Jodi Gordon paid for strippers, Woman's Day claims
By Richard Clune
The Sunday Telegraph
July 05, 2009 12:01am
TELEVISION star Jodi Gordon is on the verge of quitting Australia and her spot on soap Home And Away, according to sensational claims to be published tomorrow in a women's magazine.
Home And Away star Jodi Gordon 'paid for stripper'
Woman's Day conducted a lengthy investigation of Gordon's behaviour in the months leading up to the bender with bikie Mark Judge that was splashed across front pages of newspapers and magazines around the country.
Woman's Day also reports that she is ready to give up her role on the long-running soap and head overseas to further her career.
The magazine tracked Gordon to a Kings Cross strip club, where it's claimed she regularly paid to have "private dances" performed for her.
Gordon was in the club, not for the first time, on the night of her run-in with police.
Woman's Day claims the star was a regular at the club and would pay for private, nude, erotic dances from female strippers.
Gordon, it's claimed, was on a first-name basis with many of the strippers at the club and would eagerly part with the $85 fee for private dances.
"Jodi is a really friendly girl and got on well with a lot of the girls," a club employee told the magazine.
"She was on first-name terms with some of the dancers and was extra friendly because she was out of it. Jodi once paid for a girl to dance for her for four hours."
The employee said Gordon visited the club - which is not named - the night she and alleged bikie Mark Judge called police.
In early June, the pair were found by police cowering in Judge's Bellevue Hill apartment, said to be under the influence of illegal drugs.
Gordon allegedly told police cocaine had been consumed.
Her actions caused Network Seven heir Ryan Stokes to end his two-year relationship with the soap star.
Logie winner Gordon, 24, continues to work on Home And Away.
