Diamond (The Players Club)

Diana Armstrong, also known as Diamond, is the main protagonist of the 1998 dark-comedy thriller film The Players Club. She is a college student who while she was working at a shoe store, two strippers Ronnie and Trix convinced her to work as a stripper for the Players Club to earn quicker money. She accepts the offer but a couple years into the game, she began seeing the both of them for who and what they really were and she needed to separate herself from them.
She was played by LisaRaye McCoy.
== Biography ==
After an argument with her father because of a college disagreement, Diana moved out of her parents home and bought an apartment to raise her child and live with her boyfriend but he "needed his space". Because of this, she needed to put off her college semester to catch up with her personal responsibilities. While she is working at a shoe store, she meets two strippers named Ronnie and Trix and they both work at the Players Club. Ronnie asks Diana to help her with her heels and while she was doing that, she gives Diana a stare like a predator eyeing its prey. Trix convinces Diana that in order to get quicker money, she can get it done at the Players Club. 
Diana headed over to the club meeting the manager Dollar Bill. Dollar Bill gives her the job after looking at her backside seeing her body was perfect enough to work at the club and giving her the stage name Diamond. On Diamond's first night, she is nervous. While getting her heels on, Diamond is smacked on the behind by Ronnie and she offers her a drink to calm her down. She makes Diamond dance on her to calm her into thinking it was nothing. Diamond soon starts seeing that Ronnie was a bad influence as she watched her grab another dancer by her hair demanding money from a party and her calling Diamond a "ho" twice. Diamond goes to the upper floor and is forced to dance for a man named Myron for his money. While Diamond danced, Myron gave Diamond a creepy star grin.
Things were going well for Diamond as she managed to earn enough money to pay for school and neared graduation. She got a new boyfriend named Lance who she met at the club and additionally her relationship with her father went well but soon, everything would fall apart when her younger cousin Ebony flew over to live with her. Diamond needed to promise her parents that she would keep her out of trouble. 
At the club, Diamond brought over Ebony and she immediately wants the job being influenced by Dollar Bill. This would become a huge problem because Ebony is out of control staying out all night, drinking, going to private house parties and forcing her older cousin to find her. Diamond arrived to the club to get dressed but before she can go to the locker room, Tina, the bartender, pulled her aside and told her about Ebony being around Ronnie and Trix and that she was already downstairs. While heading there, she greets Myron who turns around to give her a creepy look and grin. A panicked Dollar Bill demands the ladies to go upstairs and dance. Diamond, who just got dressed, asked her cousin where she had been and she tells her she had been partying with Ronnie and Trix at house parties but was only just dancing but Diamond didn't believe that. Ronnie then walks in and smacks Diamond's behind again telling her to watch where she keeps it. While Diamond eyed her, Ronnie notices and tells Ebony she wanted to holler at her but Diamond prevents that. Upstairs, Diamond did some dancing and earned more money. 
When Diamond arrived home, her boyfriend is waiting for her while sitting in the dark. He was mad that she was working at the club instead of spending quality time with him even though she met him there. Ebony then comes out wearing a t-shirt and undergarments and Diamond confronts her for this (Lance has shown he was falling for Ebony behind Diana's back twice). During class, Diamond, who had been up for half the night, fell asleep through her class. Professor Mills woke her up and asked her how she was gonna pass if she kept sleeping through the classes figuring she'd cheat but Diamond assured him she would not do that because she only trusted her own work. Professor Mills tells her to get some rest but not in his class. 
That night, Diamond arrived to the club searching for her cousin. Finding her in the locker room conversing with Ronnie and Trix, Diamond asked them she needed to speak with her but Ebony refused to talk. Diamond soon catches a drunk Ebony in the back of the two perverted partners Reggie and Clyde's car. She tells her to get out or she'll be raped by them. Ebony soon tells them to let her out and Diamond walks Ebony over attempting to talk some sense into her drunken cousin but she barely wants to listen, and she also mentions what happened between her cousin and Ronnie in the past. Diamond gives her cousin one final set of advice; "Make the money. Don't let it make you", but yet again, Ebony barely listened. While Diamond is driving to her parents' place to pick up her son, she remembered what Ebony was talking about. The flashback shows Ronnie, Trix, and two clients sitting in a pool; Diamond was there but she was inside the place lying down wasted on a sofa. The client tells Ronnie to "do" Diamond and so she got out the pool, approached the wasted Diamond, and proceeded to raping her. 
When Diamond arrived to her parents' home, her mother asked if Ebony was also working at the club but Diamond answered "no". Her father however saw this as an excuse and he leaves the room irritated. Her mother told Diamond to keep her out the bar but Diamond told her mother she couldn't stop Ebony from doing what she wanted so all her mother could recommend was to find a way. 
While Ebony is returning to the apartment after partying with Ronnie in an apartment full of male ATF AGENTS, she hears Diamond and Lance arguing. Lance tells her one final time to stop working in the club but Diamond refused and told him that she isn't worried about how he felt about it and that she needed the job to pay for school. Diamond and Lance seem to have split up after he warns her that he'll be gone if she continued being at the club but Diamond didn’t care about that and so he leaves. 
