I Was the Highest-Paid Dancer at America's No. 1 Strip Club | I Was There
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Ай бұрынIn the 1990s, The Gold Club in Atlanta was the place to be. A mix of Vegas meets Studio 54, The Gold Club provided its guests with bottle service and a plethora of beautiful, fully nude women to look at. In this episode of I Was There, Jacklyn “Diva” Cook recounts her wild and crazy time working at The Gold Club during its heyday in the 90s, making upwards of $5k an hour, until it all came to a screeching halt when the club was raided by the FBI.
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@smokeysolis120 Ай бұрын
This would make a bad ass movie
@mariogilbert4260 Ай бұрын
Netflix and Hulu just entered the chat😂😂
@rigelb9025 Ай бұрын
It sure would make an ass movie.
@domoniquesmith88 Ай бұрын
Would be! Much better than another remake
@chrisderidder4087 Ай бұрын
There already is. Called showgirls
@wwomannc4834 Ай бұрын
Is this who The Hustlers movie was about?
@st8867 Ай бұрын
Shout out to Steve for being a proper leader and saving his employees from hardship. Not many people would do that!! Mark of a man with integrity even though his business was a bit shady.
@thepragmatist Ай бұрын
I thought the same thing.
@jessebrown1400 Ай бұрын
Steve is the GOAT
@rigelb9025 Ай бұрын
@@jessebrown1400 The Scape Goat.
@robdiesel1579 Ай бұрын
Steve Kaplan was a real one.
@TheLarryAndy Ай бұрын
@@rigelb9025😂
@nagone11 Ай бұрын
Steve was a real one and a smart one..paid their fees, no one ratted or tried to hurt him to save their own tails, closed it up and walked off in to the sunset. He still had mega millions. Hey...give it up for Jackie, she stood 10 toes down for Steve and crew.
@PanchTv Ай бұрын
Yea that is actually wild, he took it all and paid everything
@JM-vg6hu Ай бұрын
Thats true he knew what he was doing! Straight Boss
@Christian-xc5pv Ай бұрын
Just strange they had charges on 17 women looking over 100 years, but Steve pleads and gets 13 months? How does this make sense? Did he give the cure up for cancer?
@nagone11 Ай бұрын
@@Christian-xc5pv They wanted the girls to give him up, to plea for less years as they gave up info on him...Steve was a smart guy.
@nagone11 Ай бұрын
@@Christian-xc5pv None of them gave up any information on Steve and he ended up closing anyway so they got what they wanted..
@lowkeysoundsystem6174 Ай бұрын
200+ girls on the floor? That's insane. 🤯
@VincentCosta Ай бұрын
That’s bigger then my high school class😂
@lowkeysoundsystem6174 Ай бұрын
@@VincentCosta Could you imagine the drama? 🤔😬
@VincentCosta Ай бұрын
@@lowkeysoundsystem6174 the Estrogen Wars must have been lethal.
@digit975 Ай бұрын
Sapphire in Vegas is like that on a Friday night and honestly it’s a little overwhelming lol. Too much
@marisajohnson1170 Ай бұрын
Rhino in Vegas will have over 400. You should see the locker room. They would run out of lockers and there would be a mountain of stripper bags right where we would check in
@noir_sirena Ай бұрын
This needs to be a MOVIE!!! The Gold Club is iconic
@ivareskesner2019 Ай бұрын
Iconic representation of what happens when fathers don't positively contribute to their daughters' lives.
@WasabiTurtle Ай бұрын
Yes let’s fetishize broken women 🙄
@little.zayzay Ай бұрын
That would be a awesome movie ❤❤
@houseplant1016 Ай бұрын
@@ivareskesner2019I see smart women earning money from desperate men whose mothers AND fathers didn't raise them right...
@Dafireking2425 Ай бұрын
The Movie Must be done !
@surenderyadav7738 Ай бұрын
Netflix needs to make a doc on this
@savage.4.24 Ай бұрын
Ugh screw Netflix where's a youtuber who does it right?!
@iki12737 Ай бұрын
not really
@jjr1728 Ай бұрын
D E G E N E R A T E D O C U M E N T A R Y
@lilsand. Ай бұрын
Good on her, she looks back at her experiences as a time well enjoyed. Love to see it! Steve is an absolute G, seriously.
@AK-fo8pm Ай бұрын
You said it best. I can't name any person (man or women) then or since that played it as straight as Steve, absolute G couldn't be anymore right on.
@Christian-xc5pv Ай бұрын
@@AK-fo8pm Steve is still rich, lol she lost her kids college funds. Great guy!
