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Kings Cross
Kings Cross, Potts Point NSW 2011
Notorious inner-city nightlife strip once ruled by a red-light crime boss, now a neon-lit gateway of bars and clubs.
This guide to Kings Cross in Sydney follows Abe Saffron, the man who quietly owned or controlled the strip clubs, sex shops and nightclubs along Darlinghurst Road from the 1950s into the 1990s, earning nicknames like Mr Sin. It traces the weekly cash payments his own son later said bought off Sydney's police commissioner and premier, and the decades of raids that investigators mounted against his empire. Listen for which charges, if any, ever actually stuck.
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