CU SCANDAL & STRIPPERS
THE REAL STORY......

This is the expressed personal opinion of one person that has heard enough of the ramblings of a convicted felon that is using the media to further a failing company. The first amendment rocks...!!!

You've heard about hardbodies entertainment, hardbodies strip tease, hardbodies strip o grams, hardbodies in Vegas, hardbodies in Houston, hardbodies in Denver. Well I'm here to expose some the real history of the stripping industry in Denver, Colorado to whom ever is interested. It may make for some fun reading. (more at a later date)

Is there in fact one company with so many names and so many locations spread out across the US providing strippers exclusively for recruits and colleges? NO.... Lets talk about a deceptive practice used by businesses to make them seem bigger than they really are. All it takes is listing the names of cities on a website and registering with the Secretary of State in the areas listed and make $1.00 and you have the right to that name in that state. There is nothing illegal about it, but is it honest? No..... You can look up the two states and see there is no hardbodies entertainment listed, meaning there is no business operating under that name in that state. Texas-- www.sos.state.tx.us Nevada-- sos.state.nv.us If anyone has any information otherwise please notify.

So why would anyone that has no ties to the CU program or any other athletic program place themselves in the middle of this controversy? Well, what does Steve lower and hardbodies entertainment have to gain? Well as anyone with common sense can see that the media has fallen for this story hook, line and sinker. On numerous news channels reports showed their website that contains entertainers that don't and have never worked for Hardbodies Entertainment or any of its made up companies. For those that know, Jenna Jameson isn't a stripper for Hardbodies (her picture appears on the site) You could spend all day on the photos and hunt down who they belong to. If anything should be brought to light it is the copyright laws that are being broken every time unauthorized photos of a model have been used without permission. Not the ethical rules of a college athletic program. If you have seen this and know any of these people personally please contact them so they can start some type of legal action to have them removed.
Yes, he provides dancers.. so does any number of companies. We've done parties for Metro State Volleyball Team and many other University and Professional Athletic programs.... So what, a volleyball player had a b-day. Does that make us the official volleyball team strip company? Hell, we did a party for the wife of the Phantom of the Opera about 8 yrs. ago when they were in town. You get the idea. Strippers + Party = fun for everyone. The question isn't and never was about strippers. If anyone that was following this would know, it is about anyone within the CU athletic program being involved in hiring prostitutes for recruitment. Not strippers or strip clubs, that just got lumped in there then blown out of proportion. And only the naive would believe the part of the report, "a party is like going to a strip club".. then why get a stripper. Everyone knows more happens at parties than just lap dances. Don't try to look like a saint.... Its too funny..... Self promotion like this creates an atmosphere of elaboration that has no bounds.
Bottom line, don't believe everything you read and only half of what you see.
Did you see the grill on that girl...(news interview) woof, woof.. she probably has a great personality.... if that’s the best they have... oh, where is her pictures?????

We will add information to this as time permits and feel free to do you own investigating. Everything listed above is a matter of public record or opinion and is only intended for the entertainment pleasure of its readers..
If you have any fun stories or horror stories about parties booked by Hardbodies and or Steve Lower then email them to Info@bareassets.com ..... There are a lot so be patient. We will post your stories and get the much needed comic relief that this whole advertising ploy is creating.
Company: Strippers Performed For CU Recruits
Feb 10, 2004 9:26 am US/Mountain
The scandal at the University of Colorado took another twist Tuesday with reports that football players hired strippers to perform at recruiting parties as recently as two weeks ago.
News 4 partner the Rocky Mountain News' report stunned Peter Steinhauer, president of the university's Board of Regents.
"I don't think this should be part of the recruiting atmosphere," he said. "Something pops up every day."
The regents have set up a special commission to investigate allegations that the school uses alcohol and sex to entice top high school recruits in a bid to stay competitive. The claims were raised in federal lawsuits filed by three female students who say they were raped during or after an off-campus party for recruits in December 2001.
The university and coaching staff have denied trying to lure recruits with alcohol and sex, and no one suggested the school was involved in strip parties. Last week, football coach Gary Barnett suspended four players, including one for taking a recruit to a strip club.
Hardbodies Entertainment Inc. president Steve Lower told the News his strippers have been hired by football players for years.
"They'll strip for (the recruits), do lap dances for them, and then they'll dance for the rest of the guys," he said. "There's nothing illegal here. They're definitely not ordering prostitutes."

