Portland, Oregon – Serial strip club owner Frank Faillace touched another man inappropriately at a strip club before his security guard grabbed the victim’s arm hard enough to leave him with an ugly bruise. Then the bouncer kicked the victim out before pulling a large Bowie knife as the pair stalked the victim down the street harassing and falsely accusing him of being a Proud Boy while claiming to be on the phone with the police.
Customer Criticized Club Owner Online
Mr. Faillace’s technical assault of the customer was motivated by things he’d posted online after becoming dissatisfied with one of Faillace’s policies. Faillace’s staff have been requiring customers to submit their IDs for scanning as a prerequisite for entering his clubs. Unlike local supermarkets which only store your date of birth for age verification purposes when scanning your ID to buy alcohol, Faillace’s clubs scan the front of your ID and store the resulting image featuring your picture, address, and name in a database. The bouncers typically don’t tell the customers that their ID will be scanned unless they ask. What seems like a normal ID check for age verification purposes results in the front of your ID being scanned and the results being stored in a database. The dancers claim this is necessary just in case you misbehave so that you can’t just go on over to a different club. You can learn more about this gross violation of consumers privacy on Medium.
Faillace Follows Customer on Twitter
The customer created a Twitter account to further promote his consumer privacy rights advocacy which Faillace quickly followed. Faillace also posted a sketchy reply trying to meetup with the customer.
Customer Unknowingly Visits Club Owned by Faillace Associate
The customer went out partying with some friends last Saturday night and after getting really wasted they suggested going to a strip club. They were aware of the dispute between the customer and one strip club owner so they didn’t mind when the customer said he’d only visit clubs not owned by that guy. X Exotic Lounge in downtown Portland is listed in business records as being owned by Aphrodite Entertainment LLC which is owned by local attorney Donald P. Roach and somebody named Manish Patel. Roach and Patel are listed as co-owners of another business with Frank Faillace called Athena Entertainment LLC.
Donald P. Roach is a 73 year old resident of Portland, Oregon. He is a registered Democrat and active member of the Oregon State Bar (#753174). You can learn more about Donald P. Roach Attorney at Law from the Oregon State Bar.
Manish M. Patel is a 45 year old resident of Happy Valley, Oregon. According to the Secretary of State’s website he co-owns several adult businesses with Faillace but also owns some iconic local brands like Portland Meadows which is co-owned by Artemis Entertainment which is co-owned by Faillace. In 2008, Patel registered to vote as a Republican using the address of a sleazy fleabag motel on 82nd Avenue in a part of Portland known as “Felony Flats.” 82nd Avenue in general has been a notorious hotbed for prostitution since at least the 1980s. Motels on 82nd Avenue typically rent rooms by the hour and/or offer cheap nightly rates. If you see a couple entering a room one of them is probably a prostitute. He has used that address for multiple businesses of his. The victim wonders how Patel feels about having to register his party affiliation and an associated address with the government in a database accessible by the general public just to vote?
The address above belongs to the Aaron Motel seen below. Notice how it offers weekly rates, the neon office sign is partially burnt out, and it just looks generally awful. Nobody moves into a place like that for a week unless they’re broke or setting up a prostitution shop. That same address is registered with the state as the mailing address for Athena Entertainment which as mentioned already is co-owned by Frank Faillace. What kind of strip club owners also own sleazy motels in high prostitution areas?
Stripper Setup?
After the victim had a few too many he started asking a stripper he recognized from the internet about Faillace. Elle Stanger is a social media influencer, writer, porn star, and stripper. The victim first became aware of her existence a couple years ago when she badmouthed an acquaintance of his online.
The victim never mentioned his old acquaintance but instead focused on current events. He’d recognized her on followers lists on Twitter belonging to clubs run by Faillace while researching his organization, remembered what she’d said in the past, and followed her account. Coincidentally she Tweeted that she’d be at X Lounge that night, but the customer hadn’t been following her closely so he had no idea she would be there. When he recognized her, he didn’t say anything at first but after getting shit drunk finally starting asking her questions about Faillace.
A few minutes later she tried to sell him a private dance but he said “no thanks.” She entertained the customer’s questions the best she could without providing anyone with bad quotes to use against her boss. It was pretty obvious according to the customer’s friend that she was trying to keep him there for some reason. In hindsight, the only reasonable explanations for what happened next are that Elle Stanger a.k.a. Danielle Lynn Stanger of Vancouver, Washington, contacted Faillace and told him the customer was there or she said something to another staff member who then contacted Faillace.
Elle Stanger made the mistake of using her real name to promote her work in a stigmatized industry. Her Facebook vanity URL is https://www.facebook.com/ellelynnstanger which is simply her full name with the first 4 letters omitted from her first name. There aren’t many names that Elle is short for, so seeing one of those names pop up in background check results for Lynn Stanger in the Portland area was all it took to find a match. The victim in this case can relate because he once used his real name to promote work he performed in a different yet also stigmatized industry.
Faillace Attacks Customer!
While the victim was standing at the bar minding his own business, a Skeletor like figure emerged from the darkness looking like he hadn’t slept in a millennia. The man went straight for the customer before immediately touching him inappropriately by punching him in the right shoulder. One witness reported seeing Faillace throw the punch before the bouncer grabbed the victim inappropriately. Faillace accused the customer of doxxing him, the customer having never actually seen him before asked who he was which just pissed him off further, “you known damn well who I am!” The customer left the establishment but instead of simply letting him leave, Faillace recruited the bouncer to back him up while they followed their victim for several blocks.
The bouncer deployed a large Bowie knife during the pursuit but that wasn’t enough to gain the customer’s cooperation. At one point Faillace took out his phone and claimed to be filming the customer while asking questions and making comments clearly intended to provoke threatening responses but the customer didn’t take the bait. Eventually the customer managed to escape and went home.
