Sydney Escorts: Retailer ditches web sex toys for brothel
August 18, 2010
It announced yesterday a $20 million takeover deal for a Sydney brothel in a backdoor listing.
The company is set to buy the Stiletto brothel in the inner-west suburb of Camperdown, where clients can experience a “unique mixture of style, sex and theatre” for $200 a half-hour.
Rooms range from the Betty Boob, which is furnished with a large round bed and mirrors, to the Roman Orgy, which has a plunge pool, and the Royal Suite, which features a pole-dancing stage and pool table.
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However, the company may be forced to restructure its operations to distance the listed entity from the business of selling sex, as Melbourne brothel The Daily Planet did when it listed in 2003.
With brothel owners required to be licensed by state authorities, shareholders, being unlicensed, can own part of an investment vehicle or property trust that earns income from the brothel, but not the business itself.
Call them strange bedfellows but Blackfeather Ltd and AdultShop.com (ASC), both firms catering to adult entertainment needs, are set to collaborate on a steamy deal as ASC announced on Tuesday that it is taking over Blackfeather’s Stiletto brothel operation.
In exchange for $20 million worth of ASC shares, priced at 21 cents each, AdultShop would take ownership of the Sydney-based Stiletto in a merger that would see a capital raising of $10 million aimed at sophisticated and professional investors.
In its statement, AdultShop said that the proposed merger “will be inter-conditional and will not be completed unless each other stage is completed,” as it added that the deal would be subject to approval by ASC shareholders.
As a result of the deal, the ASC board said that company shares were pushed up to a value of 2.5 cents per share as it emerged from a trading halt on Tuesday and by 1036 AEST on the same day, the shares were trading at 1.3 cents.
Sydney Escorts: Adultshop.com to buy Sydney brothels
August 18, 2010
MALCOLM Day’s Adultshop.com is moving into the Sydney brothel market via a complex acquisition and change of structure.
The company, which put up an official for sale sign up in February after seeing off a takeover move from Sexyland, announced this morning the acquisition of Blackfeather Limited’s bordello business Stiletto for about $20 million in stock.
Also on Adultshop.com’s agenda is a one-for-eight stock consolidation of its registry to reduce the number of shares to about 77 million and a placement to sophisticated investors to raise $10m.Adultshop.com also plans a buyback of all shares at 21 cents apiece — excluding the 95 million shares to be issued to Blackfeather and the 47.6 million share from the placement — following approval of the strategy, allowing suffering shareholders an exit from the struggling stock.
Sydney Escorts: Man jailed for killing baby while on parole
August 18, 2010
A man has been jailed for at least ten-and-a-half years for shaking a baby to death in Sydney’s west.
The 35-year-old man, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of the little boy at a house in Blacktown in 2007.
The New South Wales Supreme Court heard that he had been living with the baby’s mother for six months and assaulted the baby several times.
It heard that one night, after coming home drunk, he shook the baby violently, choked and punched him and stomped on his chest.
In sentencing him to at least ten-and-a-half years in jail and a maximum term of 14-and-a-half-years, Justice Peter Hidden said the attack was brutal.
He said the man had killed before, previously getting a seven and a half year sentence for shooting a man he did not know in a Kingswood brothel.
See the full article from “ABC Online”
Sydney Escorts: Finally, a Fresh Take on Sightseeing in Sydney
August 18, 2010
Activity Tours Australia (www.activitytours.com.au/sydney_day_tours.html (http://www.activitytours.com.au/sydney_day_tours.html)) has been operating great value day tours from Sydney for over ten years and has developed two new half day tours of the sights of Sydney. Each tour focuses on different highlights to provide distinct choices that can easily be linked for a complete full day tour.
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It continues past the numerous historical buildings down to the magnificent views of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour from Mrs Macquaries Chair. The next stop is Woolloomooloo, along the golden mile in the red light district of King Cross, and back through Darlinghurst and Hyde Park and into the City. There are plenty of photo opportunities and chances to get off the bus to explore many highlights on the way.
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With great passenger feedback, highly competitive prices from $54 per adult, and the convenience of 24 x 7 booking online or over the phone, its easy to see why Activity Tours Australia is a small tour provider on the rise around Sydney.
