Spotlight: L.A. Restaurateur Buying Crazy Horse Nightclub

Santa Ana’s Crazy Horse Steak House & Saloon, often lauded as one of the nation’s top nightclubs for country and western entertainment, is being sold to a Los Angeles restaurant owner. Jay Nuccio, co-owner of Little Joe’s Italian restaurant in Chinatown, is buying the Crazy Horse, a 250-seat club that for 18 years has featured such stars as Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Nuccio said the club’s format won’t change.