Topic summary
Somen Banerjee
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Steve Banerjee.
Biography
Somen Banerjee was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on October 8, 1946, to Bengali parents. He moved to the United States, anglicising his name to Steve Banerjee, where he operated a Mobil gas station and afterward a failed backgammon club. Banerjee bought a failed Los Angeles club named "Destiny II" and turned it into a nightclub that featured female mud wrestling and a "Female Exotic Dancing Night." The 1979 addition of a male stripper dance troupe performing to target female audiences was the first of its kind in the United States. Banerjee married his accountant, Irene, in the 1980s. They had two children — daughter Lindsay and son Christian.