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A lapdancing club visited by Ronnie Wood was raided today amid allegations it was a brothel and drugs den.
Vice squad officers swooped on the Capricorn Club in Goodge Street and eight addresses in east London and Essex.
Five men and two women were arrested and police were interviewing 18 women - from countries including France, Portugal, Brazil, Jamaica and Britain - believed to be working as prostitutes.
A father and son who ran the club, were among those held.
A Jaguar parked outside was seized along with £26,000 in cash, several wraps of cocaine, a knife and a knuckle duster.
The club, off the Tottenham Court Road, is known for being the venue where the Rolling Stone first met his 20-year-old girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova last year.
Police found 22 credit card records and names of possible clients, largely made up of City workers, who paid £200 to £250 for sex inside the club and up to £300 at a nearby hotel. Cocaine was also available in the club.
Police believe the club was raking in at least £1million a year from drugs and prostitution rackets.
Detective Inspector John Anderson said: "It's hard to believe that in the middle of a well-known area these shady dealings were blatantly going on."
Three men, 45, 63 and 69, were arrested at the club. A 44-year-old man was arrested in Holloway and a 55-year-old man in Stansted.
A woman in her fifties was held in Mitcham and a 49-year-old woman in Hendon.
More drugs and £24,000 were found at addresses in Bow and the Isle of Dogs, linked to two of the men suspects.
