The Strip Club Heiress
The Jet Strip, My Father’s Conviction, and the Murder of Mac McKenna
The California sun bakes the asphalt, but inside the club, it’s a perpetual twilight of neon and cheap perfume.
When nine-year-old Laurel Woods first stepped into her father’s establishment, she didn't see the grit. She saw a kaleidoscope of lights, a shimmering silver disco ball, and a world larger than life. Her father, Michael Woods, had traded the star of the California Highway Patrol for a high-stakes gamble in the adult entertainment industry. Alongside his partner, Horace "Big Mac" McKenna Jr., Michael built an empire out of the Jet Strip Club. Millions rolled in. Lives changed overnight.
And then, the music stopped.
Twelve years and multiple clubs later, Big Mac is found slumped and shot to death in his own limo outside his ranch. Michael Woods is instantly thrust into the crosshairs as the prime suspect. For a decade, the case hangs like a shroud—unsolved, whispered about, endlessly dissected by true-crime blogs and television documentaries. Yet law enforcement never looked away from Michael, ultimately leading to his arrest and conviction.
In her blistering, no-holds-barred memoir, Laurel Woods pulls back the velvet curtain on a life lived in the shadow of sex, money, and murder. With her father locked away and an empire dropped squarely into her lap, Laurel was forced to navigate a ruthless business while fighting a relentless war for her father's freedom.
The blogs think they know the angles. The documentaries missed the quiet devastation.
This is the real story.