Six-bedroom brothel in Melbourne 's Australia will go up for auction on May 1 . Edwardian-style shopfront was owned by Wei Tang who was jailed for keeping five Thai women as sex slaves . Property , formerly known as Club 417 , comes with a brothel licence . Tang was convicted in 2006 for forcing women to work off debts incurred by bringing them from Thailand to Fitzroy . It stopped operating as a brothel in 2013 and has been vacant ever since .
Six-bedroom brothel in Melbourne 's Fitzroy will go up for auction on May 1 . Edwardian-style shopfront was owned by Wei Tang who was jailed for keeping five Thai women as sex slaves . Property , formerly known as Club 417 , comes with a brothel licence . Tang was convicted in 2006 for forcing women to work off debts incurred by bringing them from Thailand to Australia . It stopped operating as a brothel in 2013 and has been vacant ever since .