Sorry, not a big fan of the KC Mafia, which is very real and has destroyed real lives. Who do you think is in the Mob here? Drug traffic is mostly independant or gang related at best…and hookers, well they are pretty much on their own, or you can rent one outta the Pitch….
KC Confidential. Skip to content. Does it Even Matter? Tony Botello. Bookmark the permalink. December 7, at pm. Anonymous says:. The place was empty except for one man. Seated at a table by himself was Louis Ribaste, who asked Latta if he wanted a full-time job. An explosion leveled it, along with the entire block — which was owned by mob snitch Fred Bonadonna — in March Ribaste collected insurance money.
Three months later, his other downtown club near Ninth Street burned to the ground. Police never determined who was responsible for the bombing or the suspected arson.
In , according to news reports, Peter transferred his ownership interest in Totally Nude Temptations, the strip club adjoining the Cigar Box, to his wife, who transferred the ownership to another family member, John Ribaste.
John Pisciotta has owned the Cigar Box since it opened in He bought the land beneath the club from Louis Ribaste in The Pitch could not locate Ribaste to request an interview. When asked about it, people who could dispel any such notions suddenly turn goodfella, invoking a code of silence. Pisciotta shuns the press.
You fuck with the wrong people, you get hurt. I never asked anybody what they do. Everybody always liked me, and I always liked everybody. Pisciotta has helped him finance two cars, he says. On most nights, his electric-blue Corvette is parked out front. A television reporter has seen his act and wants to do a story on him for a February-sweeps tie-in with American Idol. Latta created a new outfit for the taping, staying up all night after a Friday gig to sew silver sequins like stars across a red jacket.
He stayed up past dawn, and then past noon, until just after 1 p. Saturday night, 30 minutes before showtime, Latta sits on a stool in a third-floor loft at 20th Street and Grand. A cameraman revolves around the two men. Through the camera lens, Latta appears as someone at ease beneath vaulted ceilings and polished hardwood floors, flanked by windows that offer expansive views of the city.
His left foot is on the floor. His right foot rests on a stool rung. He holds his hands in front of him, rubbing them together over and over and over in a washing motion. He grew up in Greenwich Village, he tells the camera. Before coming to Kansas City, he played Vegas. Of course, he never performs the song.
A stout year-old guitarist in the band Etc. Latta lived downstairs for a few months after he and his wife split, but he has since moved out. The lobby is decorated with a thin carpet, tarnished chandeliers and a four-way security monitor. Since the divorce, Latta has garaged the Corvette in a storage unit off Noland Road. Latta requests that the Pitch not print his real surname.
Latta spent most of his life sleeping in motels. Latta peaked in , singing with a latter-day version of the Duprees, a s-era male-harmony group like the Drifters, the Coasters and the Platters. By the s, though, the Duprees were more a brand than a band. But there was glory for Latta. People you used to dream about and admire on TV.
To work on the same stage as those people — oh, my god. The name Al Latta began appearing on handbills. Topped with a marinara sauce.
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