Somen Banerjee Somen Banerjee Somen "Steve" Banerjee (; October 8, 1946 – October 23, 1994) was an Indian American entrepreneur and co-founder of Chippendales. After operating a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club, Banerjee bought a failed Los Angeles club named "Destiny II" and turned it into a nightclub that featured female mud wrestling and a "Female Exotic Dancing Night." It was the first of its kind in the United States. He partnered with Paul Snider (husband and eventual killer of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten) and attorney Bruce Nahin. Banerjee was later charged with having enlisted the aid of Ray
Neil Snider of TWU in 1974. Snider led TWU from its original status as a 350-student junior college to its current position as a 3,500-student Christian liberal-arts university, granting degrees in more than 50 areas of study. The school was recognized as a four-year college by the government of British Columbia in 1979 and accepted into membership by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) in 1984. Snider retired in June 2006. Snider is a member of the AUCC and the Council of Western Canadian University Presidents, as well as a board member of several charitable organizations. He lives in