Carmen Electra Is NOT A Stripper

Wikipedia describes Tara Leigh Patrick, professionally known as Carmen Electra, as an "American model, actress, television personality, singer and dancer." Some may remember her for her star turn as Lani McKenzie on Baywatch; others for her numerous appearances in Playboy. To me, she will always be the lucky winner of life's lottery because, in the early 2000s, she got to marry Dave Navarro, the sublime guitarist for Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. At the time, I suspected sorcery. What else could explain their utterly mystifying union - documented on MTV's strangely compelling (to me, at least) re+ality series Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave? The heart wants what it wants, I suppose. (And, of course, Dave had never met me.)

Fast forward nearly two decades, and now Ms. Electra is a plaintiff, along with ten other professional models (including English glamour model Lucy Pinder), in a lawsuit against the operators of the Mynx Cabaret, a strip club with locations in Groton and Hartford, Connecticut. This is one of a series of lawsuits brought by Ms. Electra and others against gentlemen's clubs across the country, including in Massachusetts, Las Vegas, Denver and northeastern Ohio.

I have not patronized either Mynx location; however, by visiting the club's website, I learned that the Mynx cabaret is the "premier adult entertainment venue in the NorthEast [sic] region" and that it has been "awarded best gentleman's club year after year." (The site does not identify the organization that bestowed these annual honors.) The reviews on Yelp, however, tell a somewhat different story. Mynx Groton garners a mere two stars (with 11 reviews) and Mynx Hartford scores two and one-half stars (with 21 reviews). This review of the Mynx Hartford tells you everything you need to know about that club (and, possibly unintentionally, some of its clientele):

This place was the worst strip club i ever been to. it was so boring. the bad music was bad. the watered down drinks didn't help. the girls are decent i guess, nothing special. just don't come here unless you want to waste your money. i left after getting 4 drinks i'm completely sober. i'm a man who likes to forget his nights at the strip club for all the right reasons. but this didn't get me there.

In their complaint, the plaintiffs allege that the defendants used photos of them, without authorization, to promote the clubs on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Specifically, the...