Larry Jones owns The Gallery and Diamond Girls.
Is he the same Larry Jones who served as Interim Director of the Durham Housing Authority?
A records search of the N&O archives shows only ONE mention of the Platinum.
June 9, 2006 News & Observer, Filing disputes lacrosse probe, Joseph Neff, Anne Blythe Staff Writers Lead
When Durham police and prosecutors asked a judge for permission to collect photos and DNA from 46 Duke University lacrosse players, they said a woman had reported being beaten, choked and gang-raped at a team party. But defense lawyers said in a court filing Thursday that police ....
Two days before the party, Johnson said he drove the woman to an hourlong appointment at the Holiday Inn Express in Wakefield. At 11 p.m., Johnson said, he drove her to Platinum, a strip club in Hillsborough. The woman twice asked him to stay another hour, he wrote. At 4:30 a.m., Johnson said, he drove her to an hourlong job at the Millennium Hotel near Duke University.
* Why don't these reporters get off their duffs and do some REAL investigative journalism?