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Metro: Prostitution, drug activity found at topless Rio pool
Published Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | 1:37 p.m.
Updated Thursday, July 30, 2009 | 4 p.m.
Map of The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino
The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino
3700 W. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas
Metro Police officers made arrests for “prostitution-related activity” Saturday at the Rio’s Sapphire Pool, police said Wednesday, which resulted in the hotel-casino’s decision to close the pool.
Metro spokesman Bill Cassell said officers in plain clothing did a routine enforcement operation at the topless pool Saturday and arrested 11 people. Cassell didn’t know whether those arrested were employees of the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club.
The following women were arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution: Andrea Michelle Campbell (two counts), Jennah Lieboff, Melissa Cortney Essmaker, Galiana Slavshea Georgieva (two counts), Elizabeth Alma Corbin, Tobi Jean Sorenson (four counts), Inna Kokin (two counts) and Phoenix Lynn Kuzara (one count). Campbell also was arrested in connection with possession of a controlled substance -- methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance -- marijuana and possession of narcotics paraphernalia.
Other arrests included Erica Faye Hefley in connection with sale of cocaine and conspiracy to violate the Uniform Controlled Substance Act; Brooke Rebecca Firks for obstructing a public officer; and Victor Manuel Camarillo for sale/possession of cocaine, sale of cocaine, conspiracy to violate the Uniform controlled Substance Act and possession of cocaine with intent to sell.
The Sapphire Pool was the Rio’s topless pool, where the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club dancers would appear topless during the day. Sapphire removed any mention of the pool from its Web site Tuesday.
Metro does routine enforcement checks at nightclubs, casinos, hotels and pools throughout Las Vegas on a regular basis, Cassell said.
The decision to close the pool was made by the Rio. Cassell said Metro Police did not force or suggest that the property close the pool. No charges will be filed against the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club or the Rio, Cassell said.
The Rio said in a statement Tuesday night that the “pool complex remains open to guests; however, the property decided to suspend a topless sunbathing option at the resort.”
Rio spokesperson Deanna Pettit said today the property had no further comment on the information released by Metro Police.
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The city government is making sure the ENTIRE CITY becomes a police NO-GO ZONE. I can't wait for Cuba to open up for US citizens!
What happened to the haters that were saying the moral rightous were overbearing in the earlier article that didn't mention prostitution arrests?
Is stopping prostituition the work of the 'bible thumpers' too? the 'power-hungry' in the non-elected offices that are imposing their morals?
Where did you guys go now that the full truth is out?
2008 - What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
2009 - What happens in Vegas, Nothing.
So the truth comes out.. The RIO is running scared from scandal and possible fines related to gaming maybe even liquor license removal? Thanks PRIVE for paving the future of Las Vegas.
What used to happen in Las Vegas - is no longer happening in Las Vegas.
In an ironic way -- We should be ashamed to have the title of "Sin City". We do not deserve that festive/adult name any longer. The world has allowed us to have it (and flaunt it if we desired) and we've allowed the carpet baggers to run us into the ground. Shame. This was such a great town when we really were Sin City.
Thanks to all the people who have moved here from California and brought all their laws with them.
simple solution = legalize prostitution
Anyone who believes that sexual excess attracts the center of America is grossly out of step. Many of us, who previously visited Vegas, have absolutely no use for this kind of behaviour. I'm so glad the Rio closed its topless/prostitution pool. Once the pendulum swings a little further back, we will resume our visits to your city. If you want the gangbangers, ho's, and the criminal element instead, keep on the same path.
So I wonder if the casino's have odds yet on the next club/pool/area to be shutdown will be? My money is on Pure...
if i was one of the girls in that photo...i'd file a lawsuit against the sun TODAY.
it makes them look like THEY were the prostitutes.
strippers involved in prositution........shocking!
and yes...
we really need to get a grip and legalize prostitution in clark county.
it's HAPPENING anyway, people.
those girls sitting at the casino bars all by themselves in the 6 inch heels on a tuesday night...umm...they aren't there for the happy hour.
we could fill every foreclosed home, and provide health care for all our citizens if we legalized it.
What the hell do you expect on a 'topless' pool? The ladies handing out Bibles?
OK, this is now getting ridiculous. The people looking for "good, clean family fun" already go to Anaheim, Branson, or Orlando. Vegas already tried "family friendly" in the '90s, and we all know how that worked. (NOT!) Now what happened at Prive was certainly over the line (sexual harassment and underage drinking are NEVER cool), but Clark County shouldn't use the Prive scandal as an excuse to shut down everything that "Sin City" is all about! Just because some people don't like rowdy nightclubs and topless pools doesn't mean we need to get rid of them.
The "moral rightous", as you say, have created the current atmosphere that will send ALL Las Vegas clubs, hotels and pool parties running scared over anything non-PC. The industry is paranoid right now and with good reason.
Wanna bet that Harrah's wasn't looking for a way out of their too-sinful relationship with Sapphire despite it being fairly successful? The findings from the "routine check" were a great excuse to sever the Sapphire connection, displaying to the powers-that-be Harrah's sense of moral responsibility.
Plain and simple, they are scared--and should be--as the Pure mess is still unresolved and that one will be more than a slap on the wrists. Wouldn't doubt that there's more crap coming down the pipeline on some of their other properties, too
The real question is, do we want sin or don't we? If we don't, what will we have left? We've been pushing the sin theme for so long--since the beginning, perhaps--that that's what we are known for. That's why people come here. Of course, we've built up an infrastructure which supports the sin with shows and restaurants and what have you but the bottom line is that people come here to do things they can't do or don't want to do in their home town. And we accommodate them. Or, at least we used to.
When New York City clamped down on the sin a few decades ago they had lots to fall back on. People traveled to NYC to shop, to see Broadway shows, to attend business meetings in the premier U.S. business city. The sin was secondary. Icing on the cake.
It's not secondary here. It's a major part of our appeal. But the morally indignant want to stamp it out. They don't want to stamp out the abuses they want to eradicate the sin. Period. And then what will we have? Some top-notch hotels, clubs, & restaurants that are empty because the reason they were built is gone and all the other stuff can be had in other cities without traveling to a hot and dusty and culture-less desert town.
What we actually need is to quit being hypocrites. No more of this "you can have topless pools but you can't have a party atmosphere at the same time because that leads to, well, you know" crap. No, prostitution should not be allowed at a topless pool party but it might just happen--particularly where sexy strippers are paid to take their top off and lounge around in the sun--because there's a demand for it and there's no legal outlet to meet that demand. We set up the mood and the environment and pay R & R to disseminate that message and then are shocked--shocked, I tell you!--that sin actually happens. Pathetic.
We need to understand what makes us different and capitalize on that and yes, regulate and tax it. Ya just can't keep telling people that it's Sin City and then getting all bent out of shape when someone has the nerve to actually provide the promised sin.
They look like nice working-girls. The topless pool is for adults isn't it, and if you pay extra to enter into that area, I would suspect you will see adult activities. If that offends you stay in the general pools with the rest of the kidds.
Why all the fuss over what is going on in LV these days, it is LV isn't it.
Stop Voting Mormons into office. I am one, but cant stand how most push their morals politically. What happens in vegas is a joke of a slogan.
