The following story about Rick’s Cabaret and Vinny Faraci parting ways
www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=31389 prompts a first-hand anecdote from Christian.
Christian from www.christiansingstheblues.com writes: since this doesnt really fit into my blog in any way, unless I forced it in i thought I would drop it on you.
I used to be a bouncer at Light, the nightlub in Bellago in Las Vegas, during its heyday in 2003-2004. Our most popular night by far was Sunday nights, when it was almost impossible to get into the place, unless you were a smoking hot chick.
Light was run very smartly by a group of three guys. The club was designed so that the only places to sit were in booths. And the only way to get a booth was to get bottle service. And when you said you wanted a booth, there was a 2 bottle minimum. The cheapest bottle on the menu was Grey Goose, which went for 375 dollars a bottle. This weeded out much of the riff raff that wanted to get a booth.
Anyway, every Sunday without fail, Vinny would come into our club with about 10-12 of his girls from the Crazy Horse. They always had the same booth, upper right overlooking the dance floor. He wouldn’t move the entire night, and if he did, one of us had to keep people away from him at all times. He was treated like royalty.
Why do you ask? Well, those girls he brought weren’t just dancers. lol. You see on a busy night, they weren’t allowing people to get booths that just wanted to purchase 750 bucks, they could hold out for celebrities, athletes, and whales (people who gamble huge amounts of money). So you have a bunch of wealthy guys in a club spending money with a bunch of strippers hanging around. Can you see the connection now?
Of course he was whoring them out to the people who used to sit at the booths. It was awesome. I watched it happen every week for months and months. Vegas is set up that way. Vinny greases the door running the outside of the club when he enters with his girls. The high rollers pay handsomely to sit at booths and party. The high rollers pay the girls for their “services”. Vinny of course gets a percentage from each girl. Everyone takes care of everyone else.
That was when the Crazy Horse was the premier club in Vegas, soon after I left it got shut down I heard. But I will tell you this, everyone at Light knew that Vinny was a member of the Bonanno crime family. Everyone.
And that made him a legend at our club and in Vegas. I actually sat down with him once at the opening of a club in Mandalay Bay when he was hanging out with Davia Ardell. Nice enough guy, didn’t talk barely at all.
There you go, Gene. Nothing made up about this story. 100 percent factual.
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