Chippendales vs. Strippendales: The battle over a male strip club empire

The father of Chippendales was in his 30s when he launched what would become a multimillion-dollar empire of jacked, bow-tied male strippers. Before long, Banerjee’s dancers were touring like rock stars, he‘d opened a club in New York, and a “Saturday Night Live” sketch featured Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley as aspiring Chippendales performers. Banerjee would wave dollar bills in the baby’s face and say: “money,” recalled Bruce Nahin, a former lawyer for Chippendales. The lawyers noted that on social media, Jesse called himself the “Chippendales Heir.” “I’m telling my story,” Jesse said in an interview with The Times. Chippendales ain’t slick!” In response to Bane’s motion, Chippendales’ lawyers said that he “did not and cannot submit any evidence supporting his audacious speculations that Chippendales has in any way affected his safety.” Responding in all capital letters to a list of questions, a lawyer for Chippendales called Bane’s allegations that the company is trying to kill him “COMPLETELY FALSE.” Bane claims on social media that De Noia is alive and that his father was set up.