Lower did not return several telephone messages Tuesday and no one was at the company's office. He said no coaches knew what was going on.
Hardbodies dancer Jennifer Nass, who said she has stripped at about a dozen Colorado recruiting parties during the past five years, said alcohol was present at about half of them, but "it was never out of control."
Nass, 23, said she last stripped at a Colorado football recruiting party about two weeks ago.
Lower said he sent dancers to about 10 recruiting parties for various university sports teams over the past year, including five parties for football players and recruits in off-campus houses. He said hiring strippers for recruiting parties has become a tradition at schools throughout the country.
"We've done it for (Colorado State University) and (the University of Northern Colorado) -- it's not a big issue," he told the newspaper. Officials at Colorado State and Northern Colorado said they were unaware of Lower's allegations.
Last week, police in Broomfield said they were investigating a report that the owner of an escort service was hired by the Colorado coaching staff to provide women for recruits. School officials have questioned the credibility of the woman who called in the report.
Steinhauer said the regents were putting together a list of 100 people who were suggested to serve on the investigative panel. He said the board will meet Monday to pick the remaining members, who will probably include a victims' advocate.
The panel is being co-chaired by former lawmakers Joyce Lawrence and Peggy Lamm.
Lawrence drew criticism last week when she suggested the alleged victims should be asked why they went to the party.
Steinhauer said he still backs Lawrence's role on the panel.
"I think she probably wishes she could take her comments back," he said. "But we want people who ask tough questions. And that is a question we should ask."

By Jim Sheeler, Rocky Mountain News
February 11, 2004

Hardbodies owner: 'It's a moral issue'
Ethics must be addressed, says chief of business that sent strippers for recruits
Since Lower disclosed in Tuesday's Rocky Mountain News that his Denver-based company provided professional strippers for athletic recruits at several colleges, Lower's phones have rarely stopped ringing - filled with calls from media outlets around the country and angry college representatives. Amid it all, the president of Hardbodies Entertainment sat forward on his couch and started to speak about morals and ethics.
"This issue that's come up now is definitely a moral issue," he said. "It's an ethics conduct issue that's got to be addressed, whether by the NCAA or the chancellors of the college. They're going to have to come up with some code of ethics, an off-campus code that affects players."
Lower maintains that he came forward to say that although he's sent strippers to college recruiting parties for football and basketball players, the coaches or university staff were never involved.

Also, after seeing a University of Colorado player penalized for going to a strip club, he said the rules about hosting strippers should be made more clear. "There probably should have been some guidelines," he said. "Is it written down anywhere that the players are not supposed to have strippers at parties?" Apparently not specifically. But at least at CU that's about to change, following the suspension of CU player Chris Hollis for taking a recruit to a strip club.

"Hollis was suspended for inappropriate behavior," said Dave Plati, CU athletic media relations director, who noted that new rules will be spelled out when the player handbook is updated in August.
"The handbook does not address strip clubs," Plati said Tuesday. "And next season, (head coach) Gary (Barnett) is going to make sure it does."
According to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, a school "may not arrange or permit excessive entertainment," though it is unclear what constitutes "excessive." The NCAA has said it will convene a panel this spring to discuss recruiting problems.
As he fielded calls from athletic department officials from the University of Houston and Rice University, he clarified his earlier statements that his girls had attended athletic recruiting parties in Texas and Nevada, saying only that his strippers had told him the parties were for recruits after they returned.
"That was secondhand knowledge," he said.

As for the parties at colleges in Colorado - CU, Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado - Lower said he knows the parties were for recruits because "I talked to the players and the girls," and he said he even noted some of them as recruiting parties in his appointment book.
"We've done basketball parties, baseball parties and football parties," he said.
"The girls come back and tell me they were trying to get a guy to sign."
Lower said he started Hardbodies in 1984 while he was a student at the University of Northern Colorado and officially began the company in 1986, after graduating. The company - and Lower - are no strangers to controversy. He was convicted in 1989 for conspiracy to import anabolic steroids from Mexico. In 1999, Hardbodies provided strippers for a bachelor party that involved officers from the Sheridan Police Department.
In 2003, Lower recently filed for personal bankruptcy - a result, he said, of a divorce.
Despite the national publicity, he said, his intent in coming forward was not to drum up more business.
"This is obviously going to put an end to the recruit parties," he said. "But maybe it will at least open some eyes."

sheelerj@RockyMountainNews.com <mailto:sheelerj@RockyMountainNews.com> Staff writers Lynn Bartels, Brian D. Crecente and Karen Abbott and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Copyright 2004, Rocky Mountain News. All Rights Reserved.

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