Stormy Daniels' Chicago Strip Club Shows Back On

CHICAGO, IL — A Chicago strip club's weekend shows featuring Stormy Daniels are back on after the venue announced Friday that her performances had been canceled because of a money dispute. Daniels had performed Thursday night at the Admiral Theatre in the Albany Park neighborhood, and she now will appear in four sold-out shows Friday and Saturday at the club.

The change comes after Daniels and Sam Cecola, the Admiral's owner, were able to agree on terms concerning revenue sharing connected with an audience meet-and-greet session following Thursday's show, according to the Chicago Tribune. Instead of participating in the post-performance photo op with customers, Daniels abruptly left the club, apologizing to those waiting in line to meet her.

"Sorry, I just got fired," she said as she left the building, according to the Chicago Reader.

Earlier Friday, Cecola told the Chicago Sun-Times that he pulled the plug on the remaining shows when Daniels broke her contract by walking out and that she wasn't fired. He had threatened to sue the porn star, who claims she was paid $130,000 to stay quiet about an alleged affair with President Donald Trump in 2006.

“I’m going to file a lawsuit next week," Cecola told the Sun-Times. "It’s going to be bigger than the suit she filed [against Trump and Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney].”

Daniels' performances at the Admiral were part of her national “Make America Horny Again” tour. Tickets for the sold-out shows were $30 to $50, but some were available online for as much as $600, the Reader reports. Fans also could pay $20 to meet Daniels for a photo and an autograph following her performance, something more than 7o people did for Thursday's show, the report added.

Before skipping out on her meet-and-greet, Daniels performed for 15 minutes, dancing naked in front of an American flag backdrop and presidential podium, according to reports. Her routine was followed by another dancer doing a Marilyn Monroe impression by singing "Happy Birthday" to a Trump impersonator in honor of the president's 72nd birthday Thursday.

But the strangest part of the show at the Admiral might well have been the makeup of the crowd, which included about a dozen senior citizens from a retirement home named, coincidentally, The Admiral at the Lake. They attended the show to show their support for Daniels for speaking out against Trump, according to the Sun-Times.

"I think she's a hero. I’m proud of her for bringing Trump down. I think that’s very noble," Sandra Simonson, one of the facility's residents, told the Chicago Tribune. Simonson did admit, however, that she found the performance boring.

“It’s a classier place than I would have thought," a 78-year-old resident at the retirement center told the Sun-Times. "I’m glad we came."

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