Le Club

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{{Short description|Defunct nightclub in Manhattan, New York}}

Le Club was a members-only restaurant and nightclub located at 416 East 55th Street in Manhattan. French expatriate Olivier Coquelin founded Le Club in 1960.{{Cite journal|last=Braunstein|first=Peter|date=November 1999|title=Disco|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/disco#2|journal=American Heritage|volume=50|issue=7}}{{cite news |last=Andelman |first=David A. |date=July 9, 1974 |title=Le Club, Restaurant of Jet Set, Cited for Health Code Violations |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/09/archives/le-club-restaurant-of-jet-set-cited-for-health-code-violations.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 13, 2021}}

It was a playground for New York's elites, including the Vanderbilts and Kennedys.{{cite book|title=Too Much and Never Enough|last=Trump|first=Mary L.|author-link=Mary L. Trump|year=2020|page=100|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781982141462}} As a young man in the 1970s, Donald Trump frequented the club, particularly associating with Roy Cohn.{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-nights-out-at-le-club-with-roy-cohn |title=Donald Trump's Nights Out at Le Club With Roy Cohn|first=Anthony |last=Haden-Guest |newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=March 12, 2019}}