STUDIO 54

«Steve Rubell, who co-owned Studio 54 went down to the basement one dawn after he'd thought everyone had left and found a Eurotrash princess handcuffed to an overhead pipe. She had been taken down there by her own request, handcuffed, fucked by one of the cocktail waiters-half naked, they ran around in what looked like diapers-who then thought, My God, I've got to get back to the bar! and forgot about the handcuffs. I can't be sure about the princess's reaction to her night, but a kind of laissez-faire attitude prevailed about Studio 54. As one of the regulars said" «We knew we were having the time of our lives; we were loving it. We knew it was an extraordinary time, and we knew it wouldn't last»

-Georges Plimpton
The Advocate
July 21 1998