David Price Sr. He was sentenced last year to 20 years in prison. Two others, Rashid Bounds and Christopher Saunders, were convicted in the drug operation and are serving 17 and a half years each. Skip to content. Kyle Rittenhouse 14 mins ago. Tornado 25 mins ago. Back to Article. As the investigation widened, undercover agents were soon swarming Limelight, some, he writes in the book, dressed in highly unconvincing drag, or wearing dog collars.
Even so, the government found a way to get rid of him, deporting him to Toronto in after his guilty plea to state tax evasion charges. He paid some club employees in cash.
On visits to New York in the ensuing years, he has made a point of avoiding the former Limelight church, which over the years has housed boutiques, restaurants and a gym. While he has entertained the idea of getting an investment group together and creating a boutique hotel, with the Limelight building as the lobby, he will never return to the nightclub business, he said. Skip to content. Peter Gatien in Toronto, March 19, With his memoir, "The Club King," published on April 1, Gatien hopes for a degree of catharsis after an epic rise and fall, but also to celebrate a lost New York, when clubs felt mysterious and transgressive, luring the misfits and outcasts from the city's creative underground, and every night felt like a Mardi Gras on Mars.
End of the Party. Over the past two decades, he has certainly accomplished that. But his cultural imprint remains. I was the guy in the eye patch. An Empire of Excess. It would not last, however. None of it would. Losing It All. Nonetheless, his own drug use was starting to spiral. Latest Featured. Most Read. In the end, they entertain each other. Gatien found success in his adopted city, but he did not find universal love. The Tunnel, too, served as a clubhouse for a marginalized population in need of one, he said.
Located in a neighborhood that was then an industrial backwater, the club provided a safe space in downtown Manhattan for large groups of young African-Americans. With Funkmaster Flex wrangling talent, big names including Dr. And they played for free, Mr. Gatien said, because, well, it was Sunday night at the Tunnel.
It was the days before bottle service, and the Tunnel was also a place for the elites of rap to scale the heights of conspicuous consumption. Leaning over the massive bar at the center of the room, Sean Combs and Jermaine Dupri used to compete to see who could line up more empty Cristal bottles, Mr.
Gatien writes in the book. And when everybody was leaving the place, there were so many smiles. Was it looser than anywhere else in town? No, absolutely not. Gatien, who was then living with Alessandra and his two daughters in a handsome townhouse on East 63rd Street, off Fifth Avenue, made a point of staying clean during work hours.
But he eventually succumbed to the temptation and business pressures. When police raided the Limelight in the fall of , his empire was living on borrowed time. As the investigation widened, undercover agents were soon swarming Limelight, some, he writes in the book, dressed in highly unconvincing drag, or wearing dog collars. After his arrest, the legal odyssey lasted two and a half years until he was acquitted of all drug charges in
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