By Pauline Askin SYDNEY | Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:55am EDT
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Former Australian detective Deborah Locke’s life became a living nightmare after she blew the cover on police corruption but the steely 46-year-old says it was worthwhile if people remember her and follow her lead.
It’s been 14 years since Locke was discharged “medically unfit” from the police force in the state of New South Wales and more than 15 years since she went to authorities to give details of a “one-in-all-in” culture of bribery among police colleagues.
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This year she has published the second edition of her book “Watching the Detectives” and was also portrayed in a new series of the popular Australian TV crime drama “Underbelly” set in 1989 in Sydney’s red light district, Kings Cross.
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Hard-drinking detectives regularly mingled with criminals and corruption was seen by some as part of daily policing to keep strip clubs owners, pimps, and drug lords under control.
See the full article from “Reuters”
Sydney Strip Clubs: Renault’s 12-second strip-tease challenge for it’s brand new car in UK
August 17, 2010
Sydney, Aug 17 (ANI): French manufacturer Renault’s UK branch has set up a challenge that could see thousands of people stripping off their clothes in the hope of winning a brand new car.
See the full article from “Oneindia”
AS Big Jim’s personal Boeing 737-7BC taxied to a halt in Sydney early on Thursday morning, 1200 senior executives were waiting.
They were assembling at the Hilton for the SAS business forum, with Dr Jim Goodnight the star attraction.
It was the SAS founder and chief executive’s first visit to Australia in 12 years, but it was brief.
Dr Goodnight was back on board his palatial jet — reputedly fitted out like a gentlemen’s club — and heading home the same day.
But the importance of his visit was not lost on SAS staffers and customers: business in Australia and New Zealand is extremely brisk for the data analytics leader.
Local software revenues were up by 20 per cent in the first half of this year, while sales of customer intelligence systems were 50 per cent higher than the same period a year earlier. In Canberra, SAS Australia holds long-running software and services contracts with Centrelink, Medicare, Health and the Federal Police, along with a slew of smaller agencies. In June, SAS signed a new $5.5 million three-year contract with the Tax Office, and in April a $2.8m three-year contract with Defence.
Sydney Adult Entertainment: Explosive report clears Tony Zappia
August 14, 2010
Lambie also looked into claims of sex toys being distributed at training, prostitutes in the changerooms and pornographic emails being circulated through the workplace.
After questioning 26 former and current Sharks staff, Lambie concluded that Zappia’s punch to Hall’s face on August 9, 2008, was accidental. The finding was unanimously supported by football and administrative staff who spoke to Hall immediately after the incident, and who felt her story changed because of a verbal confrontation with Zappia on the same night.
A female employee in the Sharks office at the time Zappia and Hall were shadow boxing described the mood as jovial afterwards. But she claimed Hall was visibly upset later that evening – the night of Cronulla’s round 22 win over Souths – after Zappia rebuked her for telling other staff about the punch.
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He also concluded that allegations of “prostitutes” in the home changerooms after the round 19, 2008, clash against Newcastle were motivated by Hall. The women were corporate guests who represented the alcohol industry.
See the full article from “Herald Sun”
Sydney Strip Clubs: Music eases pain for Tamara Jaber after Kyle Sandilands break-up
August 14, 2010
Tough week … Tamara Jaber in Sydney yesterday (main picture); dancer Nicole White (inset, above) and Kyle Sandilands. Source: The Daily Telegraph
POP star Tamara Jaber says she’s had a terrible week since learning her estranged shock-jock husband Kyle Sandilands has been romantically linked to an exotic dancer.
“It’s been tough, but I’m coping,” Jaber told The Sunday Telegraph yesterday.
Referring to Sandilands’ rumoured affair with a 22-year-old dancer from Los Angeles gentlemen’s club Plan B, Jaber, 28, said she was trying to bury herself in music.
“Music is my escape. It takes me away from real life and enables me to lose myself in great, emotive songs. I’m focusing all my attention on Dancing With The Stars.”
Although the couple announced their split only last month, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal Jaber separated from Sandilands last November – just 14 months after they wed.