A Kings Cross strip club baron has been partying all week after prosecutors dropped charges claiming he sexually assaulted a nude customer giving him a 'private show'.
Sydney man Michael Frank Amante, 46, was due to stand trial on Monday on four charges of sexual assault without consent.
He was preparing for his time in the spotlight when his lawyer texted last week with news that prosecutors had pulled the charges after 14 months.
'I think there was only one night I didn't go out last week,' he laughed, as he revealed his account of a naked rendezvous that threatened to end with a long jail sentence.
'She was in the nude ... rubbing herself all over me': Michael Frank Amante, 46, is celebrating after four sexual assault charges against him were dropped before the case went to trial
Mr Amante said he invited the woman to receive a private show. These pictures show scenes from parties at Dreamgirls, not the woman who made the claims about Mr Amante
Party scenes at Dreamgirls - the strip club which Mr Amante ran for more than seven years
Michael Frank Amante with his childhood friend and fellow Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim
Mr Amante, a childhood friend of fellow 'king of the Cross' John Ibrahim, ran the red light district's iconic Dreamgirls strip joint for more than seven years. He started running Dreamgirls after his father, Frank 'Ashtray' Amante, split his famous Porky's club into two separate clubs in 2007.
After a tumultuous time running the strip club, he was shocked in August 2017 when police turned up, asking questions about his late night encounter with a wannabe stripper.
She jumped all over me, she was getting right into it... she was in the nude, she was rubbing herself all over me
Four months later, he was arrested and charged, after detectives obtained DNA evidence officers argued backed up their case.
The public only heard vague details of the incident at a bail hearing, including that a woman had 'rubbed her naked body on him'.
Mr Amante was freed on conditional bail, with a magistrate saying 'it's not the strongest case, but not the weakest', revealing there was DNA evidence and incomplete CCTV.
The woman claimed Mr Amante had digitally penetrated her four times, without her consent - which he strongly denied.
Telling his version of events for the first time to Daily Mail Australia, Mr Amante said: 'Four gentlemen came into the strip club, right?
'It was about 2 (o'clock) in the morning and they wanted to take four girls for an hour's show.'
But the group only wanted three strippers from Mr Amante's club. The men wanted a woman who had accompanied them to the club to be the fourth.
Mr Amante has left the hospitality industry and is pursuing a career as an electrician
Mr Amante was banned from ever being a licensee to a licensed premises in NSW after undercover police raided Dreamgirls in 2016 (above)
Mr Amante recalled: 'So she's come up to me and she's asked me (if she could do it).
'I said, "that's no dramas, have you ever done a private show, love, do you have any idea what you're doing'?''.
The woman said no and Mr Amante said: 'Well, do you want me
