Mrs. Powell. She wasn’t pulling them down. She wore these very brief flesh-colored things underneath the G-string. She took the G-string and was pulling this front out from her body.
Mr. Griffin. She would take off the G-string and have the flesh-colored pants on?
Mrs. Powell. She had her hands like this and was pulling them out or pulling them up, and he saw her, and he just turned the lights out.
Mr. Griffin. But this is something you had seen her do previously?
Mrs. Powell. Oh, I had seen her, sure; but he has a way of not seeing everything. He is always so busy. I remember one night on the stage I went out and I was very mad, and I stomped around and acted real silly like I had never been on the stage before, for his benefit, and I do 15 minutes, and I was waiting for him to come back and jump on me, and he didn’t even see it, and he was right there in the club. He doesn’t observe everything.
Mr. Griffin. What happened after he turned the lights out on Jada?
Mrs. Powell. She went on and kept dancing in the dark. And she came off and was hollering and screaming, and he went back immediately and jumped on her and said she was trying to get the club closed. And they had a big row and he fired her. He told her she couldn’t work the rest of the night.
Mr. Griffin. Did he threaten or strike her in any way?
Mrs. Powell. No: he didn’t hit her. I wouldn’t doubt that he might have. I wouldn’t put it past him.
Mr. Griffin. Have you ever seen him hit any of the employees?