Hannah Maguire

You know who I mean.

Steve Rubell said he had evidence of him doing a bunch of coke at Studio 54.

Obviously, that means they're coming after you, Steve.

Why would you do that?

He takes a lot of drugs in his defence, so maybe he thought it would be a good idea.

I also believe there had been very, very recently a change in the law where government officials could now come after you for personal slights against them.

I don't think they could before because they're like public figures, but something... Oh, it was a change after Watergate.

Oh, OK.

Something had happened.

A tiny little change in the sketch.

Anyway, so nothing really happens with the Hamilton-Jordan accusations, but everyone is looking at them, including the big boys on Capitol Hill.

So in the end, Steve and Ian realized that they were never going to beat the tax evasion charges.

And they were both sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

And no one was sad to see them go.

The night before Steve and Ian self-surrendered, they obviously threw an absolutely massive rager at Studio 54 as a send-off in February 1980, and they called it the end of modern-day Gomorrah.

Diana Ross got so wankered that she tried to sing over the crowd from the DJ booth, and Steve serenaded the room with his rendition of I Did It My Way.

Nice.

His way had landed them both in federal prison, where they didn't actually do their time.

They ratted out other club owners instead, and they were released back into the wild after just a few months.

But they had to sell Studio 54.