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Organization Establishment Amsterdam Netherlands 1980s 1990s Child_Prostitution Warwick_Spinks	Private Organization	The Gay Palace was a club at 44 Spuistraat in Amsterdam managed by Warwick Spinks in the late 1980s, described by S. Dovey as a boy brothel masquerading as a gay nightclub.	Amsterdam, Netherlands	2026-10-09

The Gay Palace was a club at 44 Spuistraat in Amsterdam, managed by Warwick Spinks in the late 1980s, according to Nick Davies.¹ S. Dovey described it as a boy brothel masquerading as a gay nightclub.² Davies wrote that it and Boys Club 21, across the road, each had "a perfectly legal business, running a bar and offering the services of adult male prostitutes who could take customers upstairs to bedrooms," and that Williams and Spinks "had much wider and crueller interests."³ Spinks told The Guardian in 1998: "All I was doing was running a legally licensed brothel which was controlled by the state and underwent regular checks."⁴

A Scotland Yard informant claimed to have seen films screened at the Gay Palace showing boys aged eleven to fourteen in bondage being raped by masked men, and stated that Spinks was selling copies of a "special videotape" for 4,000 pounds showing a boy being tortured.²³ A different informant named "Frank" described another film Spinks had shown him of a boy being tortured with needles, castrated, and cut open with a knife inside a barn.²

The Gay Palace operated across the street from Boys Club 21, managed by Alan Williams. S. Dovey wrote that together the two establishments formed the core of British-run child trafficking operations in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, investigated under Operation Framework in 1992-93, that the establishments were presented as legitimate gay businesses, providing cover for their actual function as trafficking hubs, and that clients included prominent figures from across Europe.²

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Davies's 1998 article lists "The Boys for Men Club at 44b Spuistraat" beside the Boys Club 21, the Blue Boy and the Why Not, and says Spinks "worked at Boys For Men in Spuistraat."⁵ Davies's 2000 article places him running the Gay Palace at number 44.³

Gay Palace, Rotterdam

A feature in De Arbeiderspers of August 29, 1990, headed "Gay Palace - 6 jaar 'druk en knus'," concerns a Gay Palace in Rotterdam, described as Rotterdam's largest and only gay discotheque, six years old in 1990, whose owner is quoted: "Wij zijn hier niet zo extravagent, wij zijn wat huiselijker" [We are not so extravagant here, we are a bit cosier].⁶ It is a separate Rotterdam business with its own owner. The records found show no connection between it and the Amsterdam club managed by Spinks.

Footnotes

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1. Nick Davies, "A paedophile ring in Amsterdam," The Guardian, April 5, 1997, https://www.nickdavies.net/1997/04/05/a-paedophile-ring-in-amsterdam/ ↩︎

2. Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar. ↩︎

3. Nick Davies, "Paedophilia is easy 2: how a paedophile murder inquiry fell apart," The Guardian, November 27, 2000, https://www.nickdavies.net/2000/11/27/paedophilia-is-easy-2-how-a-paedophile-murder-inquiry-fell-apart/ ↩︎

4. Kate Connolly and Owen Bowcott, "Fugitive Briton linked to Dutch child porn hits at 'witch-hunt' from Prague refuge," The Guardian, July 31, 1998, page 15. ↩︎

5. Nick Davies, "Paedophile networks traffick young boys across Europe," dated October 1, 1998 and marked "Previously unpublished," https://www.nickdavies.net/1998/10/01/paedophile-network-trafficks-young-boys-across-europe/ ↩︎

6. De Arbeiderspers, "Gay Palace - 6 jaar 'druk en knus'," August 29, 1990, Delpher ddd:010948872:a0173. ↩︎