He was an entrepreneurial showman, best known in the 1960s through the '80s for staging risque spectacles in Honolulu nightclubs. On this episode of Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox, Jack Cione, now retired, reflects on his colorful business life in Honolulu, which included highly publicized arrests. He freely and gleefully admits that it was he who called the news outlets when police arrived. Women would become some of his best customers – at luncheons featuring nude waiters.
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