Final comment: Okay, you guys can continue to assert that Vegas is an adult playground. It may be for you, but for most of us, it is not. Home prices there have fallen well over 53% since the peak, but those of us who live elsewhere have finally seen them increase marginally. They never did fall in the recession here and they at least retained their value. It seems Vegas attracts losers and those who feed off them. Vegas is one reality show after another. If Flava Flay, or whatever is his name, chooses Vegas as his hometown and those other sewer dwellers on MTV do the same, you can have it. Down here in Texas, we would take most of your celebrities out behind the barn and beat some sense into them. We produce cotton, corn, cattle, oil, seafood products, gas, and so many other agricultural products to serve the nation. And yes, you produce somethng else. What a testament to pass on to your children...whores.
This is stupid. I don't go to the Rio, so I could care less. Legalize it and watch people like Rory and the Mighty Mormons go into spasms.
This occurred at a TOPLESS pool.
This wasn't at the local pool I take my kids to.
Hey Barney, you forgot inbreeding!
Come on already, legalize and regulate the prostitution. Its safer that way and it can be taxed and run as a legitimate business. It happens anyway here in Vegas despite whatever the bible-thumpers think. Then the cash-strapped police departments can focus on other annoyances such as citizens being shot in the back in public parks or the gang problem. No amount of undercover policing is going to stop prostitution. Legalize, regulate and tax...
Keep up the good work !!!!
Really, who cares? This is Vegas, aka Sin City. Take the 15 north to Utah if you don't like it. Live and let live, we need the tourist money. The ones who complain the most about these things are usually the ones sneaking behind their wives backs (Gibbons and Ensign come to mind)
Next thing the Las Vegas police should crack down on is the robbery that's going on inside the casinos at the table games and the slot machines.
I mean seriously, how can that be legal to seperate people from their hard earned money so easily.
Damn shame if you ask me. :)
don't worry, petergun.
the economy is forcing a lot of people to stay away from vegas.
hotel rooms WILL be free at some point in the near future just to get warm bodies in front of the slot machines.
For all those who support "sin", let's see where it has benefited you. Here in Dallas, home prices have fallen 7.3% since the peak in August 2006. In Vegas, they have fallen 53.4% during the same time frame. Yes, let's have more scammers, whores, murders, foreclosures and bankruptcies in "sin" city. I can't wait for more of the same, especially in the neighborhoods where most Vegas people live. The apologists here just don't get what is going on in America right now. Based upon the caliber of the responders here and those who commented on that defensiveless victim who was shot in the back two nights ago in the park, I cancelled my reservations for my fall outing in Vegas. Yes, you need more prostitutes working the casinos to enhance the visitor count. Yeah, right Babe.
I thought the reason why prostitution is not allowed inside Vegas (especially the casino areas) is that they take customer's money away from the casinos. Well, since Rio can not get rid of them, they decided to join them until they got caught.
What is the problem with Metro enforcing THE LAW by arresting those who are violating those laws? Prostitution and selling drugs are illegal. There are plenty of places in Vegas where BOTH happen and it shouldn't be happening in a pool area of a resort where families and others are present and want to enjoy.
The Rio has one of THE best pool areas in Vegas. It was always fun to spend a couple of afternoons there enjoying the music and the drinks and just relaxing. WHY the management decided to go with this kind of "entertainment" is beyond me. It cheapens the whole environment. When that kind of behavior starts intruding on everyone else, it has gone too far.
If you guys want to ogle some half naked babe, go to one the gentlemens' clubs. If you want some female companionship, look in the phone book. If you want some drugs, go down to H Street. Just stay out of the pool areas of the resorts.
Another victory for the Victimless Crimes Unit.
Seriously, the negative aspects of illegal prostitution are a natural outgrowth of the fact that it is illegal. It's just like the prohibition on alcohol during the 1920's created the Al Capone era.
When you make something illegal, only criminals get involved. Legalize it, and just as Al Capone was replaced by Anheuser Busch as a beer seller, legitimate businesses will replace the pimps.
"Yes, let's have more scammers, whores, murders, foreclosures and bankruptcies in "sin" city. I can't wait for more of the same, especially in the neighborhoods where most Vegas people live"
Hey Texas Boy
Yeah, you know so much about Las Vegas..... The Strip, the topless pools, the hookers, the white boy drug dealers, all that you mentioned is NOTHING like the real Las Vegas. And like Texas has none of this.....yeah right. Law enforcement just hides it better, you know - that "good ole boy" network.
Or maybe you are just mad because you couldn't partake in a little "sin city" action yourself so now you are knocking it? No one wanted you, hon?
THe people who live here and work here and raise families here are good, decent people. We can't help it if we get scum bags here; YOU were coming here, weren't you?
There are still good people coming here because they enjoy it. People that have class. You can stay in Texas, that vast wasteland that Mexico should have kept.
Great story for the Sun. Beat the competition on my browzer. Interesting story, and right-wing lunacy aside, there are some interesting policy issues.
One thing I'm sure of, howevs, and that is that we would never, ever, shut down a big resort over prostitution on or near the tables. Not that such a horror would ever happen here in family-friendly Vegas, natch.
Should have said - "SPANKED" the competition! Still nothing from the RJ. Great job, Amanda!
check out those last names of the girls...
shocker, huh?
Maybe one day drugs and prostitution will be legalized and perhaps they should be, something to contemplate for future elections. But for right now in this city, in this state, it's against the law. And if you break the law, you'll be punished.
Legalize Prostitution.
Ban idiots from Texas who are afraid of stepping outside their hotel room.
Vegas is down, but not out.
Hate all you want Barney. Talk all the S%^T you want to. Bitch and moan and whine all you want as well.
Just do it in Texas where you can leave us to enjoy the city we call home.
Jackass.
I just looked at the pictures of the "innocent bystanders", I thought they were topless??
Who goes to the Rio topless pool to hang around trashy A$$ people like the ones arrested? Disgusting
Las Vegas was given the Sin City for a reason. Let at the Mormon, LDS, bible thumpers go back to Utah and give birth to more welfare checks!
What was Harrah's thinking when they made the deal for these people to work their pool area?
Unbelievable.
Some heads should roll over this.
It seems that people have forgotten the tourists from this county and overseas vacation in Las Vegas to relax and do things thay cannot to at home. Hotel/Casinos are the #1 revenue source. Casinos pay taxes to Clark County. People employed by the Casinos support Clark County. If tourists and the Casinos slowly disappear, then Las Vegas will become a ghost town.
The next source of income to Nevada is Warehouseing. People working in warehouses and distribution centers do not spent as much money as tourists to Las Vegas.
Funny the comments throwing Mormons under the bus. The article clearly states that this was a routine Metro check like the ones done on a regular basis at nightclubs and casinos all over the strip. The only reason this is news is that the Rio decided to shut down the pool on its own. Prostitutes get arrested here all the time and always have. Has nothing to do with Mormons who pay no attention to the happenings at a topless pool at the Rio. I'm a born and bred Nevadan and I could care less if their hooking at strip clubs or topless pools. But please, don't let me push my morals on you.
have you looked at those pictures? Yikes!
They should close the topless pool down until they get some better looking hookers, although the guy was kind of cute :)
The Las Vegas Sun should be ashamed at themselves for posting these pictures, and possibly ruining these women's lives - or worse, creating targets of them. They haven't even been convicted of anything.
I just viewed those photos. Several girls from Eastern Europe! Fast and easy money. Do you blame them?
