Prince pays strippers

Entertainment News - 06/10/06 - Neil Davey

Thu, Nov 30, 2006

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It’s all gone weird in the world of pop. Well, weirder. The whole natural order of pop life has been flipped on its head.

Prince - he of the raunchy videos, songs about sex acts and scantily clad, astonishingly fit backing dancers - has been paying Hollywood strippers… to leave their clothes ON.

According to soundgenerator.com, Prince kicked up a fuss recently while in a Hollywood strip bar, offering to pay ladies NOT to strip.

What next? Michael Jackson refuses plastic surgery? Ronan Keating records an original song? George Michael found awake in car?

The diminutive funker was at Xeni, a Hollywood strip bar - sorry, we mean “private membership community” - which hosts parties around California as well as staging concerts and late-night entertainment. This included some lap-dancers… and the newly Victorian Prince offered them double pay to stop dancing.

”It’s wrong to dance like that,” the wee purple fellah reportedly exclaimed. “What would your parents think if they could see you now? You're too good for this. You shouldn't be selling yourself so cheap," he squeaked.

“He doesn't drink, doesn't like the music and now doesn't like the dancers,” said one partygoer. “Nobody knows why he comes here.”

We couldn’t have put it better ourselves.