Oregon Assault III Statute
When someone enters a bar, gets in a customer’s face, and punches him the job of security is to get rid of the aggressor not the victim. The bouncer should have restrained Faillace but instead helped him and in so doing may have elevated the pair’s conduct from simply harassment and misdemeanor assault to felonious assault. The punch to the shoulder which resulted in no injury by itself is typically considered offensive physical contact under Oregon’s harassment statute. Harassment in Oregon is a misdemeanor.
Grabbing someone inappropriately constitutes Assault IV if the victim is injured. Bruises are considered physical injuries for the purpose of establishing a misdemeanor assault in Oregon. Had the bouncer by himself simply went up to the victim, grabbed him suddenly, and thrown him out without giving him the chance to leave on his own that conduct would likely constitute a misdemeanor assault due to the bruising.
When two or more people cause someone physical injury they often commit the felony of Assault III. See ORS 163.165(e), “While being aided by another person actually present, intentionally or knowingly causes physical injury to another.” The bouncer was clearly operating at the direction of Faillace who obviously asked him to back him up before entering the club. Had a normal customer unaffiliated with the ownership done that he most likely would have been dragged out for punching another customer without cause. Faillace is therefore somewhat liable for the injury because it was inflicted intentionally by another person who was aiding Faillace at his request.
Unfortunately, case law in Oregon appears to require that an accomplice actually cause the victim an injury himself to be prosecuted under Assault III (See State v. Pine). This means that the bouncer aided by Faillace committed an Assault III but that Faillace may not be guilty of Assault III himself due to him aiding the bouncer but not necessarily causing the injury. However, the relationship between Faillace and the bouncer could change that depending on whether the bruising of the victim could be deemed the result of directives from Faillace.
At a minimum, Faillace’s conduct should be sufficient to make him indictable for the Assault III committed by the bouncer as an accessory under ORS 161.155(2)(a) which reads, “Solicits or commands such other person to commit the crime.” Other potential charges Faillace could face had he done this to a snitch would likely include Attempted Assault IV and Harassment.
Fortunately for Faillace, the victim hates the government so much that filing a police report is something he never wants to do for any reason. He’d rather get grabbed, punched, or chased with a long knife than legitimize law enforcement with a request for their help.
Mistaken Identity?
Faillace seems to think his victim in this case is a member of the Proud Boys. The victim thought he might have said something that made Faillace suspect him of having those types of political leanings, but the victim’s friend says that Faillace showed him a picture of a specific Proud Boy on his phone and said “say that isn’t him” to which the victim’s friend responded “that isn’t him!” The photo was said to be of a guy in a black jersey with Proud Boys logos. The victim in this case doesn’t wear jerseys and doesn’t recall getting a new jersey since a relative gave him a Blazers jersey with the name Sabonis on it back in the 90s.
Alleged Child Sex Trafficking Conspiracy
A few years ago someone on the internet accused Faillace of being engaged in an elaborate child sex trafficking conspiracy with the owner of Voodoo Doughnut and Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin. Media reports allege that the perpetrators of these accusations were supporters of Q-Anon conspiracy theories.
It appears someone wants you to believe that taking your kids to Voodoo Doughnuts might get them Shanghai’d by Frank Faillace and fed to Macaulay Culkin. As you can see in the images below, Macaulay Culkin went from being a child star loved globally to a creepy looking adult. The idea of him being left alone with your kids should be every parent’s worst nightmare due to his ever worsening unnaturally pale complexion, drug use, and the fact that Hollywood stole his childhood just like Michael Jackson.
The video below promoting #doughnutgate is an hour long:
None of these accusations resulted in any criminal charges and sound far fetched to this author. While the Shanghai tunnels in Portland are legendary they’re not generally believed to have been used for human trafficking in over a century.
Posting of Faillace’s Information
In addition to his reviews which focused primarily on the Orwellian nature of Faillace’s policy, the victim posted what many consider to be personal information on a website designed for that purpose. He did it because he got mad when Faillace got him de-platformed from Yelp! The customer threw a fit and posted information he wasn’t planning to post at that time.
Failed Removal Attempt
A couple hours later the customer tried removing the personal information from the post only to find out that the website moderates edits to keep people from removing personal information. As a result, the edit was rejected by the site and the customer can’t get rid of the information. The customer thought he had editorial control over his work but was misled by the website.
The website misleads users by not posting their rule against removing personal information where site rules are posted, tells users they can edit their work, and doesn’t display a notice telling users that removing personal information is not allowed until after they click the edit button. Due to these misleading practices this author will not tell people what site the victim used.
The Customer’s Point
What was the customer trying to prove when he posted information about Frank Faillace? He was trying to prove that the man collecting personal information from his customers wouldn’t like it if his customers started collecting the same information about him.
When you scan someone’s ID you get their picture, name, date of birth, address, and other biographical information. Nobody wants to give strip clubs that kind of information about themselves. It is overwhelmingly obvious that Faillace doesn’t like other people having access to that kind of information about him either, so he has no business harvesting the same data from other people.
The victim only planned to keep Faillace’s information up long enough to make his point. Then he reconsidered and was not allowed to remove it. Faillace didn’t know about the removal attempt until after putting hands on the customer. Likewise, his victim was not aware of Faillace’s personal history of conflicts with alleged Q-Anon conspiracy theorists.
Conclusion
Frank Faillace is lucky he put hands on a chill enough dude not to make too big a deal out of it. The victim is pretty forgiving for the most part, so it would be nice if Faillace were forgiving as well. However, there still would remain the problem of ID scanners which are a clear and present danger to consumers.
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