Amazing, gentlemen, when those babes take off the makeup, they look like every other 20 something woman!!
WOW Harrahs allows Prostitution and Drugs but Hates Blacks and trys to throw them out of Caesars. Poetry Nightclub never had any of these issues. They never had any citations. Never had Tax Evasion like PURE, Never had their liquor License taken away like PRIVE. Never had a white kid kill another white kid on Caesars Property. But, they were target and constructively eliminated based off the color of their patrons. Who NEVER did any of this!
Fife,
Take a steer horn, dip it in crude oil, take it to your preacher, have him bless it, then stick it in your azzzzz. If you live in Texas why are you reading the liberal NP from vegas?
Hold On! Everyone is overlooking the fact that the Rio and Harrah's has, by virtue of its very, very privileged gaming license, the responsibility to police its areas with its many in-house security. I guess its 'inexperienced' management with those high paid salaries overlooked their duty; if they were doing their job all along, then that pool would still be open as a topless pool. But, NO, Metro came in to check a pool and instead found a cesspool, and it is Harrah's (apple pie, motherhood, and boy and girl scouts) fault. Those arrested, if guilty, ought to have their sheriffs cards revoked, and they ought to be kicked out of town. This type of conduct brings more crime to our town...real crime, not victimless crime...because it breeds drug dealers, pimps, lowlifes, burglars, molesters, etc. Really disappointed in Harrah's and Sapphire's management...what sand pile were they playing or hiding their heads in? How many people work in the visitor industry, and the management types continue to put people's livelihoods in jeapordy. "What happens in Vegas..." is a joke of a slogan...the Convention Authority should ask R&R for their money back! No wonder the feds want to boycott us as a serious destination...
Barney Fife said it all.
Oh, and Mr. Bill Harrah could be spinning in his grave right about now.
I have lost all respect for this company.
One poster weite: "The Las Vegas Sun should be ashamed at themselves for posting these pictures, and possibly ruining these women's lives - or worse, creating targets of them. They haven't even been convicted of anything."
How do you ruin the life of a hooker by printing their (probably alias) name? If they're in that business, life already isn't that great.
Not all of us "tourists" come to Vegas for that garbage anyway. We go to Vegas to see a show or 2, Listen to country music, Eat in restaurants, Shop, visit cheesy museums and gamble a little. I'm not into all of the "sin" that goes on, but we simply stay away from it. Those arrested seemed to be violating many laws, Metro was right to bust them. Nobody wants drug dealers and hookers, except those who choose to break the laws. My answer to "Gentlemen's clubs" is to just stay away from them. If they're operating within the law, there's no problem, just don't expect me as a customer. One thing they need to get rid of are the people trying to shove porn flyers into your hand on the strip. When you say "NO" to one of them, does the next one think you'll change your mind in the 2 steps since telling the last one "NO"? Not sure what "VegasIsGreat" meant in reference to Mormons amd welfare checks. I'm not LDS, but we know a lot of them. Can't think of one who was ever on welfare.
legalise prostitution and stop naming and shaming it serves no purpose, these girls are not terrorists or kiddy fiddlers.....
lets work some figures out
lets say tax for prostitutes was set at say 15%
assume there are 3000 working girls (there is probably more)
each girl can make at least $1000 in an easy evening..
3000 x $1000 = 3000000 x 0.15 = 450000 per day in tax, say each girl only works 4 days a week $450000 x 4 = 1800000
then we assume each girl only works 40 weeks a year
40 x $1800000 = $72000000 in tax revenue
Yes $72000000 in tax revenue per year for Clark County from what they class as scum, it does really need some careful looking at..
this is probably on the very low end of the actual income
This issue here is not whether Las Vegas should legalize prostitution or whether Las Vegas needs to quit being a hypocrite about it's "sin city" mantra-
Obviously there are certain boundaries that exist-(laws?) It is not hypocritical to enforce the laws.
The current spate of nightclub behaviors hurts all of us.
Talk about hypocritical-
Two days ago you are all screaming about "government sanctions against Las Vegas as a convention location
yet you think prostitution should be legalized and the clubs left alone.
Yeah-major corporations are really going to rush out here for that.
Sadly, we are just going to get more citizens like you and we don't need that-
look where it is getting us.
2 Things:
1) THIS HAPPENS IN EVERY CLUB IN THE WORLD
2)Any Moron with a half a brain can see that this is a Grab by the Casinos to OWN those Clubs outright. The Casinos are hurting and they want ALL THE $$$ THEY CAN GET
You watch within a Year ALL these clubs will be CASINO OWNED AND RAN
AND YES I SAID CASINOS WANT THIS AND NOT THE GAMIN CONTROL BOARD DOING ITS JOB
WOW Barbey Fife well STAY IN TEXAS we dont want you bible thumping rednecks here anyway. You have all those industries bc you have LAND AND WATER.... its not bc TEXAS is some great model of society...If you ever watch COPS they film in Vegas alot BUT THEY ALSO film alot in TEXAS...OH NO WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED? The thing is TEXAS is no different than Vegas TEXAS, HAS DRUGS, PROSTITUTES EVEN GAMBLING... WE JUST KEEP OURS A LITTLE MORE IN THE OPEN. Las Vegas is an HONEST city... EVERYWHERE IS ALOT OF BULL$HIT INSTEAD OF THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIETY.... People who live outside of Vegas love to bash it. But all the while the same activites go on in thier cities. ONE THING IS bigger in TEXAS .....THE AMOUNT OF BULL$HIT ....BUT PEOPLE LIVE IN A WORLD OF LIES AND DECIET EVERYONE LIES EVERYONE IS FULL OF IT. DONT KID YOURSELF. PEOPLE BELIEVE THE BIBLE BEFORE THEY BELIEVE IN LIFE OUTSIDE OF EARTH....PATHETIC SHEEP
Reply to Las Vegas Sun:
If you are going to post the photos of those who were arrested for a crime, certainly the ladies, if would be nice to also post the photos of the casino executives-employees and their outside contracted partners who created and should be in control of this pool venue on Harrah's property.
You know, start with the "suits".
After all, they are the ones really making bank on such pool scenes, not the frontline pawns and opportunists who show up because they are supposed to.
Understandably, posting those photos, if available, would break media-industry protocol, and would lead to an adversarial, and possibly legally contentious relationship between Harrah's and LV Sun.
But, it would serve a point.
It's not just the young ladies, many of whom look scared in the photos, who are defacto complicit in establishing this "pool of opportunists" out at the pool, providing people flow and apparently reasonably high visibility for unlawful activity which, above and beyond being illegal, should be way beyond Harrah's policies.
Publish how many of these young women are American citizens, and if they are, how long they have been in US residence.
Young ladies who fly in from Socal colleges on Thursday and Friday nights to trick are one thing. Women from other economically distressed countries who get into bad situations in the US, or try to provide for their families back home, then get in with the wrong people, get exposed and acclimated to drug use, that's less free will in my book. They don't get the same respect, they get more abuse. They are away from home and support systems, without money, and have language and cultural deficiencies. It's free will, but they get in way over their head. It's very sad. And it happens in LA and Vegas over and over and over.
