“It was very comfortable to be naked,” a Plato’s regular said. “In fact, it was uncomfortable to not be naked.”
were reporting on the louche lair at Broadway and 74th Street — and the married suburban habitués it drew. The rise of Levenson’s club was spectacular, but so was its downfall, brought on by alleged mafia ties, federal criminal charges and the eruption of the ’80s AIDS epidemic. The wild tale of his reign as the “King of Swing” is being revisited Tuesday at 9 p.m.
Guests undressed in locker rooms, where they were given towels, which the club advised could be worn in a variety of ways to “telegraph their intentions, their personal tastes.” Only couples could enter the mat room — and they couldn’t be fully clothed. Quaaludes were the, and while prostitutes were banned, that didn’t stop single men from bringing them to circumvent the ban on bachelors.
“He always wanted to be this larger-than-life person,” Michael Levenson told The Post. Levenson divorced the mother of his children, Gloria, in the early ’60s when Michael and his twin bother were 6. “He worked a lot of odd jobs,” Michael said, “but once he stumbled upon success with Plato’s Retreat,Celebrities including Sammy Davis Jr., Richard Dreyfuss and Madonna supposedly checked out Plato’s Retreat.
Although Levenson’s girlfriend Mary professed the perks of swinging, many believed that she wasn’t as in favor of the lifestyle as Levenson.In 1979, while in a relationship with his live-in girlfriend Mary — who publiclyof their swinging lifestyle, but, in truth, had grown weary of her beau’s many indiscretions — Levenson was robbed and brutally beaten in Queens.
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