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Harvey Weinstein is a member of the Core Club, which is entered through an unmarked door on East 55th Street and Madison Avenue.
The club costs $50,000 to join and then $15,000 annually.
Harvard Club. Business Insider
The Century Association (above) is located in New York at 43rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Its members have included Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor Bloomberg, Tina Brown, Brooke Astor, Henry Kissinger, Robert Morgenthau, David Rockefeller and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Bohemian Grove (above) is a club which has reportedly employed prostitutes of both sexes.
A map of Ladies and Gentlemen's Clubs of the West End of London, c.1910. Click to enlarge
They "had started as dining societies ...They often provided a front for illicit gambling...
"Some venues offered idiosyncratic services to their members, not least the Cocoa Tree Club on St James’s Street, which ... had a brothel on the premises.
"Unsurprisingly, those MPs who belonged to it strenuously denied their membership."
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Seth Alexander Thévoz has studied Victorian clubs in London’s West End.
"Some venues offered idiosyncratic services to their members, not least the Cocoa Tree Club on St James’s Street, which ... had a brothel on the premises.
"Unsurprisingly, those MPs who belonged to it strenuously denied their membership."
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Cleveland Street had a 'club' that was a gay brothel.
Gay brothels "were ten a penny in the Victorian era."
The clientèle of the gay brothel on London's Cleveland Street reportedly included the heir to the throne, plus a Duke and an Earl.
"Memoirs and letters of the period are full of affairs with such boys; Wilde's boyfriend Lord Alfred Douglas practically specialized in collecting telegraph boys, and many of his friends followed suit..."
Royal Overseas Club, London.
"His first wife Gladys, I learnt, died in the Overseas Club after some sort of occult misadventure in which the notorious Aleister Crowley was involved - certainly I'd never been willing to enquire too deeply into that incident."
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On 10 October 2012, the Royal couple William and Kate ... went to a party at the exclusive London private members club Loulou's in Mayfair with other guests including the Duchess of Cambridge's sister Pippa and the Duke's cousin Princess Eugenie.
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"Robin Birley, heir to the London club empire of Mark’s, Harry’s Bar and Annabel’s, recently opened Loulou's... Birley trusted Rifat Ozbek with the £30 million renovation of the former Tiddy Dols, a high-end brothel."
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"The National Enquirer quotes a source from My Trusty Royal Spy that says, 'Rumors and press reports have circulated for years that Kate cavorted at kinky masked balls for upper-class types staged by private school chum Emma Sayle, organizer of a sex club called Killing Kittens.'"
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In Northern Europe, there are private clubs in regular neighorhoods, often not recognizable as brothels from the outside.
Some underage girls and boys have been forced or manipulated into the sex trade.
A club (above) used as a brothel in Australia. www.altmedia.net.au
"Over the years it has boasted a membership of presidents, world leaders and celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks and offers fine dining in decadent surroundings at the heart of Disneyland - at a hefty price."
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