Jack Galardi: Strip club kingpin (1931-2012)

12/4/12

Family members are planning a weekend memorial service for a strip club kingpin whose empire stretched from Las Vegas to Miami.

LAS VEGAS — Teri Galardi tells the Associated Press her father Jack Galardi died Saturday at his ranch in Georgia, after health complications in recent years. He was 81.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the Korean War veteran at one point owned 30 topless cabarets, and owned nine at the time of his death.

His daughter said the self-made man was "generous almost to a fault," and known to pay medical bills for people who couldn't afford treatment.

He suffered fallout when his adopted son, Michael Galardi, was implicated in a corruption case that sent four former Clark County Commissioners to prison in 2006. Jack Galardi was not implicated the case.

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