@charlie7mason 17 күн бұрын
@@Christian-xc5pv Well, if he did end up helping her out in some way, I'm not sure either of them would go around announcing that, would they? The help doesn't even have to be directly financial. And she could have come out way ahead now, but the initial memory of the pain caused during the loss wouldn't be forgotten, would it? We just don't know.
@HostileGingerATL Ай бұрын
Steves a 🐐 No business owner in America today would even consider taking on the court costs for all his employees.
@charlie7mason 17 күн бұрын
And that's all the 'legitimate' businessmen too. All hat and no cattle.
@glenngraver 4 күн бұрын
He was guilty of money laundering of course he paid to keep them quite and he didn't take the plea deal because he was a nice guy he knew if he didn't he was going away for a lot longer
@mdoyleproductions9358 Ай бұрын
Steve did what no celebrities that frequented his club would never do. Nice work, pal. Hard thing to do.
@LivinginGPP Ай бұрын
She seems so down to earth and normal for a dancer who partied. Good for her. the experience was worth it.
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Thank you my life was truly blessed and amazing back then!!! ❤
@rupert6001 Ай бұрын
We are not watching the same thing …. You obviously have an extra chromosome
@abcdefghijklmno66109 Ай бұрын
Back in those days most dancers were down to earth. It was a job that gave experiences. Not like today where girls just want online attention while treating it like a lifestyle. Lifestyle happens outside of work. Work experiences vs private experiences.
@deadpool-wp1eq Ай бұрын
She's out of her prime
@NicOoG-im2yg Ай бұрын
That's cuz she's a Midwest gal at heart my city #414 miltown Milwaukee
@siofrarafferty3821 Ай бұрын
I like how she reflects on her experience with no regrets. Probably in part that is due to Steve, I can’t say I’ve known many bosses like that!
@xXxeuthanasiaxXx 2 күн бұрын
Yeah and her honesty is really funny about everything like her ego and how she felt about guys spending money on her 😂 she really seems fun I can see why she made all that money dancing
@fayeh4412 Ай бұрын
Steve's THE MAN! Much respect, he really loved and cared about his crew.
@JackieDaytona1776 Ай бұрын
He admitted to racketeering, he was working with the mob, he works at Penn station now...idk ive met cooler men lol
@JesusChristHeals17 Ай бұрын
He did it so they wouldnt rat him out
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
@jackiedaytona1776 Steve is a self made millionaire who has no ties with the Mob and he sold all of his stores at penn station!! He is one of the kindest most generous people you would ever have the pleasure of meeting!! And the other comment, we were a family and that is why he covered all our lawyers fees.
@axelarroyo3286 Ай бұрын
Steve had businesses in Penn for decades. In fact his father had them back when they were with Bobby.
@Heyasianmami Ай бұрын
Shout out to Steve for being a real one
@Coco-chrispy Ай бұрын
Hell yeahhh
@nagone11 Ай бұрын
A true stand up guy!
@youtubegarbage7876 Ай бұрын
A real criminal? Like the rest of them? Yeah... woot. woot.
@reggaefan2700 6 күн бұрын
How about Spearmint Rhino in Vegas?
@gustywind-de7xb Ай бұрын
The fact that we get free videos from VICE on KZfaq is priceless ... Keeping education and knowledge alive. 👍👍👍
@maximiIiaan Ай бұрын
how are they stil making videos though I thought they shut everything down
@Lemmholddat Ай бұрын
They went bankrupt
@SonoftheWars 8 күн бұрын
If this is what you call education I understand why this nation is full of idiots.
@zoomba31 Ай бұрын
working as 'personal' security there from 1997-1999 i can tell you it was a wild place!
@jadsmvs8651 Ай бұрын
Taking cuts from the girls tips to walk them to their car
@suhanaahmed4960 Ай бұрын
wow! you must have some stories, im jealous
@omidMPG Ай бұрын
We need stories pls
@Christian-xc5pv Ай бұрын
and im steve!
@zoomba31 Ай бұрын
@@Christian-xc5pv that’s fine, i know the truth and was there. i have no reason to lie. it’s not like i told my name and stories
@sh0t0kan Ай бұрын
The 80's and the 90's was an amazing time to be alive.
@ANRI313 Ай бұрын
And 00s sometimes I wish I were in those times
@joanyraquel 28 күн бұрын
We gained so much at the expense of losing so much....
@SexAndCandyHair92 11 күн бұрын
Before social media you actually needed to leave your house to experience this. Now you have social media and easy access to porn, OnlyFans, etc. That's why strip clubs are not around as much as they used to be.
@theylied1776 Ай бұрын
What literally blew up the strip club industry in Atlanta was Motley Crue. When they mentioned tattletales, everyone had to go there. And the Gold Club is only one mile from tattletales. The gold club was a very high-end strip club. I knew several lawyers and real estate developers that I worked with that used to go there all the time.