The problems with gaming executives today is they have no nuts, as they want that strip club revenue from conventioners and VIPS badly, but they dont' have the nuts just to put a club in their properties, and run it themselves. It would be bad for the industry abroad, in outfront appearances. So, they make these arrangements like this pool-strip club pool scenario, dabbling, and go with the flow until bad stuff starts showing up in report writing and complaints on property. Then the outcome is people, some of whom are living week to week, get their photo in the paper.
Those babes need some makeovers. :)
wow those girls are beat the look like they suck more crack pipe than anything else who would pay them for anything.....except to go away
Message from metro to all Adults wanting some Sin City fun: STAY THE #@$% OUT OF LAS VEGAS!!!
Would somebody please tell me what kind of fun is tolerated in this "sin" city? Kiddie rides at Circus Circus? Maybe just make Vegas an 18 and under tourist place.
Get off Metro's a**..they were doing they're job. Maybe some of you are mad cuz your skank a** girlfriend was one of the ones busted.
I saw let them make a living doing what they're doing, if someone wants to pay money to be with one of those hags, so be it.
But they shouldn't be allowed to be dealing drugs in a public venue like they're on some street corner and get away with it.
This type of conduct brings more crime to our town...real crime, not victimless crime...because it breeds drug dealers, pimps, lowlifes, burglars, molesters, etc.
*****************************
Yeah, let's not forget that infamous NBA All Star weekend a few years back when ANY female walking on the Strip, from 13 years old on up, was subject to harrassment. I'm sure males were also harrassed. And the the crime rate that weekend! And the drug dealing going down. WORST weekend EVER here in Vegas!! Wasn't worth all the money that was brought in since Metro worked their butts off trying to keep things under control.
Too bad Fife wasn't here - maybe could have gotten lucky!
Don't forget the STD's. What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas!
I think the best comment on here is "Another victory for the Victimless Crimes Unit."
Couldn't have said it any better!
#2 and #10 are the best looking ones, can someone get the hookers in this town some Proactive?
Don't police have been things to do, like preventing violent crimes? Doesn't LV have some neighborhoods where this is a problem.
Violent crime victims are double victims. They are victims of their attack and victims of a society where the police ignore poor people and waste tax money on preventing employment sex workers.
Other countries, who are not sexually prudish-like the US, don't waste tax money on this issue.
These other countries have national health care
8 weeks vacation
guaranteed worker pensions
2 year paid maternity leave.
Gee, maybe if we stopped wasting tax money for the police, and court system and lawyers and allow employment of sex workers-we could have a better country.
The extreme religious right needs to be stopped in the US. They have too much power and money.
The term "gentlemen's club" always makes me laugh. Guys, there are no "gentlemen" in those joints!
Let's see the names and faces of the GUYS involved, also.
OK, reality check here. The Rio must have missed a palm-greasing to the cops this month. If the police wanted to really put a dent in prostitution this wasn't it. You can find independent escorts at virtually every bar and pool in Vegas. Don't believe me? Go check out the Barge at Caesars, the Eye Candy bar at Manday Bay, the Fontana bar at Bellagio, or any major night club on a weekend night and you'll see them by the dozen. Prostitution is WAY more common in Vegas than most people realize. Hell, most of the major casino resorts even employ a few. Usually the cops only care about the street walkers to help cut down on Aids issues so this is a VERY rare event. Again, my bet is some cop in Metro didn't get his "payment" for the month.
People are actually complaining that a major and respectable hotel/resort company doesn't want to be associated with drug dealers and overt prostitution? This isn't the 50s. These companies have a public image and a responsibility to shareholders.
If this is so common why the big fuss if 1 pool and 2 clubs shut down?
Why don't we get Senator Ensign and Governor Sanford when he gets back from his next trip from South America, have them meet at their fraternity Bible house in DC next father's day and have them come up with one of their moral decisions about this subject
Prostitution was never legalized in LV for a reason; it was one of the tokens left for the boys (underlings) the numbers were what the Fellas cared about back in the day and the hotel rooms where just right-offs to keep the Feds happy. The flow of money was steady and everybody got their piece of the action. The bosses got a percentage of the take, they never cared much about the tips- until Wynn came to town- people gave to the dealers. They were happy times; everybody and I mean everybody (Politicians) got a slice of the pie.
The Fellas controlled everything, making sure everything ran smoothly, they took care of all the disputes in the under-world and as we all know the rulings were final. The coppers never came in unless they needed donations for the X-Mas (wink) funds or to advise the Bosses of some activates that exposed them to the press. The feds had tender-foot with the tax codes and how to use them to their advantage, so, they just stayed out.
Now, fast-forward to the 21st century, Corporate America is at the head of many of the tables, the IRS is into everything, they changed the business model of what was once Las Vegas, (the sins) the meadows. They want to make it a nice place to visit for shareholders, not that old place where fun was to be had by anyone. All the Fellas are retired or out of the loop, and the executives didn't realize that prostitution was a part of the operation, so, they defaulted that part of the business to anyone who was willing to give it that "good old college try" except that part of the business is not managed like a fast food joint, call it the learning curve or street smarts, the fact remains, the CEO' dropped the ball. The Rio and other hang-outs have gotten out of hand and they don't have the muscle (Joey2times, Chewwey, sleep with the Gils, i.e.) to control them anymore.
What we are seeing is turf, corporate, warfare, using the fuzz as their soldiers to eradicate what CEO' can't understand or no longer care to maintain in the biz-model any more. In the clean corporate world of industry, this segment would be sold off, as it is no longer manageable. Instead they will just try to kill it as a failed business.
Oh I miss the old school days.
The whole basin of the LV area is there because of the Fellas, and now everybody has forgotten whence they came, they want a clean-cut town; you can't have it both ways. If you are there to make money from the LV industry, get real, even the milkman knows where his loyalty lies. Stop the madness of trying to restructure LV, let it be what it was meant to be by the Fore-Fathers; Bugsy.
I'm shocked. Who would have thought that an alliance with a strip club could ever lead to illegal activity? I was thinking Donnie and Marie was the place to get drugs and hookers.
Many of the girls look Eastern European.
If they shut down the Rio's pool, they better shut down the all of them. Especially the one at the Hard Rock!
I don't recall seeing any of those pictured at the pool. Perhaps if the photos were topless I would recognize a couple of them.
First and Foremost I would like to announce myself as one of these girls that were arrested..
Second of all upon reading all of these posts I would like to question how something of this subject has turned into a political or religious debate..
Third of all I would like to inform many of you that yes indeed while this is Las Vegas that no, many of these girls aren't from here they do come here to make money in their time of need. While many of you can pin point your own stereotypes on women who are topless dancers, or being blunt strippers, you would be surprised if you were to interview, lets say 10 dancers and find out their own individual reasons for being here..
I personally am, as shocking as it may be, a criminal justice major, and if I do say so myself a very bright individual who has a lot in front of her.. I come to las vegas from out of town because personally I have to work hard for my education and that takes a lot of studying and I don't have a great deal of time to work a regular job making $7 an hour.. It simply wouldn't pay my bills let alone my tuition..
