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Dennis Hof, Nevada Brothel Owner And Reality TV Star, Wins GOP Primary For State Assembly
Dennis Hof, a legal pimp and reality TV star, won a Republican pri- mary on Tuesday for Nevada’s state legislature.
The Art of the Pimp author gar- nered nearly 43 percent of the votes, overcom- ing incumbent James Oscarson to secure the Republican nomi- nation for Nevada State Assembly District 36, where he owns several legal brothels.
Hof is the star of HBO’s adult reali- ty series “Cathouse,” which documents the lives of sex workers employed at his high-profile broth- el Moonlite BunnyRanch, located in Carson
City, Nevada. He also owns the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, where NBA play- er Lamar Odom was found uncon- scious during a four-day visit in October 2015.
“It’s all because Donald Trump
was the Christopher Columbus for me,” Hof told The Associated Press about his Tuesday victory. “He found the way and I jumped on it.”
Hof, 71, has billed himself as
the “Trump from Pahrump,” according to the Los Angeles Times. After los- ing to Oscarson in 2016 while run- ning as a Libertarian, Hof announced his switch to the Republican Party a month after
Trump won the presidential elec- tion.
“We’re both famous — and infamous,” Hof told the Times in March. “We’re both high-profile. We’re both celebrities. We’re both successful
businessmen. We both have reality television shows. We both have written books. We’re both rich and we can’t be bought.”
Nevada voters will decide on Nov. 6 whether Hof or Democrat Lesia Romanov will pick up the state assembly seat for the tradi- tionally Republican-lean- ing district. They will also vote on shutting down brothels in Lyon County, where Hof owns four of them, the AP reported. If activists get enough signa- tures by Friday, several other counties could have the question on their ballots in November as well.
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