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.
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