Terry Brown

Terry Rex Brown (1956 or 1957 – July 2025) was a New Zealand brothel owner from Christchurch. Until 2010, he owned 12 sex venues located in Christchurch, including Charlie's Massage Lounge and the nightclub Voodoo Lounge.

Biography Before venturing into the sex industry, Brown was a fisherman. He was also involved in ostrich and deer farming, property development and stock cars and founded the Up, Up and Away company in 1998, which was reported as being an escort service, serving rural South Island communities by helicopter through the provision of strippers and "sexperts". The charges were later dropped, and nobody else was prosecuted. Brown was loosely connected to the murder of Angela Blackmoore. Blackmoore worked at stripclubs owned by Brown, and had met her husband, William, while he was working as a bouncer at one of Brown's venues. In 2019, David Peter Hawken attempted to implicate Brown in the murder, saying Brown was responsible for "all the carnage in town" at the time the murder took place;

Brown was a high-profile owner of brothels in Christchurch. Prior to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, he owned 12 sex venues around the city, including Charlie's Massage Lounge and Voodoo Lounge nightclub. Both venues were firebombed in 2000. Brown filed for bankruptcy in 2001 after failing to file tax returns and having outstanding tax debt for his businesses. In 2005, two years after prostitution was legalised in New Zealand, Brown successfully appealed to the High Court to quash a Christchurch City Council by-law that would have prevented brothels operating in the suburbs of the city. The two reportedly had a feud over disagreement about a shared office car park in Kaiapoi, and Cosgrove's work to outlaw BZP party pills, which Brown sold from some of his businesses. In 2010, he was convicted of owning unlicensed firearms and fined $400. In 2013, Brown purchased a hydroslide from Timaru District Council, and announced he had plans to install the hydroslide at the Picton waterfront to "revitalise" the area. The plans never eventuated and the hydroslide was resold to a sharemilker from Geraldine in an auction in 2015.

In 2013, Brown told Stuff that he "might become a consultant to the sex industry [in Christchurch], but [will] see what the city looks like before [he] go[es] back and reinvest." In 2014, he told Stuff that he was planning to return to the sex industry. Brown said that "following the [Canterbury] quakes and the influx of construction workers for the rebuild, there was more demand than ever for sex workers."