Tampa Strip Clubs: FL’s Jeff Greene "Not a Partier"
August 16, 2010On Friday, Greene fielded questions at a press conference in Tallahassee about allegations from former deckhands that his yacht had hosted lurid parties more reminiscent of Jersey Shore than peaceful Caribbean cruises. As the St. Petersburg Times reports, a former employee on Greene’s yacht, Summerwind, claimed the yacht “is known to be a party yacht. When it went to Cuba, everybody talked about the vomit caked all over the sides from all the partying going on.” The paper cites a vignette from Gregory Zuckerman’s book, The Greatest Trade Ever:
“Greene brought two Ukrainian strippers on board to make a cameo appearance and hired stewardesses from coastal towns to serve as his crew. Some doubled as massage therapists, which came in handy after a day of scuba diving, Jet Skiing, or kayaking.”
Greene’s campaign has repeatedly denied these stories or corrected them; a campaign spokesperson, for instance, told the St. Pete Times that “Jeff was traveling on his boat with his rabbi and his younger brother to visit Jewish sites in Romania and Odessa” and was not bringing strippers on board. And at Friday’s press conference, Greene himself insisted that he’s “not a partier”:
See the full article from “Mother Jones”