@jamesmancusi6747 Ай бұрын
I used to live w/a girl from Tattletales. - What a great time to live! We would go to the Gold Club when Tyson was fighting on PPV.
@Hansen710 Ай бұрын
high end strip club 😂 are the drugs better ????
@theylied1776 Ай бұрын
@@Hansen710 I don't know, I never went there.
@inexperiencedladywithagun7851 Ай бұрын
Wasn't it also Howard Stern talking about Scores stripvlub in NYC? on the air?
@theylied1776 Ай бұрын
@@inexperiencedladywithagun7851 Howard Stern wasn't on the Radio in Atlanta back then. In the South, we saw him as a New York DJ. He really didn't have any impact here.
@DoorsToHideBehind156 Ай бұрын
Wow, hearing this makes it seem so glamorous, so exciting and fun, and the fact that she was stated as the number one girl by the club owner, made 6 figures a year, upwards of 400k a year is a very high paying job. I don't care what anyone says, that's a damn good income where you can build any type of life you want especially in the 90s that kind of money was unheard of. Lucky lucky girl. She worked hard for it and it's commendable. Good for her.
@olyjfitness Ай бұрын
She was probably involved with money laundering as they all were . Why would they be arrested for just dancing and earning money .
@mochadoes Ай бұрын
@@olyjfitness because they want to know if she paid her taxes properly on it etc. Uncle Sam wants his piece, and if they think you are hiding a penny that you didn't tell them about they will come after you on some bogus charges.
@flowerjpotter1629 Ай бұрын
Acting out bjs with a bottle for $$$. It's not on everyone's bucket list.
@maryperry6573 Ай бұрын
@@flowerjpotter1629right?! not everyone has morals lol people will sell their souls for a lot less
@BreezybriefswithBrooke Ай бұрын
It’s not like this anymore! Now you have to be a prostitute to make money in the industry , clubs are adding hot tubs, or limos that take you off the property to prostitute . The whole industry took a nose dive in 2020. Since Covid it’s never recovered. Clubs have stepped away from theatrical performing, and implemented prostitution. Drug use is rampant more than ever.. and this is coming from a feature, a 15 year veteran of clubs , I’ve been everywhere. California to Florida. They are all trash nowadays 💯 Unless you wanna sell Ass 💁🏼♀️ I would advise against that😂
@ThomasCamann Ай бұрын
I was a bartender there from ‘98-2001….to work there was indescribable…the $$ for 4 days a week @ 120k+ a year … I need a Time Machine and do that again ASAP.
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Hey honey how are you doing?
@ThomasCamann Ай бұрын
@@jackiecook637 hey there... feeling awfully nostalgic for the way things were!! Atlanta has changed, but still the same in some ways.. but NEVER like it was. I love that you're in Reno. Used to live in Tahoe myself in early 90's... Thank you for bringing back such good memories and keeping the mystique of The Gold Club alive - so to speak. Such an iconic place with ICONIC people - like you.
@jackiecook637 18 күн бұрын
Most definitely gotta school these haters!! Glad you are doing well love you always!
@selmahare 5 күн бұрын
Wow the 90s were crazy, it truly was the era of milk and honey. People across the board were making so much money then. In Europe life was so much better and easier as well, again across the board people were getting paid a lot of money, property was reasonably priced so everybody was buying houses... we had it great and didn't know. I was a teen then and had so many plans for myself. My generation now is fucked. Never thought that at 43 I still wouldn't be able to buy a house, cause it was the easiest most affordable thing to do while I was growing up. You'd get a huge ass house in the countryside for 20 K euros where I'm from, back then. Now that doesn't even cover a bank loan deposit.
@hydraflora1342 Ай бұрын
Using disco music in the background to describe a club from the mid 90's is really throwing me off.
@playlistpro Ай бұрын
Yes, a great hint this video, and increasingly Vice as a whole, is dumb
@zephyrleapold6796 Ай бұрын
Exactly, I'm getting all mixed up
@TheMagnificentNGin Ай бұрын
90s experienced a big 70s revival, maybe that’s why? She referred to the club being like studio 54
@lilsand. Ай бұрын
@@playlistpro idk she said it was a mix of vegas and studio 54, maybe thats why they chose to use disco in the background, because thats what they were playing? I'm not sure tbh.
@playlistpro Ай бұрын
@@TheMagnificentNGin Fair enough, let's remove music from the equation. There's nothing about this video or the gold club that is remarkable. Everything the main woman is saying applies to giant strip clubs across the country at this time be it Miami, New York, Vegas, or L.A. There are certainly more interesting and/or controversial stories involved with strip clubs than those being spouted by this over the hill woman.
