A nightclub in Las Vegas closed over the weekend a month after the club was ordered to clean up its sex shows, according to NBC News. The club, called The Act, is located inside the Palazzo resort and casino.
Saturday night was the last night the club was opened, a spokeswoman for the Act confirmed.
No explanation for the closure was given, according to officials. However, the club had been engaged in a legal battle with its landlords over a show that contained simulated sex acts and performers throwing condoms into the audience.
The material is "what you and I and most decent people consider vulgar, depraved and perverted," Charles McCrea Jr, the attorney for Las Vegas Sands, said to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A ruling was issued in September by Clark County District Court Judge Susan Scann requiring the club to edit 13 out of 30 skits. According to the ruling, the skits aren't in accordance with The Act's lease agreement, which has a provision that allows Las Vegas Sands, the landlord, to remove tenants that go against the "first class" image they want to present.
According to The Act, the Las Vegas Sands was aware of the shows and that the explicit skits were inspired by even more explicit shows performed at the Box-NYC, a club in New York City.
"Before opening to the public and since that time, we worked diligently and successfully to ensure our performances were compliant with Clark County Code and the provisions of our lease," The Act's management wrote in a statement regarding the ruling in September. "Yet we now learn that LVS expected us to meet additional standards that were never defined or communicated to us, and which are contradictory to other provisions of our lease requiring that we operate similarly to The Box-NYC."
Video of one of the shows at The Act.
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