The shockingly dark history of Chippendales’ Las Vegas show

nypost.com:

“Welcome to Your Fantasy,” dropping Wednesday, digs into the wild history of the revue. Host and co-producer Natalia Petrzela told The Post: “It was forbidden for dancers to take money for sex but some did.

I heard of guys making $300 to $1,500 for encounters.”As ex-dancer Scott Marlowe reveals in the podcast, a woman once told him, “I’ll give you $100 for every inch of cocaine I can snort off of your c–k.”But all that paled beside what went down between Somen “Steve” Banerjee and Nick De Noia.

The former launched Chippendales in 1979 at a Los Angeles bar. The latter turned it into a global phenomenon. By the 1990s the business would be plagued by a murder, arson attempts and an FBI investigation.Banerjee, a socially awkward but ambitious.