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    I don't think anyone who's ever been there is totally shocked by this, since it is a total free-for-all, but I feel for the girls who were working there (well, the ones who weren't trying to sell X to undercover cops).

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    Platinum Plus closed as nuisance
    By Bill Dries
    August 27, 2005

    The city's best-known topless nightclub was padlocked Friday evening in East Memphis as police and prosecutors served its owner with court papers alleging it is a nuisance.

    Platinum Plus, 2514 Mt. Moriah, will remain closed at least until a Friday hearing before General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Larry Potter.

    Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons also said five dancers at the club were indicted by the Shelby County grand jury Thursday on 21 felony drug charges, accused of selling the drug ecstasy to undercover officers or confidential informants.

    The closing followed an undercover investigation by the prosecutor's office, Memphis police and the West Tennessee Violent Crime & Drug Task Force, which began in June.

    Several dozen dancers employed by the club and a few customers were in the business when it was closed shortly after 8 p.m. They, other club employees and the customers were allowed to leave after police checked to see if any had outstanding arrest warrants. The suspects in the drug case were not among those at the club Friday.

    "I hope this sends a very clear message that we will not tolerate businesses engaging in illegal drug traffic in this community," Gibbons told reporters on the parking lot.

    Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said the raid was "another effort ... to combat illegal activity whether it be on the street or in a public establishment."

    Platinum Plus is the 15th business closed as a nuisance by the prosecutor's office since November 2002. Two of those businesses were later closed permanently by court order. The others were allowed to reopen after agreeing to curb illegal activity.

    As police and investigators questioned employees and club owner Ralph Lunati inside, Gibbons told reporters outside the club that his office hasn't made a decision yet on whether to try to keep it closed permanently.

    "Frankly, to some degree it will depend on Mr. Lunati's attitude toward this and whether he is willing to take the necessary steps to clean up this business," Gibbons said. "These are very serious crimes. The five dancers indicted ... are looking at sentences of eight to 12 years."

    The case for deeming the club a public nuisance will also include 103 violations since January of city ordinances covering prohibited sexual and pornographic conduct as well as allegations of prostitution and promoting prostitution.

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    Default Re: Platinum Plus in Memphis Closed!

    Yet "Pure Passion" plugs away offerering more for less.

    The next time I get laid over in Memphis I look forward to revisiting PP. You've got to love a place cab drivers grudgingly go to.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward

    "I hope this sends a very clear message that we will not tolerate businesses engaging in illegal drug traffic in this community," Gibbons told reporters on the parking lot.

    Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said the raid was "another effort ... to combat illegal activity whether it be on the street or in a public establishment."

    Is it getting close to re-election time?


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    Alot of us go up there when biz is slow here...I havent been in a couple years, and am glad! A couple of the girls were actually talking about that tonight at work, and they said a couple girls up there got shot and were killed...hmmm...since the article doesnt say anything about that, I'm sure it was rumor...lets hope so....

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    No one got shot.

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    I printed this out and am going to take it to work and show all the girls who go there on a regular basis...I wonder where they got their info....These 2 go on my list of gossip queens...lol

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    Default Re: Platinum Plus in Memphis Closed!

    There was a case some months back involving a dancer at the Gold Club; not a shooting, though. Maybe that's what they were thinking of.

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    Well damn.. There goes THAT option.

    Hmph.

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    Wow. I know the infamous club well. It's the first one I ever walked into (and worked in). It's as dirty as they come but you always have a soft spot for the club that got you started..... and the Dj that turned you out, lol. Albert, old boy, you made me who I am. I know this because you made me repeat it over and over and over..... that's so hot No matter how hard, jaded, and abusive I may be, there will always be a naughty nieve little girl in me who needs a good hard Alberting. You set a presidence that's been hard to find.

    And thanx for your name, Mckenna. Liked it, used it....... used Jennae as my porn and feature name. Got more use out of your name than you had a chance to slander it yourself. if that's possible. I just liked those names. Guess I have to change it to Katrina, now. lol.....


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    Default Re: Platinum Plus in Memphis Closed!

    I remember when all the clubs were shut down at election time around '97, lol..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mckenna-N.O.
    I remember when all the clubs were shut down at election time around '97, lol..
    Ayup. I remember that, too, and they <i>all</i> stayed closed for two weeks, I think.

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    any news on platinum?
    I'M WHAT WILLIS IS TALKING ABOUT

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    No love lost for me. I worked there for exactly one night two years ago driving back from New Orleans and walked out of the place four hours into my shift. Even the manager agreed it was a dirty place when I told him why I was leaving. I kind of felt bad for him; he actually seemed nice.

    The couch dance room stank of stale pussy and most of the dancers I saw looked like they were on something. It was a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

    I wonder where all the dancers went to work instead. It also gives dancers displaced by the hurricane one last place to work.
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    It has reopened according to a girl I know who works there. She says they have had a few dancers from the Gulf show up and work, but many have not passed, and I quote, "the now-mandatory background check."

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    Hey, I hate to open this back up, but I just found it. Although i completly agree with most of these girls, I NEVER want to go back ... I am curious if they unlocked the doors? Alot of ppl I know like to go out there. They try to get me to go with them ... but ... the one night I went I worked about 2 hours, a pimp was following me around, I sold one dance and the guy generously let me keep the money because he felt sorry that I was in a club like that and not into it. I ended up calling my bf at the hotel crying me eyes out scared to death ... "please come pick me up!!!" Never again!!

    I'm just curious if they reopened?

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    Im sorry i keep making this a new thread, but one of you got to know if they are still closed. Does anyone know anything???

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    Default Re: Platinum Plus in Memphis Closed!

    Read the last post before yours. They reopened.

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    PP is agreed a dirty place, it's full of gossip and other things only people that have worked there know about.

    But I just have to say, I have pulled more money out of that joint in a weekend.. well, it's just amazing.
    It is my ' I'm desperate for a lot of cash quickly" place.

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    I just think it is funny that the judge is/was named Larry Potter.

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    Well, I guess I can give you guys some info since I work there for 3-5 nights a week, and I was there when they got raided and shut down. We were shut down for exactly one week. Business is back as usual, except girls with drug or prositution charges were not allowed back ( we had background checks down).

    I have been there for about a year and a half, I don't know when it was when you guys worked there, but I have never seen anyone having sex in there, or anyone giving a blowjob and only heard of it happening once since I have been there. (and that could have been a rumor) The girls there are mean, and they don't play. If you are going to work there you need to keep to yourself yet not let yourself be walked over. That has worked for me.

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