Damon Lawner paints a vivid picture of Hunter Biden’s visit to an exclusive setting, likening the scene to a child’s unabashed exploration in a candy store. However, this was no ordinary locale—it was a high-end, exotic sex club.

In this intriguing environment where few rules exist, Biden reportedly managed to overstep the boundaries. According to Lawner, the founder of the club, in an interview with the Daily Mail, Biden’s actions breached the establishment’s limited regulations.

Lawner alleges that Biden engaged in inappropriate behavior by indiscriminately touching female patrons, violating the club’s cardinal rule: “Always ask before you touch!”

Confronting Biden about his alleged conduct, Lawner, aged 55, faced consequences himself, highlighting the complexities of enforcing the club’s code of conduct.

And when Lawner, 55, took him to task for his alleged actions, he was the one who had to pay the price.

‘By outing Hunter, I didn’t just anger one person, I angered a protected ecosystem,’ Lawner, who voted for Joe Biden in 2020, said. 

‘Hollywood is tribal, and I broke ranks. 

‘The response wasn’t subtle. I was banned from the club I founded. I was frozen out socially, and I was quietly blacklisted by people who had relied on my discretion for years.

Hunter Biden was publicly ousted by SNCTM owner Damon Lawner for allegedly touching the spouses of elite members who paid upwards of $75,000 to attend the club’s parties 

Lawner says his actions against the president’s son backfired, costing him his elite social life and leading to what he describes as a virtual blacklist among his Hollywood friends

‘Work dried up. Relationships ended. Trust disappeared,’ he reveals.

The club terminated Lawner’s membership, saying in a statement to the Los Angeles Times: ‘We neither confirm nor deny the identities of our attendees. 

‘Furthermore, we uphold a strict code of conduct, and any infringement leads to a lifetime ban. Please note that Mr. Lawner’s membership has been revoked, effective immediately.’

Hunter became overly handsy with the wives and girlfriends of the liberated and liberal upscale couples that frequented SNCTM, during his one and only visit to the Beverly Hills club in 2018 – between the end of his first marriage to Kathleen Buhle and his current one to Melissa Cohen – Lawner said.

His short time in the club was enough to prove to Lawner that he really didn’t belong. So Lawner ousted Hunter and in 2022 publicly outed him, he says. 

Lawner had founded SNCTM, also known as Sanctum, in 2013, in a Beverly Hills mansion, and modeled the erotic scene on the Stanley Kubrick-directed, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman sexy thriller Eyes Wide Shut that centers on Cruise’s character’s visit to a secret orgy that turns him on.

In real life, the almost 7,000 square foot SNCTM party venue in Beverly Hills featured seven bedrooms, a stripper pole and a sex swing.

The dress code required the partygoers to wear masquerade masks, black tie, or lingerie – reminiscent of the Eyes Wide Shut costume play – that eventually gave way as the monthly parties progressed.

Lawner required guests to wear masquerade masks, black tie, or lingerie – an Eyes Wide Shut–style dress code that helped turn the club’s exclusivity into a multimillion-dollar business

Lawner fashioned SNCTM after the sex club featured in the 1999 Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman movie Eyes Wide Shut

Lawner launched SNCTM in 2013 at a Beverly Hills mansion, drawing inspiration from Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and its secret-society themes

Lawner became a millionaire from the club’s revenues and its exclusivity. 

But after his Biden confrontation, he claims, he has gone from an elite life with powerful friends to ‘having spent much of the last year moving between couches and floors, and trying to figure out what rebuilding my life even looked like after that kind of fallout.

‘The message was clear: breaking the code comes with consequences.’ 

Lawner’s social and club circle had included the elite of California society – politicians, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, powerful attorneys, Beverly Hills psychiatrists and plastic surgeons with star clientele, all-star sports figures, and Hollywood celebrities – mostly liberal politically and registered Democrats.