@thzzzt Ай бұрын
It is amazing (and she mentions it near the end) how she somehow transitioned out of that life apparently sane and whole.
@rigelb9025 Ай бұрын
I wonder what else she transitioned out of.
@JMSxoxo Ай бұрын
These comments are super judgemental and stereotypical
@rigelb9025 Ай бұрын
@@JMSxoxo So is yours.
@JMSxoxo Ай бұрын
@@rigelb9025 have you ever heard of the quote “treat the janitor with the same respect as you would a ceo” or are you just one of those chronically online people who like to leave hate comments for no reason other than to feel better about yourself lol
@rigelb9025 Ай бұрын
@@JMSxoxo First of all, I fail to see the 'hate' in my reply. I was seriously pondering that question, 'cause you never know these days. And yes, I highly value respect, and I know it's often hard to get here on YT, which is largely due to the impersonal 'chat' format. There's a lot of snarky remarks that get thrown around, and sometimes I participate in it, but it is seldom my intention to insult or offend anyone, unless there's a really valid reason for doing so.
@jeffmedina43 Ай бұрын
I partied at the Gold Club when I worked at the Olympics in 1996. The place was real decent as far as I could see. But you never know what could happen behind the scenes. All I can say is that the place seemed very upscale to me
@Sully4Real Ай бұрын
The Gold Club was the very best gentleman’s club period. Clean, private, and they had the very best looking ladies in the AtL by far!! Steve is real one for handling it the way he did and kept his employees records clean! I salute you Steve! You are the man
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
I find it very typical of society to always spew negativity and hate towards people that they don’t actually know anything about! I am comfortable in my skin and I take pride in that fact I didn’t transform myself with Botox, fillers, bbl’s, plastic surgery and tons of makeup that changes what you actually look like! I find it quite funny reading all of the comments. People are so quick to judge and body shame!! I think it’s jealousy because it’s something that you couldn’t do, beauty is only skin deep!! I have moved in circles that most people wish they could. I am sending love and light to all of the negativity on this thread because you definitely need it!!! Blessings everyone get out there and live your best life and don’t let the haters ruin your day keep shining!!! I appreciate all the positive comments!!! You get it!!
@Habsforthewin Ай бұрын
Jackie please know that jealousy and insecurity run rampant in KZfaq comment sections. It’s a breeding ground for hate and vitriol. Most people only dream of the type of life you lived girl!
@JMSxoxo Ай бұрын
Youre beautiful girl
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Thank you, I laugh at the keyboard bullies!!
@MrClaracamila Ай бұрын
You are amazing
@Jenny_420 Ай бұрын
I'm so happy you made it out of this with a clean record and can say you've had a life well lived ♥️
@gingerriviera3654 Ай бұрын
What a really pleasant person I enjoyed her story telling style and calm voice.
@tf8187 Ай бұрын
I wish I was of legal age in the 90s probably my favourite era. Just love it. A great time before all the crazy technology and social media.
@saynotohookups Ай бұрын
The nineties was my favorite time too. I was a stripper during that time in the Niagara Region of Canada. I made decent money before the lap dancing laws became legal and it changed for the worse for me. It brought prostitution into the clubs and I wasn't down with that.
@ANRI313 Ай бұрын
@@saynotohookupsEveryone who was grown ir teens in the 90s seemed to have so much fun im a teen now and it’s extremely boring 😂
@ThatSoonerGuy 8 күн бұрын
I miss the 90’s like no other! Truly a great period in time. From the clothes, to music, to people getting along, it was all so much better than now. Everything has gone down hill since then. Can’t get away with anything anymore lol cameras at every turn and people in your business for every little thing! Still had decency towards others. No privacy whatsoever anymore. Technology has changed everything and it isn’t all for the better. Miss the days of analog! Never know how good you have it until it’s gone but at least we have the great memories, I suppose.
@darksat6 6 күн бұрын
100%!! Hey, at least we weren't born now...
@theblondeone7771 Ай бұрын
This is bringing me such nostalgia for my many good times in the industry. I wish the industry was still held in these standards today. It’s a shame.
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Facts!!!
@erikaarnold4780 Ай бұрын
I always feel like I was born 10 years too late for all the fun stuff. 😂
@chasingsunsets87 Ай бұрын
It's still can happen. People just don't want to pay. Blame internet porn
@gregcrowder6494 22 күн бұрын
Those days in the ATL were nuts ! I was a dancer at the Coronet Club back then and spent many a Sunday night at the Gold Club , my roomate was a promoter for the Gold Club as well
@lucystar9001 Ай бұрын
Wow she is still so stunning, smart and well spoken. Great attitude given the crap she went through. Hope it all panbned out for her.
