Samantha Barbash is an American entrepreneur and former adult entertainment host whose real life story with
Roselyn Keo
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Keo, who was raised by her grandmother in a small town outside New York City, ...
formed the basis for the movie ''
Hustlers'', starring
Jennifer Lopez
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and
Constance Wu
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. The film was adapted from
Jessica Pressler
Jessica Pressler (born 1977/78) is an American journalist and contributing editor at ''New York''. Her 2015 article "The Hustlers at Scores" was nominated for a National Magazine Award and was later made into a feature film called '' Hustlers'' ...
's 2015 article in
New York
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* ...
magazine, "The Hustlers at Scores".
[ Barbash has written her own memoirs, entitled ''Underscore''.][
Known professionally as Samantha Foxx, she became an adult entertainment host at 19 and later a hostess at Scores Gentlemen's Club in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan][ and in the same borough's Hustlers Club. Many of their biggest spending clients were highly paid ]Wall Street
Wall Street is a street in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs eight city blocks between Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in the west and South Street (Manhattan), South Str ...
brokers.[
]
See also
* Diane Passage
Diane Passage is an American woman from New York City who has been described as a "socialite". Her former husband met her when she worked as an exotic dancer at Scores, one of the New York City strip clubs profiled in the movie ''Hustlers''.
...
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American businesspeople
American sex workers
American women non-fiction writers