A married Democratic lawmaker in Kentucky is in sizzling water for his therapy of strippers and providing hundreds of {dollars} to have intercourse with at the very least one other.
The Lexington Herald-Chief reported Friday that freshman State Consultant Daniel Grossberg is credibly accused of sexually harassing and groping a number of strippers at a strip membership known as Cunning’s Gentlemens Membership whereas drunk, together with one occasion the place he additionally tried to seize one stripper by her genitals which induced the proprietor to ban him for all times.
Furthermore, the 45-year-old Grossberg additionally offered a dancer on the Louisville strip membership roughly $5,000 to have interaction in sexual activity with him about two weeks earlier than he was banned for all times.
Six sources revealed to the outlet that Grossberg was an everyday on the membership. He had already been kicked out a number of occasions for getting drunk and grabbing the dancers.
He then crossed the road additional when he grabbed a stripper’s underwear and tried to the touch her privates as she carried out on stage.
“He was calling ladies all types of names,” Foxys’ co-owner Milford Renfrow told the Herald-Chief. “Disrespecting the women and grabbing them.”
In accordance with the Herald-Chief, Grossberg visited Foxys for the ultimate time after the 2023 Christmas holidays. The night time he was banned, he tried to tug the ‘Have you learnt who I’m’ card and threatened to make use of his energy as a state official to close down the membership.
From the Hearld-Leader:
After a membership supervisor escorted Grossberg from the membership to its parking zone off Berry Boulevard, he tried to make use of his standing as a state legislator to get again in. When that failed, he warned he may shut down the 24-year-old strip membership.
“’You don’t know who I’m,’” the membership’s supervisor recollects Grossberg telling him. The freshman legislator additionally mentioned he “may shut this place down.”
The supervisor who kicked Grossberg out that night time mentioned he was not swayed by his menace and mentioned it was fallacious to “deal with ladies like this.”
Earlier than this newest information, Grossberg has been underneath investigation for a number of situations of inappropriate and sexist conduct. This consists of allegedly asking a younger feminine aide about her physique, her sexual historical past, and her sexual preferences whereas drunk.
Kentucky Democrats booted him from their social gathering caucus in response to those credible accusations. Democratic Governor Andy Beshear has additionally demanded that Grossberg resign from workplace.