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Thank you ❤
@selenagrinage5631 Ай бұрын
"OMG THE CLUB IS GETTING ROBBED"😂
@Coco-chrispy Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@jbug308 Ай бұрын
In actuality it was. The Feds can take whatever they want if you are deemed a problem.
@MegaPedro1975 Ай бұрын
Don’t forget all the cocaine!
@stabaholic187 Ай бұрын
Hell ya !!
@nagone11 Ай бұрын
The yey-yo was flowin'..
@faiyaazgani1605 Ай бұрын
Definitely cocaine involved
@713Clayboy Ай бұрын
The ecstasy at Gold Club was free. Just ask a girl and within a couple of minutes she’d feed you one.
@jackiecook637 18 күн бұрын
I didn’t like cocaine
@TKE4Life Ай бұрын
I was there often in 2000 and 2001, those nights really were special…. honeslty Atlanta nightlife period was the best in the county until about 2006….
@syntheticchinchilla9971 Ай бұрын
Buckhead area used to be wild....tons of clubs in a two block area, rappers and athletes flexing their 200k rides, famous people everywhere. It was surreal.
@TKE4Life Ай бұрын
@@syntheticchinchilla9971 I worked at Jack Rabbit for years, I tell stories all the time and no one believes me….
@Habsforthewin Ай бұрын
Atlanta was tops for sure. Miami took over starting in 2007
@Iykyk177 Ай бұрын
Until the greedy land developers wanted the property in Buckhead! That’s when the shootings started and it’s kinda funny how they are all still unsolved to this day 🤔 Balfour Beatty, look them up and you will understand! How is the owner of a real estate empire the same guy who started F48?? Get it yet??
@MrAirblown2009 25 күн бұрын
I remember having my most fun during that decade. Half the 80's as well. I'm a child of the 70's and 80's. I can certainly tell you, the 90's were just like this video everywhere. You could get away with tons more than you ever think about today. I was a lead singer in different metal bands around the North Texas/ Dallas area. My first band I played bass in I was 15. 1985. We were balls to the wall then and every band since then, when every practice turned into a party with lots of beer, chicks, and great music, whatever else, lots of drama. Lots of us didn't survive cleaning up, becoming parents and maturing. Seemed like after Sept. 11th 2001. Party was over. Officially.
@aud9851 Ай бұрын
“186k- that was a lot of money for me.” 5:34 Me: 😳 this had to be explained?
@theblondeone7771 Ай бұрын
And that was in 1997! Imagine how much that is today. It would never happen these days but imagine…
@theblondeone7771 Ай бұрын
That’s $359,740 in 2024 and she roughly made that in her third year there. The $373,000 she said she made her third year is ~$698k today. Pure INSANITY.
@DoorsToHideBehind156 Ай бұрын
I know I was floored when I heard that. I can't believe she lost all of her money?! I need to know more! @@theblondeone7771
@YkWirelessIPhoneRepair1 Ай бұрын
That’s a drop in a bucket to the only fan artist. 😂
@wildewildestrawberries Ай бұрын
@theblondeone7771 there must be dancers making that kind of money today. Even then she was one of the few that did. Same holds true today.
@madelynrowe Ай бұрын
Love this video. She is an amazing speaker too
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Thank you
@cynthiaisako Ай бұрын
@@jackiecook637Wish you the best !
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
I’m doing well these days I am a happy grandmother and I would do it all over again because it made me humble and I am grateful to have had that experience!!
@de341f6 Ай бұрын
@@jackiecook637 I'm glad you ended up having a family
@Dcalderon1901 Ай бұрын
Wait r u the reeal one?@@jackiecook637
@Atem_S. Ай бұрын
The parties must've been wild in there!!
@chuckbonanni9457 Ай бұрын
I danced for years, and I SWEAR we dancers have the best stories in the world.
@tommythetrain4288 Ай бұрын
Ok
@nekocindy551 Ай бұрын
Thank you Vice, have enjoyed you're channel since way back when in 2015 to today. Never thought there was a decline, sorry people don't like to look at reality.
@cynthiaisako Ай бұрын
Agreed
@user-ik8ok9qh2u 28 күн бұрын
The world was better before the internet.
@barcelonachair6487 2 күн бұрын
It really was.
@Feliciations Күн бұрын
100%.
