I am Meni Troupakis and I have been running VIP Entertainment Inc. since 1992. When you call VIP you get me — not Anthony, not PJ, not a call center, not an answering service. Me. I book every show, answer every call, build every website, update every page, and have been doing all of it since before most of my clients were born. I am a one man show and I would not have it any other way.
How It Started — Macs Two, Billerica, MA, 1992
I was 22 years old and going to Macs Two in Billerica, Massachusetts on amateur night, mostly to meet dancers, if I am being honest. One night I saw Amber dance to U2’s “So Cruel” and went over to talk to her. She came back with “hey, you want to be my driver for parties?” I said yes. That was my introduction to the business.
My first party was in Hollis, New Hampshire — summer, a barn at a house. Amber told me to park facing out in case we needed to leave quickly. She also asked if I had a jacket. I said no, why? She said you need to look like you carry a gun. That was 1992. The party went great. Nobody needed a jacket.
Amber was a single mom, blonde, stage name. We never fooled around, she was a professional and so was I, even if I was figuring it out as I went. After shows we would stop at Yero’s Pizza on Union Street in Manchester, my brother’s place, grab a slice and debrief on the night.
Building the Business — Pagers, Pizza, and Yellow Pages
I got a pager so Amber could reach me. Then an 800 number. Then a local Manchester number 603-627-0007, which still works today. A couple of years in I bought a pizza shop in Suncook with my brother and put a VIP phone line in the back kitchen 603-485-XXXX. Old Geno who had the store next door, and use to hang out at the pizza place, would hear me answer the VIP phone line so much, he would mock me yelling “VIP!” very loudly every single time the VIP phone rang.
I advertised in the Yellow Pages. My salesman would come every year, sit in a booth at the pizza place, and chat me up to buy bigger ads. I also registered AAA Aaron Entertainment as a second agency name. Purely so I would appear first in the Entertainment Bureaus category, ahead of everyone else alphabetically. A little hustle never hurt.
In 1995 I sat across from my Yellow Pages salesman in that booth and told him I would not be advertising next year. People would use the internet to find strippers. He looked at me like I had two heads. I was right.
On the Road – Portland, Maine and the VIP Shirt
In the early 1990s I was making regular trips up to Mark’s Showplace in Portland, Maine. That’s where I met Morgan – blue eyed, brunette, she danced for VIP for a while. She would drive down from Portland, and we’d head off to parties. I met the DJ at Mark’s and his girlfriend, a gorgeous dancer, she let us use her likeness for the back of our first VIP Entertainment t-shirts. Hand drawn illustration, teal shirt, 1-800-4-HOT-VIP across the bottom. She never did parties – just gave us the image. We still have the shirt.
I stopped making the Portland run around 1996. I got married.
The Internet — 1995 to 2010
I registered my first domain in 1995. I use to hang out in Bedford, NH at XTDL, a service provider. I even uploaded my polaroids with feature dancers to my personal space on xtdl.com~meni lol . Steve D. helped design my first site. Web Archive has it saved from November 1996 — one of the earliest adult entertainment booking sites on the internet. I was telling dancers from Matthews in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts — French girls from Quebec and Montreal — about the internet in 1995 and they were completely clueless. The industry had no idea what was coming. I started building sites, and sending traffic to my buddies who started Video Secrets. As featured in the LA Business Journal. That was the 90s. I’m still here booking strippers.
I also registered AAA Aaron Entertainment, exxxotica.com, and eventually built out a network of adult websites — free sites sending traffic to pay sites, thumbnail galleries, banner advertising. In August 1998 Interface Monthly, Northern New England’s Business Technology Magazine, featured me in an article titled “Sex On-Line” by Jennifer Walsh. The pull quote on the page: “How could anyone not want to work as an adult Web master?”, the self-described Porn King of New Hampshire asks. “You get to look through pictures all day.” I still have that magazine.
From 2000 to approximately 2007 I worked for Club Jenna, Jenna Jameson’s company, managing web operations. When Playboy acquired Club Jenna they kept me on for about 18 months before moving support in house to Chicago. By 2010 Fabian Thylmann bought Pornhub and the free site traffic model I had built collapsed overnight. Nobody needed my thumbnail galleries and banner sites anymore when everything was free on Pornhub. That was the end of my internet empire and the full return to my first love, VIP Entertainment.
Hustler Magazine — June 2010
The same year my internet business wound down, VIP Entertainment appeared in Hustler magazine. Writer Scott Fayner, who connected through Tony Testa in California, reached out to book our dancers for the ultimate Nantucket bachelor party article. We sent Lexi, Christina, and Lacie. Our driver Mark’s car broke down on the way to the meeting point so I gave him my Jeep Cherokee. He met Scott near Route 128 outside Boston, they got in a limo to Hyannis, and flew by private plane to Nantucket. The girls stayed overnight in a massive private home. The photo of Scott with Lexi, Christina, and Lacie standing at the limo, Nantucket sweatshirts on, sunglasses, smiling, ran in Hustler magazine June 2010. We have the magazine.
VIP Today — Real Photos, Real Dancers, Real Owner
For a period in the early days some of our dancers did not want their photos online, it was a different time and dancing carried more stigma. We operated without photos for a stretch. Today dancers post everything on social media themselves and do not hide what they do. That shift made our job easier and our sites better. Every photo on every VIP site is a real dancer on our current roster. That has always been our policy and it always will be.
I have watched this industry change completely since 1992. Agencies come and go. The internet changed everything twice, once when it arrived and once when Pornhub arrived. Strip clubs opened and closed. Other agency owners used fake names on the phone. I always answered as Meni. I still do.
I build my own sites. I host my own sites. I update my own sites. I answer my own phone. I book my own parties. I have been doing all of it for over 30 years from Manchester, New Hampshire to Pompano Beach, Florida where I am based now. VIP Entertainment has operated continuously since 1992 through recessions, a pandemic, the rise and fall of the adult internet, and every change this industry has thrown at us.
I see other agents charging $800 a party. I charge about half that. I am probably underpaid. But I have been doing this long enough to know that quality and honesty keep customers coming back better than any price ever could. Over 376 reviews across New England spanning three decades — real reviews from real parties at real locations. That is the VIP record.
The Coverage Area
VIP Entertainment serves all of New England, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, plus Saratoga Springs and Lake George in Upstate New York. From Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut to Killington and Stowe in Vermont, from Boston bachelor parties to Nantucket private planes, from Lake Winnipesaukee boat parties to Martha’s Vineyard ferry rides. If you are planning a private party anywhere in New England, call me. I will pick up.
Contact Meni Directly
Call 800-446-8847 or text 802-342-5925. Seven days a week, 9am to 11pm. You will get me.