![]() A combination of ketamine, methylone (or “molly”) and cocaine was used to make them relax, have fun and forget, according to the indictment. Once they arrived at one of the clubs, the women would run up his credit card.īut the scheme wasn’t faultless - some men would say they were too tired for a club and refuse to take drugs. “Drunk on alcohol and feminine attention,” Pressler wrote, they’d “steer him toward one of the clubs from which they had negotiated a lucrative percentage of his spending.” Those clubs included Scores on the West Side of Manhattan and RoadHouse NYC Gentlemen’s Club in Flushing, Queens, according to the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s indictment. As Barbash explained to Pressler, and as Scafaria stages in the film, one of the women would meet the client for a drink before the others showed up. Yet traditionally, instead of the clubs paying the dancers, the dancers pay the clubs for the privilege of working there.”įishing was lucrative because the women essentially had rolodexes of previous clients - typically wealthy men who would want to drink and party at strip clubs. “The girls were the main draw this was as plain as the neon lights outside every strip club in America. And it wasn’t always glamorous or lucrative. “The men were mostly assholes,” Pressler wrote. At this time, their work was legal, earning money in tips and gifts from their male clientele. It was 2007 when the two started working together to make money from “mostly Wall Street guys,” Barbash told Pressler. That hustling began with stripping at a local club in Rockland County, where Keo grew up, around an hour and a half’s drive from New York City, before she moved on to bigger opportunities at Times Square’s Flash Dancers club and Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club. Would I have worked so hard, would I have hustled so hard, the way I did, knowing I had something to fall back on?” “Who knows what kind of person I would’ve been if she was there to back me up. ![]() ![]() “My mom wasn’t able to help me,” Keo told New York in a new interview published online Sept. ![]() Roselyn Keo and Samantha Barbash’s humble beginningsĪccording to the account she told Pressler, Keo discovered the world of New York City strip clubs after her parents, Cambodian refugees, left her and her brother with their grandparents. Here’s the true story behind the movie Hustlers. ![]()
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