Montreal's oldest stripper

Oscar Wilde once wrote of a character who had, "the only two things that matter: youth and beauty." Well at a strip club on the Main one dancer has something much more impressive: durability. According to a recent court document, Cleo's on St. Lawrence south of St. Cat has a stripper aged 62.

   The owner, Johnny Zoumbalakis seems quite proud of this and even boasts that he rarely hires dancers aged under their late 20s. He says that tourists come in and complain that the dancers "look like their grandmothers."

  Zoumbalakis, who has owned the establishment since 1985, having married the owner's daughter after working as a barman for 9 years prior, made the comments at a liquor license hearing. He had allowed a girl under 18 to work for him and two young men shy of 18 were found sitting near the stage on another occasion. Another time another girl under 18 was carted off, tried to escape police and spat in an officer's face. Feisty!

   The owner impressed the RACJ sufficiently to avoid a license suspension, as they noted that he cooperates with police about organized crime. (Which is not to say that he's a narc or police informant, but it is not to say that he isn't either). 

  As the report notes, he did not have is license suspended. Customers might be a little less impressed with his comments, however.