I think that while they pinpoint all these women for numerous different charges.. You should also take into consideration that a lot of things that are said as playful banter can be considered prostitution or soliciting there of.. Now, I'm not saying that some of these women didn't deserve to be arrested but I am saying that if you are going to point fingers of judgement I suggest you do your research and look at some police reports because not all of these women said or did horrible things.. Some of them were merely being overly-flirtatious ( AS A STRIPPER DOES ) NOW, the same people that are claiming these strong standpoints of religion CHECK THIS "THE LORD IS THE ONLY ONE WHOS JUDGEMENT STANDS, and YOU as a religious person should know that pointing the finger of blame or judgement is indeed a sin in itself... SURPRISE I'm also a christian woman, but before you say anything to the effect, YES I do know that your body is your temple and no it isn't God's choice or want for you to be sharing your body with the world BUT unfortunately it is what I CHOSE to do, and the lord and I alone know the truth behind what I do.. He is the one waiting for me behind the pearly gates, no one but him.. And if you have anything else to say about it take it back to the story of judas, peter, and the romans..
doll18 - can i have some of the drugs you are taking?
Thank God for those nice policemen cleaning up that pool of all those ugly looking chicks coming to Vegas, from other cities, thinking they can make BIG money.
And the guys that were pimping them, including hotel/casino executives' and so called strip club owners. They are giving the place a BAD name!
We have our standards. Leastwise, we did have until the US government took Vegas away from the Mob and gave it to ruthless bastards of wall street. How'd that work out?
Robert_lv - TRY THIS ask one of the women who were arrested for drug related charges.. You're asking the wrong person I have never taken any type of illegal substance or legal substance I wasn't prescribed..
As for all of you making the middle eastern comments.. 3 of these women are from other countries most of them live here and few of them in other states within the us.. For those of you making the crude comments about looks.. Try being one of the women who was arrested for soliciting simply for being overly flirtatious.. You spend 3 hours in a security office crying after laying at a pool for 3 hours then moving to the jail where you were held for 3 more being harassed because apparently, "your guilty before proven innocent" and crying the whole time.. it doesn't exactly make for the best photo op.. AGAIN ALL OF THESE WOMEN WERE CHARGED *******NOT CONVICTED*******
There are many studies that conducted surveys of prostitutes that say most of the girls were sexual abuse (mostly by relatives) before the age of 16 and most started their profession by age 18.
If you want have sex with a prostitute then go right ahead.
Condoms are not effective against certain types of STDs.
God forbid that you get a disease and take it home to your wife or girlfriend. There are medical journal reports that state that STD's women received from their partners lead to clervical cancer for some women.
You should not have your head in the sand. It is corruption and you are part of it. Most of those girls have mental and self esteem issues and often make poor life decisions.
Everyday they are placing themselves at harm in many ways.
So....if you want to be bad....then be bad...but do not call it an act of kindness or innocence.
Does the fourth picture look like a dude or is it just me? I think someone got some sausage with their order.
As a lifetime resident of Las Vegas, I'm truly dumbfounded at how far we've gone downhill. Yes, Vegas is "sin city", an "adult playground", etc. that doesn't mean that we should import strippers to the hotel pools. It used to be if the hotel was the "place to be", off-duty strippers, showgirls, receptionists, whomever, would show up looking good and hang out. Think Mandalay Bay in its heyday. Strippers didn't need to be imported, nor did anyone need to be topless to look good in a bikini and party. You also didn't need a room key or cover charge to get in. Vegas tourists should be able to go to their hotel pool and not be solicited for sex or drugs. Vegas tourists should be able to go to nightclubs and not be raped or harrassed. Nightclubs should not bilk thousands of dollars out of people to buy a seat or a drink. What happened to treating people with respect, courtesy and actually giving good customer service so they might want to return. Give me the mob back any day. At least they knew how to keep the prostitues behaving, and they knew how to treat a tourist. Like royalty so they would be quick to return and spend their money. How sad we've become as a town that doesn't produce anything but sleeze. Where is Ralph Lamb when you need him?
"There are many studies that conducted surveys of prostitutes that say most of the girls were sexual abuse (mostly by relatives) before the age of 16 and most started their profession by age 18.
If you want have sex with a prostitute then go right ahead.
Condoms are not effective against certain types of STDs.
God forbid that you get a disease and take it home to your wife or girlfriend. There are medical journal reports that state that STD's women received from their partners lead to clervical cancer for some women.
You should not have your head in the sand. It is corruption and you are part of it. Most of those girls have mental and self esteem issues and often make poor life decisions.
Everyday they are placing themselves at harm in many ways.
So....if you want to be bad....then be bad...but do not call it an act of kindness or innocence."
I can absolutely agree with everything stated here.. It is facts and that alone.. However when I made the statement to do your research I meant it because YES while there are many studies that suggest that sexual abuse is the route of many women making there choice to dance is correct THERE ARE ALSO MANY WOMEN WHO WEREN'T..
I would never even attempt to call dancing an act of innocence either.. Its not in any way shape or form but it is a decision I made as an adult.. HOWEVER I never would have thought it would land me here.. I merely got arrested for like I said being overly flirtations in the way I was speaking.. I will take the blame for what I did and deal with the consequence but I think these newspapers advertising me as a prostitute is absurd.. If they would like to slander my name for being a stripper then fine I'll take that because It is what I was doing in a strip club but never once have a prostituted myself or told anybody I would have sex or perform sexual behaviors on them.. I was simply overly flirtatious..
The only thing that kills me is these news papers are quick to point fingers of blame and call many people prostitutes over this situation but let me ask you this, when my case is dropped in Sept because I'm found innocent will they post that.. Probably not.. We live in a world where many of you are reading this and believing what you read or see on the news but you have got to realize yet again these were charges not convictions and in the end some of these women including myself will never see these on our record but will forever be haunted by the experience and slander we endured..
cont'd
Personally and I am speaking for myself here.. Like I said previously I come here to make money to support my family and remain as a full time student in a criminal justice program.. Never once did I think my dancing in vegas would ever lead to something of this nature.. I am taking my tush home and finishing school working that minimum wage job because this is not the type of thing I signed up for but feel like it is a product of the job that I chose..
Just for the record though I never claimed that the job of a dancer is innocent nor did I make the claim I wanted to be bad.. I am from a small town where I was raised in an amazing family and I learned to work for what you wanted.. My spouse and I are raising kids and going to school full time to make something more out of our lives.. We are good people who do good things for ourselves and others around us.. I have NEVER been arrested or cited for anything more than a traffic violation ie parking tickets or minor speeding tickets..
I made a wrong choice and spoke without thinking and landed myself in a ditch.. But believe that I will climb out of it and live happily ever after just as a couple more of these girls were.. I urge you to keep updated with these women's court cases throughout Sept. you will be surprised with your discoveries of why some of these women were arrested..
Even if some of these ladies were indeed in the very wrong.. There are people in this world waving around guns, molesting children, slinging drugs to kids on our every street corner I urge you to put your mind to better use and find a stop for that.. Im not talking about Metro or police Im talking about many of you wasting your time being angry with people doing adult things money or not.. you don't have to worry about your 10 year old son paying thousands for prostitution you do however have to worry about the gang banger up the street convincing your kids "its the cool thing to do." Be proactive and focus your energy on being more proactive about these things than consenting adults or topless clubs
Can't these women just do it for free??
Reply" Doll 18
Your last post was well stated.
The public "cookie cutters" individuals, men and women, who work in the adult entertainment industry, which is about a 90 billion dollar gross industry, the last number I heard. That is four times the gross of mainstream Hollywood, who's target market is the 12-20 age group.
But, there is great diversity in the type person and their motives for working in an area of the adult entertainment.
