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11-11-2001, 11:26 AM
Doc Buys Strip Club for Research Funds
By ANGIE WAGNER
.c The Associated Press
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - A renowned cardiovascular surgeon has bought an
all-nude club and cabaret, saying the cash from his new venture will help pay
for medical research.
Dr. Simon Stertzer of Stanford University is the new owner of the Palomino
Club and an adjacent cabaret along a seedy strip of Las Vegas Boulevard.
``Whatever will provide cash flow will do,'' Stertzer told the North Las
Vegas City Council before it approved his business license application Sept.
5.
Stertzer performed the first coronary angioplasty in the country at New
York's Lenox Hill Hospital in 1978, hospital spokeswoman Ann Silverman said.
He has previously used revenue from business investments to pay for research.
In the early 1990s, he co-founded a company that produces medical
instruments, then later sold it. From the sale, Stertzer donated $2 million
to endow a chair at Stanford Medical Center's cardiology division, the school
said. He also owns some land in Las Vegas where a car repair business is
located.
``I think it is a little unusual to finance your endeavor through this
means,'' Councilwoman Stephanie Smith said. ``I think some people would find
it disconcerting.''
The university has received no indication Stertzer's profits from the strip
club would help fund medical research at Stanford, Ted Tussing, a spokesman
for Stanford's School of Medicine, said Thursday.
Stertzer did not return repeated phone calls to his office and the club.
``There are people that do a whole host of things to support research, but
this is unusual,'' said Tony Mazzaschi, associate vice president for research
at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. ``I've
not heard of anything like this before.''
Mark Nicolepti, the Las Vegas lawyer who helped work on the club sale, said
Stertzer was interested in the land and ``there just happens to be these
clubs on it.''
Nicolepti said Stertzer is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the
club and rarely visits. ``Business is as great as ever,'' he said.
The Palomino Club is the only all-nude club that serves liquor in Clark
County.
``I say it's different, that's for sure,'' council member William Robinson
said. ``Let's say we don't get this kind of thing every day, even in Vegas.''
AP-NY-11-08-01 2018EST
By ANGIE WAGNER
.c The Associated Press
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - A renowned cardiovascular surgeon has bought an
all-nude club and cabaret, saying the cash from his new venture will help pay
for medical research.
Dr. Simon Stertzer of Stanford University is the new owner of the Palomino
Club and an adjacent cabaret along a seedy strip of Las Vegas Boulevard.
``Whatever will provide cash flow will do,'' Stertzer told the North Las
Vegas City Council before it approved his business license application Sept.
5.
Stertzer performed the first coronary angioplasty in the country at New
York's Lenox Hill Hospital in 1978, hospital spokeswoman Ann Silverman said.
He has previously used revenue from business investments to pay for research.
In the early 1990s, he co-founded a company that produces medical
instruments, then later sold it. From the sale, Stertzer donated $2 million
to endow a chair at Stanford Medical Center's cardiology division, the school
said. He also owns some land in Las Vegas where a car repair business is
located.
``I think it is a little unusual to finance your endeavor through this
means,'' Councilwoman Stephanie Smith said. ``I think some people would find
it disconcerting.''
The university has received no indication Stertzer's profits from the strip
club would help fund medical research at Stanford, Ted Tussing, a spokesman
for Stanford's School of Medicine, said Thursday.
Stertzer did not return repeated phone calls to his office and the club.
``There are people that do a whole host of things to support research, but
this is unusual,'' said Tony Mazzaschi, associate vice president for research
at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. ``I've
not heard of anything like this before.''
Mark Nicolepti, the Las Vegas lawyer who helped work on the club sale, said
Stertzer was interested in the land and ``there just happens to be these
clubs on it.''
Nicolepti said Stertzer is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the
club and rarely visits. ``Business is as great as ever,'' he said.
The Palomino Club is the only all-nude club that serves liquor in Clark
County.
``I say it's different, that's for sure,'' council member William Robinson
said. ``Let's say we don't get this kind of thing every day, even in Vegas.''
AP-NY-11-08-01 2018EST