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Exec Sues Over $28,000 Strip Club Tab

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Exec Sues Over $28,000 Strip Club Tab

MAY 20--Faced with a whopping $28,021 bill from a Manhattan strip joint, a business executive has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was grossly overcharged for a recent lap dance and Champagne bacchanal. In a State Supreme Court lawsuit, a copy of which you'll find below, Mitchell Blaser alleges that he is being swindled by Scores, Gotham's leading gentlemen's club. Blaser, 53, was partying with a pal last December and racking up the lap dances and very pricey bubbly (he expected an American Express bill in the two grand range). But the club says that Blaser ran up the 28k tab by ordering five magnums of Clos Du Mesnil Champagne, at $3,200 a bottle, and partaking in hundreds of $20 lap dances. Scores contends that Blaser, chief financial officer for the American division of the giant Swiss Re insurance outfit, signed receipts for every purchase. (8 pages)