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The Jacuzzi

There were all kinds of areas for couples to get together in this club, but there was one certain Jacuzzi that was the sole domain of this permanent A list actor/singer/entertainer.

He would go to Studio 54 for a few hours and find some women to hook up with and to score some coke.

If they wanted some of that coke, they would have to leave the club with him and go to a sex club.

They would then be taken to his special Jacuzzi. He wouldn’t allow them to talk to other men.

They all had to stay in the Jacuzzi with him.

He would make the women get naked and have sex with each other while he watched.

If he didn’t think they were trying, or just out for his coke, he would kick them out of the tub, naked and have them escorted by security out of the area.

He wouldn’t let them retrieve their clothes.

More than one of those women was raped or sexually assaulted on her way out of the sex club.

He didn’t care.

He would keep the women with him for hours and hours as he became more and more drunk and more and more demanding.

He loved humiliating them and night after night he would do the same thing with a different group of women.

This went on for almost a year straight.

Whenever someone says that he was a great guy, I remember how bad he treated all these women and how many had to take a cab in the middle of a NYC winter wearing nothing but a robe because they didn’t like the way they had been treated.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Plato’s Retreat

The Studio 54 of Sex

From its nude Jacuzzi to the orgy-filled “mat room,” at Plato’s Retreat you could have sex next to Sammy Davis Jr., a porn star, or even a bus driver, writes Jon Hart, the director of American Swing.

It started with a cab ride on a frigid December afternoon in the West Village. The driver pushed on the gas pedal and proceeded west through the labyrinth of downtown streets. “We were degenerates,” he said in a hoarse voice. “But we were good people.”

Less than a decade earlier, the driver, Larry Levenson, had owned a large part of midnight. While CBGB was ground zero for punk and Studio 54 was the focal point of celebrity nightlife, Plato’s Retreat, which Levenson owned, was the first public swingers club. It was where celebrities like Sammy Davis, Jr. and Richard Dreyfuss—to name just a very few—partied alongside the everyman.

By the time I met Levenson, it was a decade after the demise of his empire. He was resigned to life as a hack, trolling for fares. I was a young journalist pursuing a piece on cab drivers. I had never heard of him, but I vaguely recalled seeing his club’s commercials on public-access television as a youngster. As he picked up fares, I peppered him with questions. It was the first meeting in what would become a close friendship that lasted until the day he died. During these years, Larry disclosed to me a wealth of memories that would ultimately enable me to co-direct American Swing, the new documentary about his infamous club.

At Plato’s, clothing was strictly optional, Levenson told me that first day in the cab. There was a buffet, a game room, a dance floor, an enormous Jacuzzi, and a mammoth swimming pool. In the back, there were private rooms for intimate acts. And right off the dance floor, sectioned off with plants, was Plato’s piece de resistance: the mat room, where exhibitionistic couples engaged in group activity.

Richard Dreyfuss, who lived several floors above the club, took more interest in adult performer Jamie Gillis, male star of Deep Throat, than the cuisine. – Read more here


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