Stripper-Mobile Shocks Even Las Vegas

'We're going to be good citizens' despite uptick in business

(AP) - A Las Vegas strip club has agreed to stop an advertising promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck. Larry Beard, marketing director of Déjà Vu Showgirls, said today he's taking his lawyer's advice and parking the truck. "We're going to respect the opinion of the folks that are against it," Beard says. "We're going to be good citizens and take it off the street." More»

Or, in Joey Lawrence's case, are about to become strippers

(NEWSER) - It's no secret that heartthrob Channing Tatum used to be a stripper , but he's not the only one in Hollywood with that particular vocation on his résumé. The Frisky unveils seven more:

• Javier Bardem: He claims his stint as a stripper lasted just 10 minutes, and that his mother was in the audience. He was a struggling actor at the time, and looking for cash.
• Mark Consuelos: The soap star and husband to Kelly Ripa stripped while a student at the University of South Florida.

They're suing to halt new law aimed at prostitutes

(NEWSER) - Be careful how you act in Utah: If you get too “sexy,” you could find yourself arrested under a new law. The law broadens the definition of solicitation—agreeing to trade sex for money—to include “lewd acts” that imply you want to trade sex for money, like exposing or touching yourself. It was intended to help undercover law enforcement officers, who are sometimes asked by prostitutes to expose themselves in order to prove they’re not cops. Such requests are now illegal, the AP reports. More»

Says stripper could have gotten him arrested

(NEWSER) - A bizarre, litigious story from the Vegas sex industry: A weekend tourist from New York is suing Las Vegas Exclusive Personals because the stripper it sent to his hotel room did something that exposed him to arrest, the Las Vegas Sun reports. From the beginning: College student Hubert Blackman paid the stripper $155 for a lap dance, and says she talked him into letting her perform a sex act for an extra $120. She didn't, however, stay for the promised full hour. More»

Kim Zolciak denies the rumor, but sources say she was once known as 'Barbi'

(NEWSER) - Perhaps the Real Housewives of Atlanta should be renamed the Real Former Strippers of Atlanta. Yet another member of the entourage—Nene Leakes was the first to admit it—is rumored to have taken part in the esteemed profession. This time it’s Kim Zolciak who supposedly made “a lot of money” working the Cheetah Club under the stage name “Barbi,” a source tells Fox News. More»