All Stars 8 mile road shutting its doors for 1 year.
judge orders all stars strip club closed
detroit bar to be padlocked after girl, 14, testified she worked there as a dancer.
christine macdonald and leonard n. fleming / the detroit news
detroit.a judge on thursday deemed the strip club all stars a nuisance and ordered it padlocked for a year, after finding the bar didn't check the identification of a 14-year-old performer.
the shutdown came after the girl, who had danced at the club this year, testified she was never asked for identification to prove her age or a dance card proving she was legitimate.
the girl also testified that she worked at two other strip clubs before being hired at all stars and that another **** girl she went to northwestern high school with also worked at the club. she was caught only a month after club owners promised to clean up their act by entering into a consent agreement with prosecutors for a number of violations dating to 2003.
"you would think the owners of the business would have been on their ps and qs, " said wayne circuit court judge virgil smith, who ordered the shutdown following testimony from the girl, her mother and another dancer who once worked at all stars.
"exactly the opposite took place."
a club manager was charged with felony child sexual abusive activity after the girl's mother discovered her dancing at the topless bar on eight mile near schaefer in april under the stage name "fantasy."
the club will close july 12. smith initially ordered the padlocking immediately but then decided to allow owners time to work out the details of who would maintain the club while it was closed.
attorneys for all stars said they plan to appeal. the club's attorney, tim murphy, said the decision was expected given the political push in detroit to shut down clubs.
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in my humble opinion, all stars should be shut down for good, considering the fact that there have been shootings there almost all the time. not to mention it got shut down by the health department for the girls giving out std's along with lap dances. but on the other hand this is going to give ammo to the holly rollers who want to run strip clubs out of the city.
here's to another vacant building along 8 mile.