I stand by my comment (above) that young women who are "out of country" are at greater risk for disadvantage and/or abuse. Often they are selling themselves to support-help families abroad in need, sometimes for chronic health needs.
There will always be a demand, whether online fantasy or real life.
But, there must be reasonable regulation and effective control-discretion in delivery of the product. Placement and location is important.
Adult DVDs are not for sale in the grocery store! As for adult pools, operators would be better to go ahead and operate adult clubs, highly segregated on their property, rather than dabble with consignments to outside interests.
One of the largest hotels in Vegas years ago converted an upstairs houskeeping office into a PBX call center for escorts, both to control who worked in their hotel, and participate in cuts. I am not suggesting that!
The establishment of night clubs and adult pool scenes on corporate gaming licensed properties today is a manifestation of two things.
First, every corporate gaming executive observed the winning formula the Hard Rock Hotel and superhost Jimmy Tipton had at their property for younger, high spending guests-VIPS in the late 90s. Later, the up and coming Palms was successful.
The bundled corporations ackwardly went after the same customer, the new inheritor. The problem is there is only one Jimmy Tipton, he's well liked and great at what he does. And there are just so many young, QUALITY customers.
Corporate suits cut deals to their advantage (company profits, personal stock option targets) to lease space for night clubs and new, young casino hosts started showing up on casino floors to insure there was a "profitable relationship" with the operators of the new clubs and before-after bars-lounges built around them. Few of these hosts knew the gaming business, but they had some experience with younger clientele, and/or juice.
It's always about getting the money and a good time in Vegas, today and yesterday.
But, in the old days, community-family, raising children and putting business offerings in perspective with regard to the right space and place, "discretion", if you will, was very important.
Today's gaming operators inside bundled corporations have yet to reconcile exactly how they want to approach both getting the money, and discretion, in their business models.
Hanging young women's photos in the paper is not the solution. Not at all.
The establishment of nightclubs and adult pool scenes on corporate properties with gaming licenses today is a manifestation of two things.
The SECOND thing is LIABILITY. Bundled corporations want the money, and approach getting what they want by contracting-leasing it out. The very business they are around, in, or want to be in, is one they don't understand, and one they fear.
Legalize, regulate & tax. Doesn't have to be allowed in the major resort casinos, but I'm sure an "adults only, topless pool & gentlemen's club" with a liquor license, somewhere downtown or on the strip, would be manageable & a money maker. Nudity allowed, but any sexual contact would have to be done in private. So long as its private, consensual, between adults, and doesn't result in injury, it's up to them to work out.(Discretion.)
And don't kid yourselves, this stuff is going to happen, and I'm pretty confident the women and the customers will be much safer & better off in a regulated establishment than hustling on the criminal fringe as they are now. (Reality.)
Whether you believe "doll18" or not, it only makes sense that at least some dancers/strippers won't turn tricks, and marking these women as prostitutes before being convicted of such seems more than a bit unfair and unreasonable. Hopefuly the Sun will follow up on this story and publish the results as prominently as they published these women's photos.
And weren't there several shootings recently, at least one of a child? Maybe Metro should take their "pool patrol" and put them on those cases.
I am waiting for the all male bottomless pool, oh yeah, that's the Blue Moon
"NVL-Idep13"
I don't know if you got the wrong impression some how of what I was saying but what you said is exactly my point..
I am one of those women in one of those photos.. One of 3 that actually dance for a decent living while putting myself through college.. Never been arrested, charged, or convicted of any crime except the occasional speeding or parking ticket.. I have never done drugs, not once and I do attend school full time as a criminal justice major and would like to one day work a homicide unit as a detective.. I am one of few that dance for the right reason even if it isn't a "right" job..
Asia, Europe, even Cuba has legal prostitution. If Gilespee thinks he is going to pay for his cops, with Vegas a ghost town, think again. The family Vegas trip idea flopped, the seniors are upside down in their houses, now the club people are chased off.
I think there are more dancers like doll18 around then the ones everyone assumes are prostituting themselves. I believe that a lot of them are doing this because, let's face it, the money is damn good!! If I was way heck of a lot younger, s*** I'd give it a whirl!
I used to get mad at my ex because he would always be oogling the girls and saying "naughty" things. I always had to remind him that they could be our neighbor and they are making an honest living, albeit not one that everyone would choose. People tend to forget that some of these girls ARE our neighbors and are members of the community.
Hopefully, doll18 will keep us posted on what happened.
Sorry Doll 18,
You're getting caught up in the American dream the wrong way, but you're flipp'en your azzz for the money, instead of flipping burgers.
Little sympathy well ever be given to you for doing it the simple way.
If you want "the Most amount of Money for the least Amount of Time", you should just hook.
Otherwise women up, and do it the traditional way and stop making excuses.
No body said it would be easy, get proud!
Thoughts from a childless cheesehead, 5x visitor to LV - most recently in April, who once stayed at Rio and enjoyed the pool circa 2003 (alas, no nudity) and loves the idea of Sin City as an adult playground:
Doll18: Good luck to you, and may you find better employment, even if it isn't as lucrative.
NLVIndep13: Right effing on.
Nightmare: I've been to strip clubs all over WI last 15 years and several in Vegas, and have been propositioned to buy sex ONE TIME, and heard ONE other story from a friend who had a friend who took an offer for sex at a club. Quite frankly, "Gentlemen's clubs" are NOT brothels, or drug dens. Which leads me to ...
Journey: I've told some off-color jokes (in jest only). Got stoned a lot. But I have always treated my wife with the utmost respect and have remained faithful. I've been told by others I am a keeper. And although I enjoy viewing porn and admiring the female form, I also hold open doors, let people go ahead at 4-ways stops, put shopping carts in the corral, recycle, and although I am not a churchgoer would consider myself on the whole more gentlemanly than not. And many of the strippers I've talked to say they've met mostly nice guys and only a few jerks. Open your mind, people!
Bottom line, legalize & tax prostitution and drugs not just in Sin City but all over a "free" country. And if you don't like it, don't do it, but don't cast aspersions on someone who might enjoy consensual, victimless (if done right) activity. And keep your kids out of the topless pool!
Also: Why would the police need to be undercover there at all? Can't Rio security handle things and call the cops when necessary? And why would Rio let Pure run that show? Mandalay Bay runs its own topless pool, after all. Comes down to money, I spoze.
Can't wait to return to Vegas (unless it becomes a family atmosphere again. *retch!*)
GO BREWERS!
hopscotch 1 :
Don't be misconstrued, I never asked for your sympathy or anybody else's for that matter..I don't want it nor do I need it.. I simply stated facts.. As a matter of FACT I believe I stated in one of my posts that I take responsibility for my actions.. JUST simply said that I'm not a prostitute nor would I want to be I just let my mouth speak before my mind and got overly flirtatious and dug myself a hole.. WHICH I WILL CLIMB OUT OF ON MY OWN WITHOUT THE SYMPATHY OF OTHERS..
Doll 18,
More power to ya, you can do it girl and get PROUD!
But better yet....get SMART.
Las Vegas Sun lives on sensationalism. Your publication is a disgrace.
I wonder if them hose bags all have health care.
Harrah's got in over their heads pimpin'. Metro bailed them out, by making a few sensationalized arrests. All these girls will walk. The dealer probably walks too, unless the cops actually scored some product.
