Behind Chippendales' glam was a founder who orchestrated murder-for-hire plots
ABC News
Steve Banerjee pleaded guilty to racketeering and murder for hire in the '90s.
Former Chippendales performer Read Scot was having a good night in England at his new gig with male exotic dance troupe “Adonis” when all of a sudden one of the group’s founders came over and asked him to step off the stage, he said.
Scot said they walked over to a little office space in the theater Adonis was performing in -- a huge show in the Atlantic City-esque resort town of Blackpool, England -- and that’s when he learned his life was in danger.
"There are two gentlemen in suits, and they introduce themselves as FBI," said Scot. "[They] said, 'We believe someone is out to get you.'"
Scot said the FBI agents explained during that July 1991 conversation that they had intercepted a call, and they believed a hit had been put on him and two other Adonis members to be killed by cyanide injection.