Dead Man’s Victory: How Dennis Hof Secured a Political Seat from Beyond the Grave
But while Hof’s official rule for the newly renamed World Famous Moonlite BunnyRanch was that the workers operated as independent contractors able to refuse any act or customer, later allegations against Hof suggested he didn’t apply this rule to himself.
How Dennis Hof Became “America’s Pimp”
MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock PhotoDennis Hof and porn actor Ron Jeremy at HuffPost Live in 2015.
Dennis Hof, much like his idol Donald Trump, eventually became a regular on Howard Stern’s radio program, known for his controversial opinions and unabashed, flagrant lifestyle.
He would appear on other television shows as well, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, The View, and Fox News. He eventually attracted the attention of producers at HBO, who were working on a series called Cathouse. The show documented the lives of workers at Hof’s Moonlite BunnyRanch and premiered in 2005.
Cathouse turned Hof into a full-fledged celebrity. The show ran from 2005 to 2014 and solidified Dennis Hof’s status as “America’s Pimp,” a term he embraced, claiming he wanted to change the definition of what people viewed a pimp to be. Pimps were frequently portrayed as being violent and exploitative, but Dennis Hof, as he presented himself, was not.
That said, sections of Hof’s own memoir — sections written by women who had worked for him and by a psychiatrist named Dr. Sheenah Hankin which he inexplicably chose to include — shatter this image.
Krissy Summers, a sex worker, wrote that Hof would sleep with a woman “one minute after her legal birthday, then put her right to work, as if this is something real men brag about.” Another sex worker who worked for Hof, Cami Parker, described him as a “soulless pimp.” Parker was 22 when she met Hof, and he already felt that she was too old for him.
Hof wrote their testimonies off as “craziness” in the next section of the book, but Hankin’s diagnosis of the man doesn’t paint him in any better of a light.
“Dennis uses the women he ‘loves’ for his own desires, loyal companionship and sex,” the psychiatrist wrote. “Like any pimp, he exploits them. This is sadistic behavior, and it is both unrecognized and denied.”
And these were just the accounts Hof included in his book.
But being a “pimp” didn’t seem to be enough for him. In 2018, after Dennis Hof saw Donald Trump’s run at the American presidency pay off, he felt inspired. Hof likened Trump to Christopher Columbus, saying that the president was a “pioneer” for people like Hof to get into politics
Political Campaign And Allegations Of Sexual Assault
IMDbDennis Hof in a promotional shoot during his political campaign.
“Dennis Hof is the Trump of Pahrump,” Hof stated in a 2018 interview with NPR. “He’s rich, he’s famous, he’s got nerves of steel. He likes hot girls.”
But Hof was similar to Trump in another way as well. Just as the president faced accusations of sexual assault, Hof did too.
Jennifer O’Kane, one of Hof’s former sex workers, described her experience to the New Yorker in 2018. During one New Year’s Eve party, O’Kane was instructed to go to her room, where she found Hof waiting. She said he then ordered her to get undressed, and forced her to give him oral sex — and when she began to cry, he took it further.
“I found out what anal sex was,” O’Kane recounted to the New Yorker. “That’s what he did to me. There was blood. He then penetrated the front — not clean. When he was done, he told me to clean up. And I was just crying. I cried and cried. It hurt. And he left.”
It wasn’t the only time Hof had violated O’Kane in such a way. Nor was she the only victim. Another woman, whose name was not shared, was being treated at a local hospital in September 2018, when Hof’s campaign was underway, and said that he had raped her too. At the time, The Nevada Independent reported that Hof was under investigation by the Nevada Department of Public Safety for sexual assault.
Hof denied the allegations and claimed they were “politically motivated.”
“I’m rich. I’m famous. That attracts girls,” Hof said. “I work with 500 sexually charged women that love sex. The last thing I would ever do is have to force anybody or coerce anybody to mess around with me.”
Hof ran as a Republican candidate, a voter demographic typically composed of conservatives who are more interested in traditional family values than sex work. But, like many “Never Trump” Republicans who still voted for the president, Hof’s personal character was secondary to his platform, which Hof described as “small government, low taxes.”
WENN Rights Ltd/Alamy Stock PhotoDennis Hof with Cami Parker, the person who described him as a “soulless pimp.”
“I hate this commerce tax,” he said. “I’m infuriated.” On social issues, Hof said, “Well you don’t bother me too much on that because I don’t care who has sex with who.”
Access to water also proved to be a huge issue for voters, and Hof positioned himself as a people’s champion, appearing at a “water-rights conference” held earlier that year alongside Ryan Bundy, whose family was well known for their anti-government occupations. The event was held at the Patch of Heaven evangelical camp, which was at the time in a legal battle with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for rights to water that had been diverted away from their property to the habitat of endangered pupfish.
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