Carmen Electra, Other Celebrities Sue Peabody Strip Club

PEABODY, MA — The Golden Banana in Peabody used images of Carmen Electra and nine other actresses and models in online advertisements without their permission, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston last week. Electra, the lead plaintiff in the case, filed the lawsuit under her legal name Tara Leigh Patrick. The suit names D&B Corp., which also owns Ten’s Show Club in Salisbury and the Squire Lounge in Revere. D&B owner Mark Filtranti was also named as a defendant.

Models C.J. Gibson, Denise Milani, Julianne Klaren, Rachel Koren, Rosa Acosta, Abigail Ratchford, Keeley Hazell and Kim Cozzens joined Electra as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The women claim the ads damaged their reputations and they are seeking damages as well as an injunction barring D&B from further use of the images.

The lawsuit claims that, in some cases, D&B copied images from the models' Instagram pages and "misappropriated and intentionally altered" them to imply the models endorsed or even appeared as performers at the Golden Banana.

An image of Electra was used in several social media posts to promote the Golden Banana's amateur night. The model, who has also worked as an actor and recording artist, filed a similar lawsuit with 11 other models and actresses against a club in Nevada earlier this year.

Earlier this year, several Golden Banana dancers sued the club, claiming management violated tip-sharing laws.