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Okay, Tom, I'm going to ask you a question.

Please do.

Do you think they go down for this?

Interesting question.

Assuming that what they're being charged with is millions of pounds worth of tax fraud. Yeah. I'm going to go, yes, but maybe not as long as you imagine. So I'm going to go for a four-year sentence. You're going to go for a four-year sentence. Okay. That's what I'm putting my money on. Yeah. So they plead guilty. Oh. Charges. Okay. Skimming $2.5 million and admitting two counts of tax evasion.

Yes.

And Judge Richard Owen, people are surprised because he goes with the maximum penalty.

Oh, does it? Which is three and a half years and $20,000 in fines, which, let's be honest, $20,000 not touching the sides, is it? Yeah, yeah. I love that. It's a bit like when a footballer gets in trouble for missing training and then his charge, you know, you read the fine is like one and a half thousand pounds or two thousand pounds of the club. It's like, what is that? They're on 150,000 pounds a week. We know how much they've skimmed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So three and a half years, isn't a million? That's quite close to my suggestion. Three and a half years. So that is January 1979. They've not even been open two years at this point. Yeah. So they're going to go to prison in February. So they have one last party the night before going to prison. Amazing, yeah.

It's billed as the end of modern day Gamora, right?

Yeah.

And there's 2,000 of Studio 54's most faithful, including...

And are they seeing this as the final party at Studio 54, or will it be...

No, it's going to carry on.

It's going to carry on without them.

With Sam Allardyceived up overseeing it for the next couple of years.

Yeah.

So interim.

You don't want to see him in the rubber room, do you?

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