The State - News from Feb. 10, 1988

Attorney Gloria Allred, who became the first woman regular member of the exclusive Friars Club in Beverly Hills, is involved in heated negotiations with the club over use of its health facilities. Allred said she held “a very heated meeting” with club officials to demand that the four women members be allowed to use the the sauna, the Jacuzzi and the showers. Allred said that at one point the male officials suggested that an alternative would be to allow the women “to go in naked with the men naked.” She said she rejected that suggestion. William Sarnoff, chairman of the club’s legal committee, said, “She’s going to milk this thing for all the story’s worth”.