Infamous Bunny Ranch brothels hit market for $34M…
Three of America’s most infamous pleasure palaces are formally up for grabs.
A legendary trio of licensed Nevada brothels once ruled by the late pimp-turned politician Dennis Hof has hit the market — for an eye-popping $33.9 million asking price.
Dubbed the Bunny Ranch Legacy Portfolio, the package deal deal, being offered by Hof’s property, bundles together three notorious cathouses — alongside a sprawling footprint of desert real estate, positioned not far from Nevada’s capital, Carson City.
Prostitutes take a break from work at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch close to Carson City, Nevada. The property is an element of a portfolio at the moment up for sale for $33.9 million. Getty Images
The Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Sagebrush Ranch and Love Ranch working amenities are on the market for $34 million in Lyon County, Nevada. Select Commercial Group/Coldwell Banker Real Estate
An indication for the Love Ranch Las Vegas brothel is shown on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, in Crystal, Nevada. Getty Images
Billed as a “nationally recognized Nevada enterprise,” the deal consists of the world-famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch, as nicely as Sagebrush Ranch and Love Ranch, along with residential property, highway-frontage land, warehouses, storage amenities, and development parcels.
All told, the portfolio encompasses 11 particular person real estate parcels — totaling 49.79 acres and more than 23,500 sq. toes of buildings, according to the itemizing.
The deal also throws in furnishings, fixtures, gear, company-owned automobiles, stock and business help belongings — plus the recognizable commerce names, advertising and marketing supplies, web sites, branding and other mental property, “subject to seller exclusions,” which weren’t immediately made clear.
The sellers say they’re even keen to stick around and show the new potential house owners the ropes — offering up to a yr of transition and training help under phrases to be negotiated.
Detailed financials, however, are being saved under the covers.
Owner Dennis Hof stands in entrance of the Moonlite BunnyRanch in 1999. USA TODAY Network via GWN Connect
The Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound House, Nev. is just one of three legal brothels included in the sale, announced nearly a decade after infamous former proprietor Dennis Hof died in 2018. Bloomberg via Getty Images
All told, the portfolio encompasses 11 particular person real estate parcels — totaling 49.79 acres and more than 23,500 sq. toes of buildings, according to the itemizing. Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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The crown jewel of the package deal is Moonlite Bunny Ranch at 69 Moonlight Road in Mound House — about seven miles east of Carson City.
The 7,437-square-foot property turned arguably America’s most well-known legal brothel under Hof, who purchased the business in 1992 and turned it into a pop-culture spectacle.
The ranch shot to fame thanks in half to HBO’s racy actuality collection “Cathouse,” which pulled back the curtain on life inside Hof’s operation and made the brothel and its proprietor tv stars.
Behind the neon indicators, though, the properties served as the backdrop for some of Nevada’s wildest and darkest headlines.
In 2003, former Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil was charged with misdemeanor battery after a girl working at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch accused the rocker of grabbing her around the throat and throwing her against a wall.
Another Hof property in Nye County, Nev., also called Love Ranch for a time, was the scene of one of the most infamous episodes linked to Hof’s brothel empire.
Former Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom was discovered unconscious there in October 2015 after spending a number of days at the brothel, triggering a medical emergency that left him in a coma and preventing for his life.
Hof died at the Nye County property, close to Las Vegas, in 2018, hours after his 72nd birthday celebration — which was attended by Flavor Flav, Ron Jeremy and others. That building will not be half of the sale.
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