@Claudia-ci4ci Ай бұрын
The 90s were iconic
@leo959 Ай бұрын
She is 44 years old and aged beautifully
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
I’m actually 55 but thank you for the compliment ❤
@SnakeGriffins Ай бұрын
@@jackiecook637 dod you talk to the king? I’m from Sweden 🇸🇪 🤗
@nataliaalfonso2662 Ай бұрын
Obviously not as that would have made her a teen in the 90s
@EDCReviewz Ай бұрын
Still looks like she's in her 40's! Looks great for partying hard for a bit!
@666oddess Ай бұрын
@@jackiecook637🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@c.r.5106 Ай бұрын
"Dated" Dennis Rodman lol...bless her heart as they say down south
@mikeFolco Ай бұрын
Imagine thinking this girl is a naive, dumb girl lol. You are the one who needs blessings.
@bennyshakur97 Ай бұрын
@Bdragon50 Ай бұрын
"Got plowed by Rodman" had to be edited into "dated".
@user-tm5em4vu7u Ай бұрын
😂 she was his escort. 😂 they are “dates.” 😂
@seep7397 Ай бұрын
"He" dated Rodman 🤗
@silentmozart Ай бұрын
Somebody make a documentary or a show out of this omg
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
Working on it! 😊
@onespeed414 Ай бұрын
💪
@silentmozart Ай бұрын
@@jackiecook637 seriously? omg fill me in
@BrVi_7 Ай бұрын
She wasnt even that great looking but her charisma is through the roof which is the thing
@ckgun1 Ай бұрын
sounds to me like the state wanted the gold club and did everything they could to tear it down.
@JMSxoxo Ай бұрын
Yup. Too much money in a private business they couldnt control
@billhicks8 Ай бұрын
@@JMSxoxooh no poor oppressed businesses
@mariec3527 Ай бұрын
Exactly!
@kyndracrump Ай бұрын
Some of it has to be true though. Because there wouldn't be a reason for them to indict them on all of that, to the point where he had to plead guilty
@DoorsToHideBehind156 Ай бұрын
Wow, hearing this makes it seem so glamorous, so exciting and fun, and the fact that she was stated as the number one girl by the club owner, made 6 figures a year, upwards of 400k a year is a very high paying job. I don't care what anyone says, that's a damn good income where you can build any type of life you want especially in the 90s that kind of money was unheard of. Lucky lucky girl. She worked hard for it and it's commendable. Good for her. Wow, this is an insane story, the fact Steve paid for all 17 of their lawyer fees, that man had a lot of money and used it to protect his people. Even if they had money of their own he paid for them because they worked for him. He paid 5 million, did 13 months in prison so that they could walk is truly commendable. Why did she lose her 1.2 million net worth? Is that what they took because of her charges? I don't get why she couldn't keep her own money. I want a 2 hour documentary on this whole thing. I'm so interested.
@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 Ай бұрын
Lady, everyone dated Dennis Rodman in the 90s. My Korean nail lady & my 70 yr old next door neighbor with all the cats dated him.
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
And your point!!
@jestra6946 Ай бұрын
Not you from the jelousy can be smelled through your comment,
@kyndracrump Ай бұрын
I wonder what that would've been like to date Dennis.
@jackiecook637 18 күн бұрын
Wonderful he is kind, sweet, considerate and very caring!
@Westchesterlad Ай бұрын
John Stockton rolling up to the Gold Club in a tucked in shirt and new balances 😂
@aeginamonroe Ай бұрын
I'm jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I worked at Studio54 " Century Lounge" in LAX. I miss my club.
@izzymmm Ай бұрын
What a legend Steve is. Thanks bro. Men like that are diamonds.
@marissac713 Ай бұрын
When she said the industry was so popular at the time like second to coca cola, I get what she means. I remember as a kid in the 90s , it was on TV like almost every day. Get home from school, turn on the TV and it's on Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, a lot of the talk shows except for Oprah featured strippers. And they'd be in sparkly bikinis and perform. We were little kids watching it on regular network tv channels and our parents would've never guessed that nbc or any big network was showing that. You can find so many of those clips from those shows here on KZfaq.
@kpstl26 Ай бұрын
Second to Coca Cola as far as a large industry that's employing many and generating tons of money, in Atlanta. Coca Cola headquarters are in Atlanta.
@JMSxoxo Ай бұрын
Back when entertainment was big! Everything is so oversaturated and nothing is special anymore
@bodyboardrep Ай бұрын
Something tells me she might be playing-up her position as “number one dancer in the US” given she’s a solid 3 in every photo from the club 😂
@jackiecook637 18 күн бұрын
Say what you want but I was and still am a solid 20 because they don’t make them like me anymore!!
@EpicHotCheese Ай бұрын
I’m ready for a Netflix series.
@catgarza4947 Ай бұрын
I miss the 90's...
@desireedecerio7790 Ай бұрын
So do I...
