Stars Cabaret Beaverton Selling Strip Club While Facing $8 Million Civil Rights Prosecution

The strip club had hired 13- and 15-year-old girls as dancers.

By Matthew Korfhage

Stars Cabaret Beaverton will likely soon be gone.

The California-based strip club chain Spearmint Rhino has confirmed it’s in the process of buying the Southwest Lombard Avenue location of Stars Cabaret & Steakhouse in Beaverton.

The owners of the Stars Cabaret strip club chain are currently facing an $8 million civil rights case for unlawful sexual harassment of minors. Labor commissioner and secretary of state candidate Brad Avakian is seeking $4 million apiece in damages for two teenage girls who danced at the Beaverton strip club when they were 13 and 15 years old, respectively.

A Stars manager was sentenced to 15 years in prison for abuse of the 13 year old girl, who was raped repeatedly after being, in the words of documents Avakian’s agency filed, “bought off the floor.” The case will be heard August 2.

The Spearmint staffer WW reached on the phone was unaware of abuse at the Stars location, confirming only that Spearmint Rhino was in the process of buying the strip club.

Spearmint Rhino has a location in Portland, on the eastern edge of the city on Southeast Division Street.

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