For former stripper Kathryn Monroe, The Cheetah's decision to pay her to settle two federal lawsuits was worth 5,500 lap dances—charged at $20 for each shimmy and shake.

A former exotic dancer at The Cheetah, Atlanta's iconic strip club, Monroe settled two labor and civil rights lawsuits against the club for $110,000 and $18,050 in legal fees.

Monroe danced at the Midtown “gentleman's club” for more than 12 years before she sued The Cheetah and its parent company, International Follies Inc., in federal court in 2016. She claimed the club fired her for complaining about “a morass of illegal activities,” including sexual abuse, harassment, drugs, pandering and prostitution—all of which she contended created a hostile work environment.