Chevrestt for NewsPenthouse Executive Club says James Clooney is a lap dance deadbeat.

A Long Island man who racked up a whopping $46,000 tab at a Manhattan strip club is being sued as a lap dance deadbeat.

James Clooney allegedly stiffed the Penthouse Executive Club on $46,698 worth of booze, steaks and private time with the club's stable of strippers, according to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The strip club says in court papers that Clooney and his guests ran up the tab at the W. 45th St. flesh palace and its in-house Robert's Steakhouse from May 2008 to last December.

"Although Mr. Clooney made some small partial payments from time to time...there remains due...$46,698.18, no portion of which has been paid," the suit says.

A lawyer and a spokesman for the Penthouse Executive Club did not return calls. Clooney could not immediately be reached at his Oyster Bay home.

Clooney joins the ranks of other so-called lap dunces who have landed in hot water over strip-club shenanigans, including a Westchester man who was sued by the Penthouse club for not paying a $102,000 tab and a Missouri executive who got sacked from his job after he put $241,000 on his corporate card at Scores.

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