The Gold Club is also a famous strip club in Atlanta, GA, run by Steve Kaplan until he entered into a plea bargain agreement in a racketeering trial on August 2, 2001. While the case accused Kaplan and six co-defendants of various forms of fraud, bribery, and consorting with the Gambino crime family, the charges which drew the most media attention centered on Kaplan paying his dancers to have sex with professional athletes and other celebrity clientele, both on and off Gold Club property. Despite the club's strong ties to the Gambinos, acting boss John "Junior" Gotti was never implicated. Had Kaplan been convicted on all 42 original charges, he would have faced up to 195 years behind bars.