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From strip club king to frail inmate

One of the most famous strip club owners Alaska picketed the Anchorage Correctional Complex Monday, August 29, and threatening to sue the state prison, claiming a prison guard made him very ill after being arrested as a result of a domestic dispute with his son.

Terry Stahlman, owner of the Hotel Big Timber and Showboat Show Club, said he was already sick, injured and frail when Anchorage police took him to jail after an altercation outside his home. Police say he had a weapon, but prosecutors declined to press charges. The night of the arrest, Aug. 17, cops are more Stahlman in state prison. Stahlman says he had recent surgery on his shoulders. He says he told the guards about the surgery because he wanted them to handle him gently. Stahlman says a guard took advantage of the information to hurt him more.

"I had both of my shoulders replaced about four months ago and I'll have to do it again now," Stahlman said in brief phone interview. "I am 68 years old and this is horrible. It's reprehensible. I begged the guy. I begged the guy and he tried to kill me."

At 68, Stahlman might be the elder statesman for the wayward populace of Alaska's gritty sex-and-drug fueled underground. He currently owns the Big Timber Hotel, on Fifth Avenue across from Merrill Field, which houses his no-alcohol strip club, Showboat. But Stahlman has made headlines since the 1970s both as a gray market exploiter (he once operated a gambling distributorship the state attorney general put out of business) and for donning the white hat on behalf of Alaska's less fortunate citizens.

In the late 1970s he was director of a halfway house called "Family House" where drug-addicted convicts sought treatment in lieu of prison time. That particular white hat was taken away amid criminal accusations and a trial. Stahlman was accused of helping two burglars, both former Family House clients, steal drugs from an Eagle River pharmacy and sell them in Fairbanks. The case may have ended Family House and Stahlman's tenure as a rehab director, but he was found not guilty after a trial. Edgar Paul Boyko, a former state attorney general and jury-charming criminal defense attorney who died in 2002, won Stahlman's case.

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