Vita Luxury Destination Club Accused of Unethical Business Practices

By: Destination Club News
Date: November 13, 2008

Following the arrest of Vita Luxury's Thanos Papalexis for murder charges, former Vita Luxury employees are speaking out about some rather questionable business practices at their former destination club.

According to Brian Eisenberg, Vita Luxury's Marketing Director, "It was a very sexually charged atmosphere. Thanos always wanted the office to have an image of luxury and opulence and wealth."

According to a former employee who wished to remain anonymous, Papalexis asked employees to help organize swingers parties at the $11 million mansion he had rented on the beach.

"He'd call those 'bliss parties,'" said the employee. "He used some lower-level Vita employees as valets and servers."

According to employees, two female employees were working on placing mailing labels on thousands of envelopes for a Vita Luxury mailing. Papalexis apparently offered breast-augmentation surgery to the one who finished first.

Earlier this year, Vita Luxury closed, ending yet another luxury travel club attached to Papalexis. He had also been attached to Grand Legacy Club, another travel organization that resembled a destination club. Prior to his arrest, Papalexis most recently served as CEO of Sisemen Corporation, affectionately named by spelling "nemesis" backwards.

"Some of us didn't get paid for months," said the former Vita Luxury employee. "No one wanted to quit because Thanos kept saying we'd be rich. But some of us lost their homes, cars, marriages over this guy, and we weren't going to quit."

Papalexis was arrested on Friday for the murder of a man living above one of his real estate holdings in 2000. Allegedly, Papalexis and two other men killed Charalambos Christodoulides when the man wouldn't move out, costing Papalexis $120,000 per week in interest to a loan shark that loaned him the money to purchase the real estate.

According to Eisenberg, "We had a meeting in his office, and he said debts were piling up and he wanted to disappear for a while then come back and start over."

Papalexis is being held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail. It is unclear if Papalexis will fight the extradition back to London at a hearing next week.