Sylvester imposter's $30,000 unpaid bill at Watergate Hotel

[Spellbound]

Do any of you have other interesting or fascinating stories (involving the DISCO scene) similar to this one? By the DISCO scene I mean the clubs, the artists, the producers, the record labels.....

We all already know about the raid on 54 and the demolition derby but what about other less publicized events which may be unknown by others outside of your local area? Anything you consider interesting or fascinating about the scene others may not know about is something I am interested in.
Thanks.

[Spellbound]

But with success, came trouble.

That same year, Sylvester was arrested because someone had decided that his persona was big enough to gain them access to the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, where the imposter ran up a hefty bill and the following year, the culprit and two sidekicks robbed a rare coin collector of more than $25,000 in coins and cash and passed off a bad check for $30,000 to another collector. But instead of going crazy when he was falsely arrested, the grand Dame of Disco held a press conference at the very hotel where the Great Coin Heist took place, so that he could say before the press (which included SOUL and JET magazines, which rarely covered him but loved a good bit of dirt) that "I simply don't live that kind of life." He could have been indignant and loud, but the classy songbird charmed the media corps and had them eating from his hands.