“Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive”
Sir Walter Scott
This excerpt below is taken from my ex co-partner's (Gloria, Miss G Vious) new 'Toppers Club London' website plagiarized from our original 'Toppers Club' site. The following can be found on the news page at www.toppersclublondon.com. Hold onto your sides as those who are aware of the truth may find this quite apocryphal.
“Many of you will have seen the malicious tirade from Harvie and Nina. Please ignore them, WE WILL BE OPEN TONIGHT, FRIDAY 11/11/11 AS USUAL.”
It goes on to read;“I don’t want to get into a slanging match, that’s why we have solicitors. They are committing an offence by claiming to represent TOPPERS. It is myself, MISS G VIOUS (GLORIA) who negotiated with Stunners Club to start a BDSM CLUB and I am the only one that they will deal with. All that know me will know that I don’t do sneaky, underhand, behind your back, kind of things.
FACTS
On Nina’s 48th birthday, she walked out of the Stoke Newington club, with nowhere else to go. I offered, without any cost to her, a partnership in my new club. For the first 20 months, I personally, made good all the losses that occurred, mostly on Sunday nights. The Fridays Took about a year to break even and then make a profit. I split this 50/50 with Nina, without taking into any consideration any previous losses.
On her 50th (I was 51) birthday this year, she announced, over the mic, that she was leaving to live in the Pyrenees and that she had got me a new partner. ALL THIS WITHOUT ANY DISCUSSION WITH ME!
Would you let your partner, who you also considered a friend treat you like this and then welcome her back so she could do it again? I THOUGHT NOT.
This is what happened with Harvie; after serving Nina to the best of his ability, she dismissed him and told him that he was no longer welcome at my club. I thought this was wrong and made him club manager so that he had access despite her. I thought we were working well together and was shocked to find that all the time he was still in thrall to her and was her slave.
To summarise; two people that I have helped and thought were friends have turned against me in a very malicious way. You judge who is the better person
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!”
For those who have read this far and would like to know the other side of the story so as to gain the full picture with which to base a more accurate vision of the circumstances, please read my defence of this outlandish rebuke.
When I started at 'Club Domina' of Stoke Newington I had been in the role as resident Domme. I was taken under Gloira's wing at first and with each other's help we started my role as a Dominatrix.. I then received invitations to be resident dominatrix at three other nights; 'Club Rub', 'Subversion' and 'Decadence' (where I am still still happily helping 'Subversion' and 'Decadence' today).
Gloria was soon asked to leave 'Club Domina' due to being found to be practising BDSM games in an over-intoxicated state . The situation became difficult and I was unsure what to do as she was my friend and I felt my loyalty lay to her, and towards the end of my stay with the club I started to receive disrespectful actions from the owners and decided to leave.
I really liked working at 'Club Domina' as it was a place you could go to do all the things the other clubs would not allow. A fantastic atmosphere and I knew that I wanted to start a similar club night and set to work to make it possible.
I spoke to a few friends who might like to be involved and that included Gloria, so together we make plans and stated to look for a suitable venue. Gloira soon telephoned me and said that she had found a venue in Limehouse called 'Stunners' who would be happy to host the night. I decided to call our new night 'Toppers' because it was strictly a BDSM environment where people could come to experience my unique brand of 'topping'.
Gloira told me she “could not wait for the new night we planned to start as it fell on the same nights as 'Club Domina” and felt she was getting her own back “if we could win their custom instead”.
Despite being a little disgruntled at the location I was pleased that we had a space in London to start this exiting venture. I paid for lights, posters, flyers and design time for a logo, organised a website and kept it maintained and updated. I paid for some of the equipment such as the St Andrew cross and half toward the benches.
I made myself available and accessible as a host of the event and spent much of my time entertaining the customers well. In the early stage where we did not profit I offered to pay towards any costs and was told by Gloria “No its OK, I will sort it as I have more money than you coming in from my cab business”, but after some advertising I had organised we no longer suffered loss and 'Toppers Club' became a thriving and intimate event. After much personal dispute between Harvie and I, my own idea was eventually to make Harvie manager.
It also became clear that profits made were lower than calculations should show and this was due to Gloria skimming the top for payment of her bar tab and the DJ's wage who I was told was not getting paid.
After three years with no holiday I had the opportunity to take an extended break abroad and announced privately to Gloria about my leaving. I had waited till I was certain that I could find a replacement for my position at 'Toppers' before telling Gloria. I had taught Goddess Cleo how to do what I had been doing at 'Toppers' and she had agreed to take my place. Gloria was happy to have Cleo cover in my absence and said she looked forward to my return. I then made this announcement to the rest of the club over the microphone latter that night. A goblet was passed to Goddess Cleo in symbolism gesture of trust.
I was informed all the time I was away about happenings at 'Toppers' by friends including Goddess Cleo. The club was doing well and when I told them at the end of September I will be back on the 3rd of November everyone seemed pleased.
On my return it turns out that, without being in contact with me, Gloira had gone on to sort out a brand new website for 'Toppers' with Goddess Cleo as her new partner possibly without her consent.
I was back in the UK only four days and getting ready for 'Toppers' when there was a knock on my door. It was Gloria in her male garb who I invited in and served tea. I was informed there and then that I was no longer to be her partner, though I was welcome as a guest...lol He then sat and talked to Harvie about weather and pigeons, leaving me sitting there stunned by it all.
Then unbeknown to me Harvie started a hate champaign on Gloria using Facebook, blog sites and texts causing a running bitterness surrounding the upheaval. This is my defence and have not resigned myself to starting another unnecessary champaign.
Let it be known now that I have no association with 'Toppers Club London' and the turn out to the night is reflecting that. You will be delighted to know that I will be opening a brand new club night so I look forward to seeing all of the old faces as much as I will the new ones.