@angelarios2931 Ай бұрын
Nostalgia ❤
@josephmalecki Ай бұрын
Everyday 😅
@lovelyscorp79 Ай бұрын
I don't.
@josephmalecki Ай бұрын
@@lovelyscorp79 u like things better today? Were more secure after 911, that's 4 sure
@MOODMENDR Ай бұрын
Loved this. Thank you!
@valeriegroccia4968 Ай бұрын
THIS NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE
@bcool9104 Ай бұрын
Loved the Gold Club! Went a few times whenever I went down to Alabama or Georgia. My father took me there after I graduated from basic training, as he had gone there when he was in Atlanta on business. Went one time with my buddy and they gave us FREE dances! Of course we ended up buying more! Just a great and fun place with beautiful women and classy.
@plaguedbysociety Ай бұрын
that was a great docu, thanks
@darksat6 6 күн бұрын
What a great storyteller she is! Glad to see she seems to have left that life unscathed and seems to be a healthy and happy person. I would watch her podcast
@delaney2112 Ай бұрын
This was an awesome watch. Loved learning about Diva and The Gold Club!!!!
@ScottKlair Ай бұрын
absolutely solid of kaplan-ain’t many folks that would stand strong and cover the tab for 17 people against the feds. and then, to make sure nobody was convicted in the plea other than him. damn. also have to say that she dropped a jewel at the end, two actually, when she speaks on how she adjusted to such a drastic change of circumstances (change the way you live) and how she viewed her past (lucky to have lived it and grateful for the experience). i moved to atlanta in ‘96, turned 21 in ‘97 (pretty sure it went highlander, cheetah, tattletails, backstreet)-and by virtue of my job-was a gold club regular in the VIP semi-private mezzanine seats across from all the gold rooms. i went every night for about a year (except sundays when everyone went to the pony cuz all the other bars were closed). i was on someone else’s tab and the youngster of the group so i just drank free drinks and hit on the cocktail waitress (hey chasity) whom i later got a bartending job for, and had a good time.
@Mines22 Ай бұрын
I admit I enjoyed your dance moments back in the day
@detail1090 Ай бұрын
This was a great story! VICE KEEP THIS GOING AND LETS GET YOU BACK TO WHERE YOU WERE!!!
@marinademina4466 12 күн бұрын
Diva you are true inspiration , thanks for sharing your story
@AlejandroDuh Ай бұрын
As soon as you mention dating Dennis Rodman I burst out laughing. Like damn who hasn’t he dated, and was he dating multiple woman at a time? I have so many questions.
@roachqueen1973 Ай бұрын
Oh wow. He paid all their lawyer fees. What a mensch. Heart of gold.
@cheliospanama9786 Күн бұрын
Great Video! Thank you 🔥👏💪🫶
@LorienzoDeGarcia Ай бұрын
D'aww. It's heartwarming to know that they looked out for each other.
@sheltdog8463 Ай бұрын
Absolutely 100% true. Definitely was the best club in Atlanta. Spent many of weekends enjoying all the beautiful ladies and not once had a bad time there. A first class club for sure!
@schlageschlage Ай бұрын
What a story! Amazing 💃 ❤
@HausOfAdonis Ай бұрын
Hmmm what about Magic City? When did they start? Hahaha I love the disdain in her voice when the club got shut down “by the FEDS” lolol 😂
@Prikryl70 Ай бұрын
She is a great interviewee. Editor's dream
@nunisnowden4875 Ай бұрын
this was so cool, she's a great story-teller!
@shaneintegra Ай бұрын
Steve was a true Badass. No matter what illegal activity he was doing... it doesnt even come close to what illegal stuff the government does, politicians, ect.
@stereothrilla8374 Ай бұрын
I remember those days in ATL. I was a DJ there in the heyday. It was always crazy! I have too many stories that I don’t even tell anymore because they just sound soooo unbelievable.🎉
@JohnEspinosaa Ай бұрын
whats the craziest thing u saw
@kyndracrump Ай бұрын
What was the wildest thing you remember seeing or being apart of?
@janemartins4543 Ай бұрын
So inspiring !!
@MarR310 Ай бұрын
What a great attitude 👏
@Cashonly__ Ай бұрын
growing up in ATL, especially during this era, is like always being the best dressed person in the airport. you don’t lose the touch you get in ATL & you never lost the touch that this time & the strip industry imprinted on you. my mom refuses to allow me on only fans, she insist i do playboy. i work a corporate job. but that’s just the impact and influence. so many of my friends moms childhood and beyond were these women & i wouldn’t change it for the world ❣️
@cruxdeluxx Ай бұрын
Great story I had no idea about this place, let alone the women who worked there!! Would have LOVED to check that place out
@r.hill.2369 12 күн бұрын
Ahhh, the good ol' days of Atlanta. Live in the burbs now but I remember that place well.
