The Paradise Health Center at Balboa. City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing to shut them down for operating a covert brothel. Back in March , we wrote about Paradise Health Center Balboa being shut down temporarily for lewd conduct after inspectors walked in on a female practitioner completely nude and engaged in a lewd act with a male client, also nude.
In February the business was cited again for the same violation. City Attorney Dennis Herrera agrees. On Monday, he filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against Paradise Health Center for operating a covert brothel and engaging in illegal behavior.
Paradise and its landlord have no respect for the law or this community, and they have made a business out of exploiting women. With this lawsuit I aim to shutter them once and for all, and to hold this business and this landlord responsible.
In addition, owner Jie Qin Zhou is prohibited from opening, managing, investing in or working in any massage parlor or other personal service business, like a barber shop or nail salon, in San Francisco for 10 years. The injunction also prevents the space from being used as a massage parlor or similar business for at least 10 years. The photo taken by an inspector and submitted as evidence of the practitioner and client on May 10, Herrera hopes to reach the same outcome with Paradise.
Paradise Health Center et al. The complaint , alleges that Paradise has been advertising its brothel services since on websites like backpage. The complaint also notes steps that Paradise took to hide their illegal activity including locking the front entrance during business hours and using a buzzer system to control entry β both in violation of the Planning Code and the Health Code.
