WEST POINT, Utah – A woman has accused a northern Utah city of trying to sweep her topless maid business out of town.
The West Point City Council has revoked the home business license of Dee Dee Derian, saying she misused it by sometimes running the business from a cell phone outside her home.
The license allowed her to do scheduling and bookkeeping for Black Rose Maids, her topless maid service that also operates in Arizona and California.
Derian, 44, accused the city of discriminating against her because she’s not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the dominant religion in Utah.
West Point officials say they are bound by law to prevent Derian from operating the business if it violates her license, and the decision had nothing to do with the nature of her business.
Since January, she has been operating without a license, and she filed a lawsuit this month accusing the city of wrongfully failing to renew it.
Derian received national attention in 2001 when her neighbors complained about her doing yard work in a bikini. Prosecutors declined to press charges after determining she hadn’t broken the law.