After hours of negotiations behind closed doors, the owner of Richmond’s Club Velvet agreed to convictions this morning on three misdemeanor counts related to having sex with a minor and an 18-year-old woman.

Two of the charges involve club owner Samuel J.T. Moore III having sexual relations with someone under 18, and the third involved filming the encounter with the 18-year-old.

Richmond Circuit Judge Beverly W. Snukals said Moore will receive a suspended sentence on two of the counts, and on the third count — having sex with someone between 15 and 17 — she set sentencing for June 26.

Prosecutors said they have agreed to seek a sentence of at least 30 days, but no more than 90 days.

Moore entered Alford pleas to all three charges. An Alford plea means Moore does not admit guilt but concedes that prosecutors have evidence to convict him.

Because he entered pleas only to misdemeanors, he will not lose his license from the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

"It’s the end of our involvement for criminal purposes," Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring said after court.

Moore dressed conservatively for court today, wearing a navy blazer, white shirt, pink tie, tan slacks and brown loafers.

Moore had initially been charged with two felonies — producing child pornography and unlawfully filming the acts — and three misdemeanors — unlawfully filming sex with the 18-year-old woman and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Moore was scheduled to go on trial later this month.

Last month, Moore unsuccessfully lobbied the court to dismiss all charges against him for filming sex with the 17-year-old girl, who was married when the encounter occurred on Feb. 20, three days before police led a search with federal and state agents of the club and residence above it.

This morning, the attorneys — Herring and Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Toni Randall and Moore’s legal team of Michael Morchower and Lee Kilduff — shuffled back and forth between two witness rooms in Richmond’s John Marshall Courts Building.

After several starts and stops inside the courtroom, Moore entered his pleas shortly after 11 a.m.

An investigation of Club Velvet began in late August, based on a former employee’s account of illegal drug distribution, prostitution and sex. The former employee — described in a police affidavit as a prostitute and drug dealer — talked to police while she was in Richmond City Jail.

In an undercover investigation, state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents and informants purchased drugs, nude lap dances and illegal sex acts from club employees, according to a police investigator’s affidavit that was the basis for a warrant to search Moore’s club and residence.

Documents, videotapes, and other information seized in the February search have been turned over to a federal grand jury for its investigation.

Herring, meantime, said his office considered it fair that Moore is looking at jail time.

"We were all pretty charged up because it was Sam Moore," Herring said. "But it was still a defendant who didn’t have a history of criminal convictions."