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#30. Roselyn Keo - The Hustlers Scheme
This is the story of Roselyn Keo who led the hustlers scheme where strippers drugged men and charged thousands on their credit cards.
In Dec 2015, New York magazine’s contributing editor Jessica Pressler wrote an award-winning story "The Hustlers at Scores." This was after interviewing Roselyn Keo ‘Rosie,’ one of the two ringleaders of the New York strip club scam.
Who is Roselyn Keo aka ‘Rosie’
Roselyn Keo was born in 1984 in Rockland County, New York, United States.
In the 2015 interview with journalist Jessica Pressler, Rosie, then 31, claimed that her parents’ had left her and her brother with elderly grandparents and taken off to Atlantic City when she was young. Her parents, Cambodian refugees, had come to America hoping for a better life but things didn’t work out as they’d expected. They “got caught up with the, you know, material crap, and the nice cars, and the nightlife…and just somewhere, they went wrong,” Rosie said.
Rosie dropped out of school in her teens and, at 17, took a job at the New City Diner, an eatery in Nanuet. While working there one night, a manager at Lace [a nearby gentlemen’s club] gave her a $20 tip on a $20 check and suggested she come by if she was interested in making more money.
She went to Lace the next day, lied about her age, and landed a job. She made $500 to $1,000 a night. But the real money, she knew, was in Manhattan. Soon, she started driving her used Honda into the city, to Flash Dancers in Times Square and Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club. Which is where she met Samantha Foxx.
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