Harrah's = PIMPS
I don't know about you, but I feel sorry for the poor police officers forces to look at topless women for hours to try and catch them breaking the law.
we have friends who visit sin city from europe, they are disgusted by the lack of nude bathing and are puzzled why there are no brothels, it is pretty normal in europe and they have less problems than us...
by the way the casinos lose money as we tell our friends about a nude private bathing party they visit there and now tell other people about it... long term these casinos and the county will lose out on money... unless they loosen laws and start to legalise these activities..
Like we said the county could raise at least $720 million a year in tax from prostitutes if they legalise it...
Thumper....there are three most likely reasons for all these arrests and shutdowns.
1) It is a shake down. Somebody is not paying rents to the higher ups. The economy is depress and the cops' and politicans' revenues are down. They are trying to squeeze money from everything. These places might have stopped paying rent or came up short on rent or perhaps never paid any rent.
2) Competition is paying some bonus money to the cops and politicans to "kill" off their competitors. The economy is depress and they are all fighting to the be last man standing.
3) The cops and politicans have a geniue concern for all the lewd and illegal behavior at these joints. They have a duty to uphold the law and they have a concern that Las Vegas might get a reputable for being an out-of-control tourist desination.
The reality of life that corruption happens in every single city on the planet.
The level of corruption is what determines if we live in an efficient and safe place.
Too much corruption and the economy turns into a black market system which is not efficient and not safe. Just look at Mexico.
I have no clue which of the three is happening in Vegas. It could be a combination of all three. Hopefully, it is more of number 3. Most likely it is not.
Prostitution and drugs at a 'topless' pool at the Rio............and this comes as a what - surprise? Good grief women PUT SOME EFFING CLOTHES ON AND RESPECT YOURSELVES.
and btw, tell me the MEN who were BUYING the 'services' were also hauled in - right? Didn't think so. If there were no 'buyers' the 'sellers' would soon be 'out of business' now wouldn't they?
Haha. Only in Vegas. Why call it Sin City? How about Las Vegas, the toilet destination of the US. Las Vegas, the place where you can crap and leave. Why fake it? Just let these casinos all have brothels and tax the hell out of them so teachers can get a raise and a simple road construction project can be completed in a timely manner.
the pool closing for this reason is not a surprise to me, however, putting these girls faces up for all to see with their real names and charges is definetly an embarassment. getting arrested and going to jail is one thing, but being put on blast for all to see is another. do we really need to know their names?
This scandal will probably be good for Rio's business. In a week or two - they will reopen the pool.
WHAT A COINCIDENT THAT THIS BUST WITH METRO POLICE JUST HAPPEND TO DO A ROUTINE CHECK AND FIND ALL THIS WRONG DOING, AFTER GREG AND FRANK FROM PRIVE CLUB AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD GET BUSTED THIS HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER
Reply: Mr Thumper:
YOUR STATEMENTS: "Security, in the majority of casinos run the action. They get paid large to keep them (escorts) safely on property."
YOUR STATEMENTS ARE FALSE.
There are occasions where independent contractors (not working for an out call service) soliciting a bar must "pay to stay" at the bar, in other words the "bartender" wants people in his zone to be conducting business, something the bartender's employer also expects, within reason. So, something extra may show up in a tip for a drink to the bartender, as they know bartenders control their own bar. But, there are LV bartenders, no matter tips, who will report someone for actively soliciting their bar. If the bartender wants you out, you are probably going to have to leave the bar.
You are correct if you state there has been (is) look away money in play in the night clubs servicing cash heavy VIPs, yes including Bellagio. But, the juice to staff usually comes from the VIP(s), not the lady(s).
Such tipping activity for the wrong reason(s) are unethical and against gaming company policy. Some staff feel compromised because the customer is important, but the problem is with some key employee(s) in night club operations, not everyone. Again, gaming operators let their space out to operators from OUTSIDE the company.
I am not sure what you observed, but Hotel Security and especially survelliance DO NOT accept money from escorts to allow them on property. Your friend may have tipped a familiar face she enjoys seeing, but there is no professional motive for the out call escort to pay Security, when they arrive at valet and walk to a room number or nightclub (just like any other guest-invitee would do).
If she actually stated what you write, then you were not important to her, and she was merely providing you misinformation about how business is really conducted.
Presumably, some people do read these posts.
Your statements are not true, and shed a negative light on gaming floor staff who are ethical and work hard daily with large numbers of people and events. Guests, certainly travelers, should know such statements are false.
Thumper
Hey its your fantasy, LOL Anybody that works in these Hotels knows better
It is a shame that the Rio even allowed Sapphire to open a topless pool in the first place. Sapphire is notoriously known for running prostitution (hello...Jimmy Alex!) I am just waiting for vice to do an actual bust on the illegal acts happening at Sapphire. I am sure that these things happen in alot of strip clubs...but word to the wise it happens ALOT at Sapphire! From your manager (oh lets just call him Steele) to your other manager...John? The ring leader, the jewish guy is always hiding behind business partners but he is the one who controls all of these bad business decisions. Good luck with trying to rebuild your reputation RIO!! IT is a shame for other gentlemen's clubs who try to do business by the book.
Thumper you are want to be Vegas guy. My guess is your a school Janitor somewhere
Hey People of Las Vegas, I love your city! Please, keep it special.
I've been to Vegas a whole bunch of times, left a whole bunch of $$$.. This Memorial weekend was particularly not good for me gambling wise, but I still loved it. Can not wait to get back.
I live close to Atlantic City (75min), Foxwoods/Mohegan (2.5HR) and the new Sands Bethlehem (45min). But none of those places come even close to Vegas. For now at least.
Please do not let Vegas fall to the level of mediocre. Stay Cool.
I get comp rooms from both AC and Vegas, but in these crappy economic times I have to choose one. Vegas has my vote at this point, cause it's special, it's Sin City, other places are just gambling halls.
Do not bring your city down to the level of competition, stay special.
mormons = blue eyed taliban
"mormons = blue eyed taliban"
Yep...they are absolutely equal.
Taliban kills teenage girls if they date a non-muslim.
Taliban destoryed Hindu artifacts that were thousands of years of old.
Taliban cuts off the heads of it enemies.
Taliban drills holes into the heads of its enemies to torture them.
Taliban forbids women from going to school or getting medical attention.
Yep...the mormons do all that too.
The property value has only dipped so low in las vegas, because it had so far to fall. Our property values were through the roof and many people prospered from this as 4000 a people rushed and clamored to move into our "horrible" little town. This would be in slight contrast to home values in other locations, like in Dallas, where the double-wide's never really gained any value, and therefore didn't have far to fall.
As far as this pool incident being the "start of something" - not a chance, not in this town. There is always a cutting edge marketing team being hired by one of the 1000 casino/resort properties ready to try something creative, new and exciting to drum up business and give people an experience they cannot get anywhere else in the country.
While the rio pushed the envelope a bit too far and quietly bowed out, there's already someone dreaming up another fantasy realized, taking notes on how to not make the same mistakes.
Economy? I still can't find a parking spot at our gorgeous/energized outdoor city-centers like "The District" and "Town Center", and I still have to take a beeper at any given restaurant and wait an hour and a half to get seated. The hyped effects of this dreadful economy I keep hearing about (locally) are nil in my real world experience. Gambling being down a percent or whatever, boo-hoo, I just dropped a 20 at a liquid lunch yesterday, after dining al fresco under the golden sun and refreshing misters... they'll be fine, we're all gonna be fine, and Vegas will be even finer, as she always is.
