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The FOX True Crime Podcast

The Gold Club: Mobsters, Money, and Multi-Million Dollar Schemes

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

To the public, Atlanta’s Gold Club was the ultimate playground for the rich and famous, from NBA All-Stars to Hollywood headliners. But behind the champagne and VIP booths, the feds discovered a racketeering engine fueled by fraud, prostitution, and Gambino crime family ties. Former FBI agent and Marine veteran Mark Sewell joins Chanley Painter to go inside the investigation of the most profitable strip club in America. Follow Chanley on Instagram: @ChanleySha Follow on Chanley X: @ChanleySPainter If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@fox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:01.5

It's an unusual name.

0:03.0

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

0:07.0

What game are we playing today?

0:09.0

Discover the origins.

0:10.0

It's cleaving. Those days are truly behind me.

0:12.0

Of crime's most iconic mind.

0:14.0

There has been a break-in.

0:17.0

Astoned. You should be a detective.

0:19.0

Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.

0:22.6

If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.

0:25.6

Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video. It was a neon-lit playground tucked away in Atlanta, filled with champagne and unreported

0:44.3

cash.

0:45.3

On any given night, you might see an NBA All-Star in a VIP booth, a Hollywood headliner

0:51.3

in the front row, and even a member from the Gambino crime family

0:55.2

watching it all from the shadows. To the public, the gold club was the ultimate hotspot for the

1:01.7

rich and famous. But to the feds, it was a racketeering engine fueled by fraud, corruption,

1:08.7

and an assortment of sexual favors used as currency.

1:12.8

I'm Chandley Painter, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

1:46.0

Thank you. In November 1999, the music came to a stop and the club lights got turned off.

1:52.5

Steve Kaplan, the club's charismatic owner, was indicted on a litany of federal charges.

1:58.5

Prosecutors painted a picture of a man who operated like a modern-day Michael Corleone,

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