While Diamond is at school getting her graduation cap and gown fitted, it's shown that even the college students knew she worked at the Players Club so this gets one of the male students to poke fun at her by telling her he and his boys would pay to see her dance at the lunch table throwing a dollar in her face. Diamond walked away embarrassed. 
At the club, Diamond is emotional about everything, from Lance to college. Tina goes to check up on her. Diamond told her what she'd been going through and that she was getting sick of everything so Tina encourages her to not quit school and to graduate because soon enough, the students would look stupid to think negative about Diamond when she’d soon be successful. After their talk, Ronnie and Trix walk up on Diamond to make sure Ebony would go to her brother Junior's “bachelor party” but Diamond wasn't looking to deal with them so she went upstairs. While the rapper Uncle Luke was settling in the club, Diamond is dancing for Myron. When her professor arrives to the club and spots her, Diamond quickly runs to the locker room upset and embarrassed. Ronnie then enters the room to comfort her but was really intending to make her pain even worse by trying to rape her a second time. 
After a shooting done by Reggie, Diamond felt better and practiced her news broadcasting humorously reporting the then shooting. Blue, the club's DJ, walked Diamond to her car. Blue gave her his number and she drives off but what she doesn't know is that she was followed by Ronnie, Trix, and eventually Myron. 
While Diamond is unlocking her apartment door, Myron approaches her with sick intentions. After revealing he always followed her home, Diamond is terrified and she quickly opens her door. Myron then attempts to grab her showing he was trying to rape her and when she managed to get inside the safety of her apartment, Myron aggressively attempted to get inside pounding at the door. Diamond ran to her and Lance's room to tell Lance what just went down but when she opened the door, she caught Lance and Ebony having sex. Diamond tries to attack Ebony, who ran to the bathroom, but Lance stopped her and the two started arguing. Lance tried to make excuses but Diamond was not trying to hear any of them and she yelled for Lance to get out of her apartment but Lance refused until Diamond got out her revolver and began shooting at him which soon had him running out the apartment in his undergarments. Diamond then yelled for Ebony to get out of the bathroom. Ebony tearfully apologizes but Diamond does not accept her apology. Diamond then said that she wasn't mad at her given the fact she was always a "ho" even before she moved in with her regretting she ever allowed her in her apartment and being around Lance. Diamond also said that the reason she was hurting so much was because she thought they were family and that Ebony loved her but turns out she was wrong. Diamond fooled Ebony into thinking she was leaving to stay at her mother's place until she could find a new place to live. When Ebony opened the door, Diamond hit her in the face and demanded her to leave her apartment. 
On campus, Diamond and professor Mills finally talk since they sighted each other at the club (prior to that, Diamond did not appear in his classes because she was too afraid to face him after what happened in the club). He understood why she worked there letting her know that he called up a good friend who worked at BET which there could be a spot for her. 
During her first date with Blue, Ebony called Diamond from Ronnie's younger brother Junior's hotel to apologize for everything she's done but Diamond was not trying to hear it and hung up on her. Ebony called again to tell Diamond to pick her up from Junior's “bachelor party” soon but Diamond barely wanted to do that and hung up. After their date, Diamond, having a change of heart, arrived to the motel with Blue to pick up Ebony but when they get inside, they find Ebony lying on the bed passed out after being beaten and raped. Diamond tended to her while Blue called 911. 
Diana headed to the club to fight Ronnie for all the perverted things she had done to her and Ebony. She tells her about it but Ronnie lies. Diana tells all the dancers to leave the dressing room but they do not comply and they continue getting prepared. Diana repeats herself by shooting the ceiling clearing out the room. She gives the revolver to Blue to keep everyone out as she gets ready to beat Ronnie. After punching her in the face nearly knocking her unconscious, Diana hit Ronnie in the face again for all she's done to Ebony and kicked her in the stomach for all she's done to her. Before the duo could leave the club, Diana hit Trix in the face for all she's done to them as well. Dollar Bill fires Diana for this but she didn’t care and hoped Dollar would go bankrupt in his club. Going outside, the police arrive to arrest Ronnie and Trix for their connection to the rape after they've arrested Junior for the rape. They asked Diana if they were in the club and she told them they were. 
After the destruction of the Players Club, Diana looked on at the wreckage as she reminisces on her time as a stripper telling the viewers that she loved and hated the club both for providing a way for the girls to reach their goals and for all the girls that were destroyed in the process. 
A month later, Diana and her cousin Ebony are in good terms again and Diana has graduated. She tells the viewers the fates of everyone through the story. 
* Ebony moved back home to Tallahassee.
* Blue is a top DJ and they’re officially still together meaning Diana found someone who would treat her better than her two exes.
* Ronnie and Trix have been released from jail and moved to work at Club Sugar Daddies following the destruction of the Players Club.
* Junior got sentenced to life or death for Ebony's rape and he never got married.
* Reggie and Clyde were last seen at a Freaknik in Atlanta.
* Brooklyn and K.C. still work for St. Louis while St. Louis continues to run the South.
* Peters and Freeman, the two crooked cops, still harass people all day.
* Li'l Man manages a club in Chicago.
* Dollar Bill was never heard from again. St. Louis' boys may have tortured and killed him for not paying up the $10,000 dollars.
* And Diana is now a news anchor.
 
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