I'm just a tourist in my own town and boy do I love the playground that's in my backyard whenever I desire to jump on.
The property value has only dipped so low in las vegas, because it had so far to fall. Our property values were through the roof and many people prospered from this as 4000 a people a month rushed and clamored to move into our "horrible" little town. This would be in slight contrast to home values in other locations, like in Dallas, where the double-wide's never really gained any value, and therefore didn't have far to fall.
As far as this pool incident being the "start of something" - not a chance, not in this town. There is always a cutting edge marketing team being hired by one of the 1000 casino/resort properties ready to try something creative, new and exciting to drum up business and give people an experience they cannot get anywhere else in the country.
While the rio pushed the envelope a bit too far and quietly bowed out, there's already someone dreaming up another fantasy realized, taking notes on how to not make the same mistakes.
Economy? I still can't find a parking spot at our gorgeous/energized outdoor city-centers like "The District" and "Town Center", and I still have to take a beeper at any given restaurant and wait an hour and a half to get seated. The hyped effects of this dreadful economy I keep hearing about (locally) are nil in my real world experience. Gambling being down a percent or whatever, boo-hoo, I just dropped a 20 at a liquid lunch yesterday, after dining al fresco under the golden sun and refreshing misters... they'll be fine, we're all gonna be fine, and Vegas will be even finer, as she always is.
I'm just a tourist in my own town and boy do I love the playground that's in my backyard whenever I desire to jump on.
WHY DOES'T OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT DO SOME REAL POLICE WORK AND START ROUNDING UP ALL THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND SEND THEM BACK TO MEXICO SO JOBS COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE ONCE AGAIN TO AMERICAN CITIZENS !!! THE PERINI BUILDING COMPANY HIRES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS EVERYDAY AT THE CITY CENTER PROJECT !!!!!!! PROSTITUTES DO NOT TAKE AWAY WORK FROM
THOUSANDS OF LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS, ILLEGAL MEXICAN CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DO !!
I am a Sapphire Entertainer - Stripper who works at the Sapphire pool and Gentlemen's Club. SIN is big business... sex drugs & rock & roll... so Business in Vegas will have an increase thanks to article with 3 million plus guys and girls who read this arrest article are now packing their bags to fly to Vegas Sin City.. thinking it really is true Sin City is out of control. I can buy sex etc. When the truth is these women are NOT Prostitutes!! Many got arrested for just simply conversation of saying things like "Yeh I like to have fun" or rubbing on suntan lotion to protect themselves from the sun which seems to be a crime if you are topless when you do it. Who knew??? These women arrested are VICTIMS of big business in SIN CITY.. notice the Rio nor Sapphire got hit with any fines and will reopen and continue to charge $50 cover and sell out even more cabanas while these poor women had to pay $2000 plus bail, hire lawyers to defend them against these prostitution charges on their records with public shame and neither the rio nor sapphire step up to cover these legal expenses. Rio and Sapphire will probably renegotiate their contract to give Rio a larger share in the profits for the risk of "bad" press which is really "good" press as more people will pay to check out the INFAMOUS pool full of "SIN" in Sin City. When the truth is these strippers are NOT Prostitutes but sexy topless dancers that just spoke a word or two that got twisted getting themselves caught in this public scandal when VEGAS is FULL of REAL PROSTITUTES High end escorts working the nightclubs, bars and real HOOKERS walking the strip streets and no one cares when their pimps beat them up and many times even kill them. Google "America's Most Wanted Serial Killer" as they speculate a serial killer might be killing these working girls when the truth might just be a "series" of pimp killers taking out their HOs when they try to leave. If the police is so concerned they need to stop harassing strippers for sexy talk and focus on the street hookers walking the strip with pimp in tow.
Yes Sofia, this seems more a line with the truth then that garbage spewed by Thumper
This is ridiculous!!!! I was a dancer at Sapphari and I was at the Rio Pool last year...I never saw anyone doing prostitution plus two of those girls that were charged I know and they are clean dancers! This is just politics!! Clark county police trying to show off on the news!! Give me a break!! When you get in a taxi in Vegas they offer you many girls to pick from..so this is not prostitution??? As a dancer I never had to sleep with any men for money cause I made enough money shaking my booty at the club and plus "no" not cause you are a dancer you are not a "pro". Many girls do not need to get a STD or HIV to make money! As a stripper everyone knows you can do good without real sex. We are fantasy that's all!! Plus, I was in college and that helped me to deal with my classes schedule and make decent money cause all the cocktail waitress jobs in Vegas is almost impossible to get it with you do not know someone!
Sapphari should back up for some of those girls! Being topless at a pool is not prostitution and just cause they probably said few words to those cops doesn't make them guilty!
On the charges of drugs is a completly different story....Wake up people stop your moral comments!
Vegas is the city to have FUN!!!
Sex and SIN CITY is just right! If you want a family vacation and pray Vegas is not a place to come.....We have Sex & gambling that's how this city makes money! Do not come with the BS of cleaning a topless pool when people are on the streets using drugs! Plus, pimps and HO"S everywhere!!
I hope this city stop those non sense actions!!!
THiS IS VEGAS NOT OHIO STATE!!!!
Karen & Sofia;
Pay no attention to Thumper, he is a Vegas "want to be" who does not live here. In fact he doesn't even live here anymore. My guess, Bakersfield or West Virginia hill country
WOW - It was sincerely tasteless of the Las Vegas Sun to leave the pic of the pool's manager next to the strippers who were soliciting and selling drugs - she has kids WOW. She was not selling drugs nor soliciting but you cant tell that by the manner in which you present the pictures and text.
Also, after Prive' was shut down - I hope that at some point readers and patrons get fed up with Government's constant interference with people's quiet enjoyment of Vegas. This is supposed to be the one place we can act like idots and spend some money!! What happens in Vegas - winds up in the paper? Go close the shutters and let the recession take over? Forget that!! Dont let em win this one!
Attention DUMB THUMPER
Number one- I am not the one who charges peoples credit card.plus why they are not smart enough to bring CASH!It is not the dancers problem when the club over charge a credit card!
Number two- who do you think you are to say I am ignorant and just for your knowledge maybe I am way smarter than you are.....just finish my MASTER DEGREE at UNLV plus I born in VEGAS DUMB...you are probably some redneck from somewhere!
Number three- I do not give a crap what peoples think about strippers cause when I was a stripper I set up my goals and people are different. Yes, I made tons $ bought a house, a mercerdes "cash" and paid my college and plus other stuff....Many girls become dancers cause they do not have family and support to put them thru life.
I am sorry you probably do not have the body or ability to shake your booty and make some good money here.
My statement was that " we are a fantasy and we do not need to have sex to make the money" and Strippers have no problems in paying the clubs when they are making five times more than what they paid for a house fee.
PLUS, the girls at the Sapphari topless pool are not paid to be there. What the club offers is free house fees because over the summer the girls do not make as much money as in season so they give them a break!
Just to clarify shut your mouth and go get a life because I am absolutaly glad I was a dancer....just show me what you have LOOSER>>>if you are a guy u probably do not even have money to come to VEGAS ......
VIVA LAS VEGAS BABE!!! I LOVE THE STRIPPERS !!!