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...something real. On the eve of Father's Day, these men are straight off a 1950s Hallmark card. These guys are guys. They're guyish. The model of their masculinity is definitely retro--stern dads in suits and ties, undemonstrative, matter-of-fact, but with alleged hearts of gold. They tend not to explain much, and they're not the best at intimate chats or hand-holding sessions. Like most dads from the 1950s, they also tend to foster adolescent rebellion. Think of Jim Jeffords as a neglected teenager, finally running away from home...
...strings or t-backs. Visitors leave their fancy hotels downtown and go to places with names like the Pink Pony, Tattletales and the Baby Doll Lounge. The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau Website even links to The Cheetah, billed as the best strip club in the nation. At the Gold Club, customers come by stretch limousine and stay for hour after hour...
...When testimony turned to oral sex, orgies and lesbian sex shows, a flushed bailiff joked that the thermostat might need adjusting. Former Gold Club manager Thomas Cicignano - nicknamed Ziggy - charged that Kaplan over several years "orchestrated" a series of sexual events involving professional athletes and other favored customers. With jurors and spectators leaning forward and journalists scribbling madly, Ziggy recounted a 1997 visit to the club by New York Knick Patrick Ewing and a couple of unnamed teammates. Kaplan took the players into a private room with "six to ten" dancers. "The girls were having a good time jumping...
...Antonio Davis, now a forward on the Toronto Raptors, does not deny that he once went to the Gold Club. But it was too loud, too dark and too packed. He says he left. "All these allegations are false. I love my wife dearly and it's very hurtful for her," Davis told TIME. "I've understood kids are looking up to me." When the father of six-year-old twins heard the allegations, he called his mother, mother-in-law and his lawyer, then, on Wednesday, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Cicignano. Still, he worries that his name...
...threatened a mistrial unless they stop bickering and move the case along. Future witnesses could speed up the pace. While prosecutors won't say when, at least four professional athletes, including Ewing, Terrell Davis and Atlanta Falcon Jamal Anderson, are expected to be called to reveal more about the Gold Club - and the underside of Atlanta. - With reporting by Mike Billips/Atlanta...