June 14, 2023

After 8 years, Milford strip club settles lawsuit with dancers

FILE PHOTO: Keepers Gentlemen's Club at 354 Woodmont Road on Tuesday, January 26, 2016. The club was sued by dancers saying they were not being paid the minimum wage.

FILE PHOTO: Keepers Gentlemen’s Club at 354 Woodmont Road on Tuesday, January 26, 2016. The club was sued by dancers saying they were not being paid the minimum wage.

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A hearing in the case had been scheduled for Monday morning on a request from the dancers’ lawyer to have a $200,000 judgment in the case taken from a land use settlement between the town of Stratford and Gus Curcio, a resident convicted of extortion in the 1980s who is also linked to the club.

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Krayeske would not discuss the specifics of the agreement Monday.

“The matter is settled,” he said, declining further comment. 

The settlement comes a month after a bankruptcy trustee in the case of Joseph Regensburger, a Fairfield man who was once president of the club, said he could not find any assets to satisfy the dancers’ claims, even though a Department of Justice lawyer has alleged the bankruptcy was a ruse designed to hide assets. 

The bankruptcy hearing had seemed to have left the former exotic dancers who sued the club in 2015 alleging wage theft years away from seeing a dime of

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