One glance at the website for Mad Girls Fitness, still online at the time of this publication, and you might be able to tell that something is wrong. Amidst general nonsense and images of women, the most cogent description of the supposed business is this: "Mad Girls is primarily a professional modeling, advertising and artistic ad photography company. We also offer professional private training services such as private modeling, private dance, private massage and private pole dance and private pole fitness training and job placement.”

Mad Girls Fitness had no business license to speak of, however, and the East Bay Times writes that suspicious neighbors contacted the authorities. The "upscale private club" described on the site for clients just turned out to be a basement in an upscale neighborhood in Pleasant Hill.

"Once they got inside, it was exactly what we suspected, a house of prostitution," Pleasant Hill police Lt. Scott Vermillion told that publication. "They made a deal of sex services for money, and when the money was given, we called it and that's when the arrest was made."

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54-year-old Dominic Salazar was arrested by undercover detectives and has been charged with pimping and false imprisonment, the Chronicle reports. As Vermillion put it, "We're still in the infancy of this investigation."

It doesn't sound like there was any artistic photography happening, or even pole dance training for that matter.

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