Over the weekend, the NY Daily News’s Rush & Malloy had an interview with the former owner of Scores in Manhattan. From what I gather, Scores is a relatively high-end, no-nonsense strip joint, bar and restaurant. The guy, Elliot Osher, was reflecting back on all of the celebrities who came into his establishment, who was cool, and who was not so cool. Some are unexpected. Like… John F. Kennedy Jr., who was interviewed at Scores once by Ann Landers. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore came, I suppose back when they were married. Osher claims Bruce and Demi “treated everyone as equals”.
The grossest and most shocking revelation is that Michael Lohan was once a customer… and he asked for strippers that looked like Lindsay. My gag reflex is tickling. Of course, Michael is denying that he asked for Lindsay-stripper clones, saying “I don’t even look at the magazines where she’s done some risqué photos.” Ugh. It totally gets worse too:
Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Russell Crowe and other celebs may not recall exactly what they did at Scores during the strip club’s thong-snapping, Champagne-drenched, mob-tainted heyday. But former owner Elliot Osher can help them remember.
For 18 years, since he started as a bouncer, Osher kept notes on anyone famous who walked into either of Scores’ two Manhattan locations.
Madonna allegedly stiffed the staff. Bill Gates left a $3,500 tip. Bernie Madoff “wanted a private room.” Bill Maher was an “obnoxious p-.” Russell Crowe “almost got in a fight with an Irish waiter.” Demi Moore and Bruce Willis “treated everyone as equals.”
Osher rattles off other patrons: “Michael Jordan, Howard Stern, Donald Trump, 50 Cent, George Clooney, Eli Manning, Drew Barrymore, Magic Johnson, Christina Aguilera, Jason Giambi, Richard Branson, Charles Barkley, Sean Penn, Diddy, Steven Tyler, Mickey Rourke, Ann Landers …”
Ann Landers? The advice columnist?
“Yeah, she interviewed John Kennedy Jr. while girls danced around him.”
Osher has more than 400 names on his list, which will serve as the spine of a book he’s working on.
“Lindsay Lohan’s father once sat down and described the kind of dancer he was looking for,” says Osher. “We sent some girls over. Funny, they all seemed to look like Lindsay. We ended up having to show him to the door.”
Michael Lohan admits getting into an “altercation,” but maintains, “No girls danced for me. The last thing I’d want to see is a girl who looked like Lindsay. I don’t even look at the magazines where she’s done some risqué photos.”
“Maybe he just doesn’t remember,” insists Osher, adding: “The next week, Lindsay wanted to meet the girls who’d danced for her dad.”
James Gandolfini stopped by to do “research” for his role as Tony Soprano, owner of the Bada Bing club.
“A couple of wanna-be wiseguys didn’t like him,” Osher says. “They would talk about how they were going to rough him up – just so they could say they slapped around Tony Soprano. Gandolfini’s friend [actor/Hells Angel] Chuck Zito put the kibosh on that.
“There was one tough-guy actor who played a goodfella,” says Osher. “He’d come in, get all coked up, and the next thing you knew, he was dressed like a broad. He’d come out of one of the party rooms wearing lipstick and a dancer’s outfit.”
Osher also has tales to tell about “ambassadors we threw out” and “some Wall Street guys [who] could spend $600,000 in a night.”
“Scores epitomized the excesses of America,” says Osher’s co-writer, George Anastasia, whose proposal is being shopped by Literary Group agent Frank Weimann. “It was a time when the financial derivatives were as fake as the girls’ breasts, but nobody seemed to care.”
[From Rush & Malloy]
Ah, strip clubs. Does anyone else feel like they need a shower? Now, as far as the Lindsay and Michael thing… I feel disgusting even saying this, but this has the whiff of truth, doesn’t it? Did anyone else have one of Oprah’s “aha!” moments, where all of sudden there was yet another disgusting, horrible reason for Lindsay’s cracked-out mess of a life? And for Lindsay to go in after Michael and request to see the same strippers? I have constant shivers over this family. It’s like the tabloid version of a V.C. Andrews novel.
Lindsay is shown out on 11/12/09. Credit: VAH/Fame Pictures
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