Stuart Cadwell is the supposed buyer of Crazy Horse Too. zg
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A gangland killing, lap dancers who are said to sell sex and the criminal past of the man behind the Spearmint Rhino empire
Evening Standard (London),
Sep 16, 2002 by CHRIS BLACKHURST
ON 21 August last year, Stuart Cadwell, boss of Spearmint Rhino UK, the country's biggest chain of lap-dancing clubs, left the company's Tottenham Court Road branch and headed home. It was 2am as he walked to a nearby car park. Suddenly, he was the victim of an attack which was vicious even by the standards of central London's increasingly mean streets at that time in the morning.
Two men came up behind, struck him on the head with a machete and knocked Mr Cadwell to the ground. He somehow fought back but was stabbed at least twice, one blow puncturing a lung. "He managed to crawl about 250 yards back to the club," said Max Clifford, Spearmint Rhino's publicist. Mr Cadwell was lucky: he was rushed to hospital and lived. His assailants made off with just pounds 60.
A year later, nobody has been charged for the crime. Another victim of an unprovoked assault?
The police don't think so. They suspect this was no ordinary street robbery, that Mr Cadwell was targeted by associates of a notorious north London crime family in a feud with his company.
For Mr Cadwell, having to deal with police questions was not a new experience. In September 1990, a woman was taking a ride with him in his helicopter in California.
Macy Rahgozar, 21, was the girlfriend of David Amos, a close friend of Mr Cadwell. She stepped out of the helicopter as it stood on the tarmac at Long Beach Airport to greet Mr Amos, who was waiting for her, and walked into the still turning tail rotor blades. Ms Rahgozar suffered massive head injuries and died.
A police investigation concluded the death was an accident.
Last year, Mr Amos was convicted of the m a c h i n e - g u n killing of a strip club boss in Los Angeles in 1989 - the year before the helicopter tragedy - and jailed. Mr Amos, who was close to a member of the Bonanno mafia family in New York, had paid a hitman to shoot Horace McKenna at his home.
Welcome to the seedy underbelly of Spearmint Rhino.
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