Among the club’s attendees are said to have been Gwyneth Paltrow, her husband, producer and writer Brad Falchuk, and, according to the LA Times, TV host and comedian Bill Maher and singer and songwriter Steven Tyler of the group Aerosmith.

The Daily Mail approached them all for comment but none replied. Nor did Hunter Biden. 

During the height of the club’s popularity and global media coverage, Lawner and SNCTM were featured in a multi-part podcast narrated by Vogue magazine’s online sex and relationships columnist, and his life and club was the basis of a Showtime docuseries, Naked SNCTM.

In an interview published on Paltrow’s lifestyle site Goop, Lawner said his inspiration for creating SNCTM was to have ‘a meaningful conversation about sex, relationship, erotica, fetish, love, pain, and ultimately pleasure of the highest vibration that we might reach together’.

But all that changed after Lawner eighty-sixed the 46th president’s son and made his banning public.

Lurid tales and photos of Hunter Biden’s uninhibited drug use and bizarre sexual behavior received much media attention during his father Joe’s one-term White House reign.

Hunter was the target of intense IRS scrutiny, allegedly for fraudulently taking deductions of personal expenses from his business revenue.

Lawner publicly outed Hunter Biden in 2022, four years after the former First Son allegedly made his one and only visit to SNCTM 

The controversy coincided with widespread media coverage of photos and allegations involving Hunter Biden, as well as IRS assertions that he claimed personal expenses as business deductions, including a reported $10,000 payment to a sex club 

An IRS agent whistleblower later told Congress: ‘We’ve talked to the person who owned the club. We know that $10,000 went to pay for a sex club. 

‘We’ve talked to the person who owned that sex club, and they confirmed that he [Biden] was there – that was deducted on the tax return.’

The agent called SNCTM ‘a high-end orgy organization with annual fees up to $75,000.’

A year ago this month, just weeks before leaving office, President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to Hunter, who had previously pleaded guilty to gun charges and nine tax-related charges, shielding him from any future prosecution.

Lawner first went public about Hunter’s raunchy night at the club in an Instagram post. In the interview with the Daily Mail, he revealed details never before made public.

‘The backlash,’ he says, ‘didn’t show up as a formal blacklist, but it was very real.

‘Former clients stopped returning calls. The consistent concern was privacy. 

‘Even though I never outed anyone before and never did again, the perception shifted overnight. If I were willing to name Hunter, people assumed they might be next.’

Lawner says he never heard ‘directly’ from friends like Paltrow, who once gave SNCTM a rave review in her GOOP newsletter. 

In his final weeks in office, President Biden granted Hunter a full and unconditional pardon for previously pleaded guilty gun and tax offenses, shielding him from any future legal action

Lawner claims he received no direct support from friends such as Gwyneth Paltrow, despite her earlier review of SNCTM in GOOP

Lawner says the last year was spent moving between couches and floors, grappling with how to rebuild his life after the fallout 

But he revealed that Falchuk, Paltrow’s husband, had developed a ‘scripted series based on my life’ that was ‘pitched widely,’ but didn’t sell despite strong creative support. 

‘The feedback was vague, but the sense was that my story had become too radioactive as a result of the Hunter Biden affair.

‘I was shocked by how hard it had backfired,’ he says. ‘I knew it would be a massive story, but I underestimated the professional consequences. 

‘I broke a rule I had written myself around anonymity, and that single act overshadowed everything else I’d built.

‘Politically, it didn’t turn me into a partisan so much as it turned me off on the whole system.

‘I voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and considered myself a Democrat at the time. After everything that followed, I became deeply disillusioned with institutions on all sides.

‘I didn’t vote in 2024, and I don’t align myself with any party now. I’m deliberately apolitical.’

His plans now, he says, are to produce a black tie masquerade New Year’s Eve party in Los Angeles under a new banner, Aura.

But, Lawner notes, ‘The same Hollywood power players who distanced themselves after the Hunter story won’t be part of it.

‘This isn’t a statement. It’s simply how things now stand.’