strippers who were feature attractions at major strip clubs in New York, Miami, and Texas. One of my friends was a strip-club bottle hostess who also made $500 a night bartending at a sports bar. Across the 10 biggest strip clubs in Dade and Broward, you hear a story of two people spending over $20,000 at the same place in one night, maybe once a year. That doesn't include cash under the table, I am talking about money that a manager would in any way be aware of or get his hands on. That includes bachelor parties at Tootsie, which is bigger than every strip club in Orlando combined. A typical bachelor party with bottle service, or an old rich guy who got really drunk, would spend $2700 that anybody knew about. Maybe $5000 on the high side. Do people spend $8,000? $10,000? Sure. It happens at a strip club with 300 dancers, across from billionaires row in Miami. And even then, the people on the receiving end have no incentive to share the story with anyone. Dollhouse is a shitty drug den on Orange Blossom Trail, the sleaziest white strip club in Orlando. There are hookers on OBT on both sides of it. The idea that some rich guys with $20k cash in their pocket, would end up for some reason at the tiny Dollhouse on a Tuesday night, and spend all that money in a way that the manager ever saw it, is not credible to me. If someone even spent $2700 cash, it would be a better night than I thought was possible in Dollhouse over an entire year. Even two groups of four guys, that each had two rounds of bottle service, two rounds of shots, two rounds of the most expensive drinks, a private dance from every girl, and an hour in the private room with the prettiest girl there, would not make it to $20k. But if someone did spend that kind of money at Dollhouse and the manager saw it, there is only one way it happened: the private room. Barbara Mellinger said the two customers who spent $20k did it all on their credit cards. They bought $20k in dancer dollars. She said they were across the street at Stars the previous night. And she said at the end of the night, Dollhouse somehow owed in excess of $40,000 dancer dollars to the girls, including some that were purchased at Stars and said "Stars" on them. And because the club only had $7k in cash at the end of the night which is far less than $40,000, they only could have paid some girls, making the other girls angry. So Mulrenin chose to not cash out any of the dancer dollars. Mellinger said Mulrenin left a note to call him before they gave girls cash for their dancer dollars next day. Because he needed to explain something. But he never got to explain it. And the next day for some reason the club chose not to give cash for all the dancer dollars. They only gave out enough cash for the first girls who showed up, and then defaulted on the rest of the dancer dollars, and screwed over the girls who had them. And somehow it was related to 1) some of the dancer dollars said Stars on them meaning they were purchased at Stars, and 2) Mulrenin was not there to explain what to do. What Mellinger said did not add up or make sense. She exaggerated the amount of dancer dollars. She said some coming from Stars created a problem when it shouldn’t have. It is not complicated to explain changing dancer dollars for money the club got from someone buying the dancer dollars on a credit card. You exchange the ones that say "Stars" at Stars if you have to. And Mellinger is plenty smart to explain it. But there was something missing. Rather than say the truth, Mellinger chose to leave it confusing and leave something out. And then simply attribute it to Mulrenin being dead and only Mulrenin could explain it. When Mulrenin got home and went up the elevator, he was holding his keys and looking at a piece of paper. A piece II-4l