{"id":430918,"date":"2026-10-18T02:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430918\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:40:28","slug":"joe-redner-tampas-strip-club-king-and-medical-marijuana-advocate-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430918\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Redner, Tampa’s ‘strip club king’ and medical marijuana advocate, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Redner, one of Tampa Bay’s most recognizable figures, has died.<\/p>\n

His family confirmed the news in a social media post, saying Redner died peacefully in his sleep on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

“We love you. You will be missed Dad,” the\u00a0post from his daughter, Joy Lynn Redner, said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Redner, considered Tampa’s “strip club king,” was perhaps best known for his Mons Venus strip club that opened in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

According to a Tampa Bay Times report from 2022,<\/a> Redner battled “police and politicians who went after the lap dance business model that made Tampa infamous.” He\u00a0led a highly-publicized war against the city of Tampa\u00a0<\/a>over the “six-foot rule,” an ordinance that required naked dancers to maintain a distance from patrons.<\/p>\n

Redner was also reportedly\u00a0<\/a>an investor for Cigar City Brewing and a familiar face in local politics, running unsuccessfully for multiple offices, including Tampa City Council.<\/p>\n

10 Tampa Bay News spoke to Redner back in 2019 amid a legal setback, when a state appellate court ruled he could not legally grow his own marijuana<\/a> to treat his lung cancer under Florida’s medical marijuana law. At the time, he said he would continue to fight for the cause.<\/p>\n

“I’m fighting the fight for the Constitution, which is for everybody,” he said in a previous interview. “For poor people that can’t afford their medicine. And for myself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Redner, one of Tampa Bay’s most recognizable figures, has died. His family confirmed the news in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-430918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}