Pagan priestess fights bar knockback

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A SELF-PROFESSED druid priestess has said a Melbourne bar refused to let her in because of her age and the mistaken belief that she was Jewish.

Morgan, 51, who uses only one name, has told the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal that crowd controllers at the Cushion Lounge in bayside St Kilda denied her entry when she went there about 1.30am on Monday, December 12 last year.

But the staff and the bar's manger claim a private function that night was the reason for refusing entry.

Former manager and part-owner Daniel Centofanti said he could not prove there was a function booked because he had sold the business in May, along with his bookings diary, which had since been lost.

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