Meet the Jumbo’s Clown Room dancer whose sexy, effortless cookbook is ‘for the girls’

In another life, before she was a beloved veteran dancer at Jumbo’s Clown Room, Scarlett Kapella picked up a day shift at a sleazy yet notorious strip club in the Valley called the Candy Cat — well, notorious because it was once the strip club where Charles Manson’s girlfriends danced for wads of cash before being convicted for murder. A beloved Jumbo’s Clown Room dancer, Scarlett Kapella wrote the cookbook “Wine Me, Dine Me, 69 Me.” “From that moment, I felt I had to reevaluate my life, and I vowed to combine stripping and food in only the sexiest, most elevated way possible,” she says. In that spirit, Kapella is releasing her first cookbook, “Wine Me, Dine Me, 69 Me,” featuring flirtatious recipes and sultry photographs of Jumbo’s Clown Room dancers. The cookbook also serves as a love letter to her mischievous mother, who “lined medicine cabinets with obscene pages from adult magazines to deter snoops.” Kapella hails from a “long line of party houses” — a California family well-versed in party tricks that didn’t shy away from a good time. Speaking of dinner parties, Kapella remembers an elaborate “dinner party from hell” hosted by a Jumbo’s Clown Room dancer who was, at the time, also a drug dealer.