@jtozuna Ай бұрын
Right off the gate dropped john stockton's name 😂😂😂 LITTLE JOHNNY A FREAK!!! (My shannon sharp voice)😂😂
@rigelb9025 Ай бұрын
Don't forget the king of Sweden. She must've suffered from severe Stocked-on syndrome.
@danielshehta7831 Ай бұрын
She went home to pick up her phone there was a raid😂 she got tipped off
@Pickldwatamelun Ай бұрын
She was a great story teller, impressive place/ career for a dancer. Big props to Steve looking out for them, that’s how it should be.
@annabels8754 Ай бұрын
Amazing story absolutely amazing ❤❤❤❤ love this diva
@cartomancycarmen Ай бұрын
Privacy is what made things special.
@selmahare 5 күн бұрын
It has never been any special, it's sex for money, prostitution... c'amon, stop! How is that any special, it's primal, primitive, ape like behavior. But privacy did make it less mainstream. It's scary that all the density and degeneracy is now mainstream. But I guess that this is the time of all the shadows coming to light tho, so what to say.
@lc6636 4 күн бұрын
Exactly. Now, people are in the streets.
@wesleyoke8448 25 күн бұрын
I love that last quote. That's the truth. I see the difference and it makes me sad. People use to have wild times. Real parties. But camera phones killed it all.
@damnedlock2956 Ай бұрын
I went there a few times....it was top notch...and those days of the way strip clubs use to be are looong gone.
@CP4Z167 Ай бұрын
A bit surprised to see Keanu Reeves name pop up lol
@POLYLIVING Ай бұрын
This was so fun to watch🙂 We need more than The Players Club Strip Tease Show Girls Hustlers & P-Valley🙏 I’m 24 yrs into the stripping industry. This is a huge community. Film makers need to give us more
@lladnar69 Ай бұрын
The reputation of Atlanta as strip club central (in the 90's) was verified by none other than Married With Children. Al, Jefferson and Griff pull out a Yellow Pages sized phone book as a guide to really seeing what Atlanta was like at that time. I lived it from every side a guy could working and living downtown at that period. Asking, "Where do you dance at?" was a compliment in the intown social service scene. Money, that's why, women made lots and lots of money. There was an empowerment aspect to it, that she was relating. Now in 2024, the scene is less than half of what it was.
@judyharper1742 5 күн бұрын
Just a thought, stumbled on and watched this, very interesting. A day gone by.
@philsonslament9955 Ай бұрын
With that many indictments, I would like to hear the behind the scenes story of what was happening at the Gold Club. Especially with that much prison time, there had to have been something actually going on. Sure I can see the government trumping up charges to clear space for infrastructure, but there’s gotta be more to it.
@EmiLovesHamiAnBambii Ай бұрын
I feel like I can listen to her tell stories for hours
@baymaster20 Ай бұрын
Steve a real one now that’s a real boss💯
@JesusChristHeals17 Ай бұрын
He did it so they dont rat him out
@jackiecook637 18 күн бұрын
Wrong
@lilian807 Ай бұрын
We need a full documentary on this!!
@MW1_2_3 24 күн бұрын
I spent many nights in the Gold Club. She is spot on 100%. That place was the very best of the best. Lotta cash went through that club. More to the story. A lot more.
@philipentwistle1223 Ай бұрын
My now ex-fiance worked there as a dancer when this crap went down. That place WAS the party place! She made a lot of money working there for a couple years. Crazy times! 😂
@JohnEspinosaa Ай бұрын
u was set for life my boy wtf happened 😂
@priley817 Ай бұрын
Now wonder she’s ur ex.. never wife up a stripper.
@philipentwistle1223 Ай бұрын
@@JohnEspinosaa the FBI happened
@kyndracrump Ай бұрын
How were you comfortable with your girl being a dancer? Did she ever make it up to V.I.P?
@oliverkovarik5791 Ай бұрын
Actually a good vid from VICE, also imagine the guy leading all that 😅
@kosh2001 Ай бұрын
The good old days...I miss them! And remember there was only Champaign in the Champaign room or in this case the gold room.
@user-fw8dh9xr4u Ай бұрын
RIP to CRETE. The love of my life.The best valet there ever was. #GoldClub Forever
@jackiecook637 Ай бұрын
RIP hurts so much
@scottydont9540 Ай бұрын
I find it funny that she never mentioned the Gambino connection. I went there back in the day and honestly it was a bit disapointing. If you were not ready to drop 5K then then you got 2nd class treament and I was not at that point then.
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