A playground to young Hollywood’s most unacceptable behavior and the birthplace of the most shocking headlines.

Underage drinking, lap dances, gun shots, and the most recent debacle, alleged rape by one of the owners are just some of the Hollywood headlines originating from Les Deux. The generic Hollywood crowd doesn’t show up for the weak drinks and mood lighting. Not even for the romantic motif and trademark fountain.

Lonnie Moore, co-founder of The Dolce Group, responsible for Geisha House, Dolce, Ketchup, and many other restaurants and nightclubs around Los Angeles including Les Deux, started the multi-million dollar group simply by bootstrapping, begging, borrowing, and stealing as much as needed to open the first restaurant. It wasn’t until he and Mike Milan decided to seek celebrity investors to really launch their careers as club owners.

The business concept founding Les Deux was to find several celebrities to invest in a specific club, each investor invites a number of their friends to the grand opening and all publicized events and it’s easy to have a couple hundred people, all once removed from a celebrity investor at the party. With so many celebrities wanting to party in one place, there’s bound to be trouble! Which is probably why Moore is now facing allegations of raping an underage patron in the “Managers’ Suite” at Les Deux last Friday (the “Manager’s Suite” is a bedroom on the premises for managers to rest because of the long hours required to operate the nightclub).

Hollyweirdos hit up this hot spot to see the menagerie of cocaine’s effects on celebs and minors and to possibly be able to say, “I was there that night when those two people were shot.” With so many private rooms, dark corners, and low light, Les Deux is the perfect scene to make a scene. The idea that a night at Les Deux could be a celebrity publicist’s nightmare or dream-come-true is the underlying concept of Les Deux’s continued popularity.

The red corset and black mini-skirt uniformed waitresses add to the “house of ill repute” decor of Hollywood’s sinful hot spot. In fact the uniforms are so skimpy, rumor has it, Britney Spears applied for a job simply for the uniform (they must have not had her size). Perhaps she thought it would improve her chances with The Dallas Cowboy, Tony Romo if her Les Deux lap dance didn’t captivate the quarterback this past October, which was publicized by on looking Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM morning show the following day.

This Lohan-esque nightclub is great for star-spotting, and a few laughs at Hollywood’s most desperate celebrities looking for headlines, but not really somewhere to go to get away from life’s drama. Cat fights and occasional parking lot brawls are common among ‘regulars,’ but for Angelinos with above average self-esteem go elsewhere.