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True Crime Vault: The Hustlers

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The real-life story that inspired a hit movie. Strip club workers take business into their own hands – going as far as conspiring to drug male targets and fleece them for all they could. What caused these women to cross over to a life of crime? Originally broadcast 09/13/2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody it's Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020. We're bringing you more

0:05.1

2020 each week with the 2020 true-crime vault. That's right you're going to

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hear a story pulled from our archives shows that we just can't seem to get out of our heads, and

0:16.0

we think you're going to be drawn in too.

0:18.0

Thanks for listening.

0:20.0

Coming up.

0:25.0

For strippers in Manhattan and Queens.

0:27.0

Who accused of drugging customers.

0:29.0

This story is sex strippers drugs and rich guys I mean it's made for tablets I heard it was going to be made to a movie

0:38.5

from Groen Grokerker

0:40.1

Wold's off I knew I had a movie.

0:43.0

A group of women who were working in strip clubs in and around New York City.

0:49.0

The game is rigged and it does not reward people who play by the rules. This is a story about my life and how things got crazy. I wouldn't say we were evil. Con women, you could say that.

1:07.0

I'm a business woman. I was just in the wrong business.

1:11.0

These women would call themselves entrepreneurs.

1:13.7

The police, they'd call him criminals.

1:16.3

Are you married?

1:18.0

Oh, that's sad.

1:19.5

In order to make the scam work, they needed the men to be almost knocked unconscious.

1:25.6

I needed him a lump of money.

1:28.6

He got to the videos.

1:29.6

Men would wake up the next morning and discover that not only did they spend more than they thought,

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