Former bartender at famous SF topless bar Condor Club sentenced in manager’s killing

A former bartender at San Francisco’s legendary Condor Club has been sentenced to a year in jail for helping her boyfriend after he allegedly killed the topless bar’s longtime manager.

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Asia Lozano Morton, 26, pleaded no contest to being an accessory after the fact in the October 2025 killing of Mark Calcagni. Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lynnette Brown sentenced Morton on Friday to one year in county jail, followed by one year of mandatory supervision.

Morton’s former co-worker and boyfriend, Richard Anthony Lund, 43, has pleaded not guilty to murder and firearm-related charges. His jury trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 28.

Calcagni, 60, was killed after returning from work early on the morning of Oct. 3, 2025. At approximately 6:25 a.m., a Santa Rosa resident reported seeing an unresponsive person lying in the roadway on the 2200 block of Brookwood Avenue. Officers found Calcagni dead from gunshot wounds a short distance from his home.

Investigators allege Lund waited for Calcagni to return home and then shot him. Police initially said Morton helped Lund plan the attack, but prosecutors did not charge her with conspiracy or murder. Instead, Morton pleaded no contest to assisting Lund after the killing. Prosecutors alleged she helped him secure two vehicles and communicated with him around the time of the shooting.

At Friday’s sentencing hearing, Morton’s attorney asked the judge to allow her to serve her sentence through electronic monitoring or work release, the Press Democrat reported. Morton spent about nine months outside custody wearing an ankle monitor and had not violated the conditions of her release. Brown denied the request, pointing to Morton’s conduct after Calcagni’s death and what the judge considered an inadequate expression of remorse. 

“The letter really fails to take accountability at all and the letter is frankly inadequate with minimal remorse stated,” Brown said of a five-sentence statement Morton submitted, according to the Press Democrat. The judge called Morton’s actions after Calcagni’s death “incredibly concerning.”

Morton’s lack of previous convictions and her age factored into the sentence. After the hearing, Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies took her into custody to begin serving the one-year jail term.

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Santa Rosa police arrested Lund on Oct. 24 at the Dublin apartment complex where he and Morton lived. Morton was arrested a short time later at San Francisco International Airport after returning from international travel. Detectives then searched the couple’s residence for evidence. The investigation initially produced few leads, police said, but witness interviews, surveillance footage and digital evidence led detectives to Lund and Morton three weeks after the killing.

Both had worked at the Condor, the famed North Beach strip club managed by Calcagni. The two had recently been fired, and Santa Rosa police previously told SFGATE that their termination was believed to be “at least one motivating factor” in the killing. Calcagni was the longtime general manager of the Condor and also managed Vanity San Francisco, another adult club less than a block away.

The Condor opened at Broadway and Columbus Avenue as a music venue in 1958. It became notorious in 1964 when waitress Carol Doda began dancing topless for patrons, earning the club its claim as America’s first topless bar.

The club was also the scene of one of San Francisco’s strangest deaths. In 1983, bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo was crushed while having sex with dancer Theresa Hill on top of the Condor’s mechanical piano. The mechanism was activated, raising the piano toward the ceiling and asphyxiating Ferrozzo. Although police investigators believed his death was accidental, the bizarre circumstances have inspired conspiracy theories, including a suggestion in a 2024 documentary that Ferrozzo was killed in a mob hit.

After numerous changes in name and ownership, the venue eventually returned to its historic identity. It now bills itself as “The Original Topless Gentlemen’s Club Since 1964.”

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.