{"id":290592,"date":"2026-07-08T18:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290592\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:53:22","slug":"new-york-strip-club-scores-its-founder-subject-of-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290592\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Strip Club Scores & Its Founder Subject Of New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Controversial New York strip-club Scores<\/a>, the celebrity-frequented but troubled night spot, is getting its close-up via a movie about the venue\u2019s colourful history and its co-founder Michael Blutrich.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the early \u201990s, despite being heavily targeted by professional thieves, the venue became a buzzed-about night spot and magnet for celebrity patrons, including Howard Stern, Madonna, Russell Crowe, Michael Jordan, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Christina Aguilera, Jason Giambi, Demi Moore and more. At its peak, the franchise operated in two locations in Manhattan and licensed its name to strip clubs in five other cities. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut the club has been beset by legal problems over the years as a result of ties to organized crime, tax evasion and club-sanctioned prostitution. By 1996, after being implicated in an unrelated $400M fraud case in Florida, Blutrich began to cooperate secretly with federal authorities, concerning alleged Gambino crime family extortions. The film will be set specifically between 1991-1998.<\/p>\n

\n\tTommy V Films, the production company founded by producer Tommy Vlahopoulos, whose credits include the upcoming John Travolta feature Ed and Scott Eastwood action film The Outpost, has acquired Blutrich\u2019s life rights and is behind the film. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe development project is based on Blutrich\u2019s memoir Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants In FBI History. <\/p>\n

\n\tVlahopoulos will produce alongside producing partners John Bortolis, Jimmy Black and Theodore Otto with Christopher J. Scott (Ed) serving as lead producer. The team is aiming to shoot later this year in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2015, CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes profiled Blutrich\u2019s story in the Anderson Cooper report An Unlikely Informant, chronicling his transformation from Scores co-founder to undercover FBI informant.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMichael\u2019s story has every ingredient audiences look for in a great film,\u201d said producer Vlahopoulos. \u201cIt\u2019s larger than life, deeply human, and filled with unbelievable twists that actually happened. From the glamour of New York nightlife to the dangers of working alongside the FBI, it\u2019s a story that deserves to be told on the big screen. We\u2019re excited to bring Michael\u2019s incredible story to audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tUNITED STATES \u2013 CIRCA 2001: Demi Moore at Scores New York, a topless dancing sports cabaret nighclub (Photo by John Roca\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Controversial New York strip-club Scores, the celebrity-frequented but troubled night spot, is getting its close-up via a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,6955],"class_list":["post-290592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}