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Do Celebs Really Hang Out in Strip Clubs?

Tue., Nov. 10, 2009 11:01 AM PST by Leslie Gornstein

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What's up with Fergie and her hubby? Did he seriously cheat on her with a stripper?
—Lauren J., via Facebook

Well, let's see, we have the stripper, named Nicole Forrester, alleging yes; and Josh Duhamel denying it; and Forrester coming back with a lie detector test that she allegedly passed. So, ladies and gentlemen of the Internets, I ask you: Do you accept the lie detector test into evidence?

Now, if you're shocked, just shocked, that an actor would get busy with a stripper, you don't know actors. Or musicians. Or sports stars. Or anybody. Because everybody in entertainment loves a good exotic dancer, and I have evidence to prove it, along with a blind item or two...

Why are the blind items blind? Because, according to Ed Norwick, general manager of the gentlemen's club Scores in New York, quality ladies do not dip low and then tell. ("Why kill the golden goose" by burning the people who tip you, Norwick reasons.)

The average size of a celebrity entourage at a gentlemen's club like Scores is about four, though a few celebrities actually come in completely alone.

"When it's just one person, there's a better chance of no one knowing who you are," Norwick explains to me. As for how a star gets into such a club to begin with, many call the G.M. personally, and he meets them at a discreet entrance—but not most of them.

"Most celebrities just want to come in, lay low and hang out" without private rooms or entrances, he said.

Not all celebrities are big tippers—or even spenders. One frequenter of Scores—and really bad tipper—is "someone coming out of the music industry who is also an executive, he has a company. He's used to getting everything" comped, Norwick said. "I've known him since before he became a phenomenon, and I'll go over to him and say, 'What are you doing, come on.' "

The music mogul is not alone: "I've had a very famous English musician, he came out of a band, now he's a solo artist. He used to come in and hang out with his wife on occasion...horrendous tipper," Norwick said. "God knows how much money he's worth."

Another shocker: Stars love to come in with spouses. "I have an actor, a major actor in his late 50s—he comes in with his wife, and they have dinner at the restaurant here, and they stay and play."

Tired of all this professional discretion? OK then.

Here's a not-so-blind item courtesy of the New York Daily News:

Last month, Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, visited the Hustler Club in New York, where the two of them got down. "The club normally doesn't allow civilians to dance, but they made an exception for him," a source told the paper.

Let's just hope he knows how to tip.

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Celebs do way dirtier things than tip strippers. Check our Blind Vice Superstars gallery to see who.