Somen "Steve" Banerjee created the All-Male Erotic Dancing Company Chippendales, After operating a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club, Banerjee bought a failed Los Angeles club named "Destiny II" in 1975. When Chippendales blew up, so did Banerjee's ego and thirst for power. In the mid-1980's he ordered the assassination of his business partner, and Chippendale's choreographer Nick De Noia, and then he was busted a few years later trying to assassinate two members of rival All-Male dance troop, Adonis. He took his own life before he could be sentenced to jail.