GOP candidate for state legislature, Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof accused of rape and abuse of his employees – Three former sex workers step up
Former sex worker claims Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof choked and raped her, the third woman to come forward with allegations against the brothel owner who just won Republican primary for the Nevada legislature
Long term employee Theresa Lowe, claims she was being raped and choked by the establishment owner, Dennis Hof, all through her tenure at one of his brothels
Lowe, 55, worked at Hof’s Love Ranch North in Nevada, for six years until 2012
She decided to leave after an incident in which she alleges Hof choked her in the brothel’s kitchen while demanding ‘Where the f*** have you been?’
Jennifer O’Kane, 47, and Diana Grandmaison, 58, also claim Hof abused them
All three claim Hof views the women working in his brothels as ‘possessions’, would routinely force himself on his sex workers and had no qualms about assaulting them in public – once even telling O’Kane ‘that f***ing p***y belongs to me’ as he raped her
In 2015, his former girlfriend Diane Fowler petitioned for an order of protection against him in Monticello, Arkansas
She claimed he ‘verbally and mentally’ abused her during their relationship between 2001 and 2003
known as the known as the ‘PT Barnum of Booty,’ Hof, 71, once boasted of sleeping with more than 4,000 women and said he insists on ‘trying out’ new recruits to his brothel empire
Hof disdainfully dismisses the accusations, ‘I am busy doing TV shows [campaigning], and don’t have time to discuss these absurd allegations’
Theresa Lowe [photo], is one of three former sex workers to accuse GOP candidate for US congress, Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof of rape and abuse of his employees. Lowe claims Hof attacked her within days of her arrival at the Love Ranch North but says she felt unable to tell the police for fear of not being believed
A former sex worker claims she was choked and sexually assaulted by Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof – making her the third woman to come forward with allegations of abuse by the man known as the ‘PT Barnum of Booty.’
Theresa Lowe, 55, who worked under the name ‘August Knight’,said she endured months of hell at the hands of the 71-year-old, including allegedly being raped.
Lowe, who was employed at Love Ranch North in Mound House, Nevada, for six years until 2012, said she finally decided to leave after an incident in which she claims Hof choked her in the brothel’s kitchen while demanding ‘Where the f*** have you been?’
Her story parallels those of Jennifer O’Kane, 47, and Diana Grandmaison, 58, who both claim to have been abused by Hof during their time working in his legal sex establishments.
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Self-styled ‘Trump of Pahrump’, Nevada brothel king Dennis Hof, wins GOP primary over three-term Republican lawmaker James Oscarson
‘Superpimp’ Hof, owns seven brothels in Nevada, among them the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound House and Love Ranch South in Crystal, where Lamar Odom was found unconscious after a drug overdose in October 2015 . He also starred on the HBO adult reality series ‘Cathouse’.
On Tuesday, he defeated incumbent James Oscarson to take the Republican nomination and will now face with Democrat Lesia Romanov in November to represent Nevada’s Assembly District 36.
Theresa Lowe [photo], aka ‘August Knight’, said she endured months of hell at the hands of the Hof, including allegedly being raped
When asked about the claims made by Lowe and other women, Hof dismissed the accusations, stating that he was too busy campaigning to bother with ‘these absurd allegations.’
The self-styled ‘Trump of Pahrump’ previously released a statement via his website denying Jennifer O’Kane’s claims and accusing her of attempting to frustrate his bid for election.
In his memoir, The Art of the Pimp, Hof boasted of sleeping with more than 4,000 women and admitted that he insists on ‘trying out’ every girl who works for him.
His accusers – Lowe , O’Kane and Grandmaison, all claims it was not always consensual, with the pimp routinely forcing women into sex.
GOP politician, the self-styled ‘PT Barnum of Booty’ dennis Hof [right], with Cami Parker, has been accused of beating and raping a number of women who worked in his legal Nevada brothels
The women claim he insists on being known as ‘Daddy D’ and would often order the girls to have sex with his friends for a cut-price fee of $300.
All three claim he views the women working in his brothels as ‘possessions’ – once even telling O’Kane ‘that f***ing p***y belongs to me’ as he raped her.
Lowe, who worked for Hof between 2006 and 2012, eventually rose through the brothel ranks to become a ‘trainer’ – an experienced prostitute who teaches newcomers how to behave, work in the line-up and negotiate with men.
The 55-year-old, who now lives in Kansas, says Hof attacked her within days of her arrival at the Love Ranch North but says she felt unable to go to the police for fear of not being believed.
‘I had just flown in [to Carson City], I was going to see the doctor the next day,’ she said. ‘You get your results 24 hours later, then you see the sheriff and get your card.’
A car took Lowe through the mountains to the ranch, where she met Hof.
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Former Hof employed sex workers Diana Grandmaison [left], and Jennifer O’Kane [right], both have come forward alleging that the brothel owner routinely raped and abused them while they were working for him
Diana Grandmaison, 58, says she was sexually assaulted by Hof in the bar at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in June 2009, while Jennifer O’Kane, 47, says Hof began attacking her within days of her arrival at the Love Ranch South, where she was known as ‘Carmen Lee’, in December 2010.
According to the police report quoted O’kane complained that thereafter she was ‘raped and battered daily’ by the pimp.
Jennifer O’Kane, aka ‘Carmen Lee’, [photo], told a friend ‘I just don’t like this. I’m being forced to sleep with him. He wants me, he doesn’t want anybody else’
She told police ‘[The first time] I walked in the house. He said let’s go upstairs. And he raped me,’ Lowe claims.
‘It was violent, choking me, grabbing me by the hair. Suck my d*** you b***h. We had sex, no condom.’
According to Lowe, Hof went on to attack her on 10 further occasions and says she finally walked out after an incident in which he allegedly choked her in the kitchen of Love Ranch North.
Lowe said: ‘I remember we were in the kitchen and he grabbed me by the throat, and said, ‘Where the f*** have you been?’ I’d had enough.
‘I’d had enough of girls crying, coming into my room and saying this isn’t fair. I believe he rapes and intimidates and tells the new girls, welcome to my ranch but this is how it’s going to be.
‘This is what you will do. You will service my customers and you will service me as well. For free. With no condom.’
O’Kane, who now lives in Texas, claims that Hof began attacking her within days of her arrival at the Love Ranch South, where she was known as ‘Carmen Lee’, in December 2010.
She says she and another new recruit were taken to dinner by Hof during her first week in Crystal but claims on her return to the brothel, she was ordered to go to her room.
Waiting for her there was Hof who allegedly put his hands around her neck and ordered her to undress before violently raping her.
‘I froze,’ he said to his new employee.
‘He told me that I belonged to him, he said, “That f***ing pussy belongs to me.
O’Kane said that during her first week working at Hof’s Love Ranch in Crystal in 2011, she was told to go to Hof’s room, where he had her strip and told her she belonged to him before raping and abusing her
Dennis Hof owns seven legal brothels in Nevada, Diane Grandmaison says she hated the line-up [photo], where women are displayed so punters can make their selection
Hof owns seven legal brothels in Nevada, Among his brothels are the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound House and Love Ranch South – where Lamar Odom was found unconscious after a drug overdose in October 2015 – in Crystal
‘He said get undressed and I got undressed. It was so violent that I didn’t know what to do, what to say. During it, I said, “Please stop, I don’t want this, why are you doing this?”
‘He said “you’re mine” and he smacked me. He made comments, he said I was the oldest one he’d been with in a long time. ‘Then he anally raped me. He said his girlfriend doesn’t do it so I do it.’
O’Kane’s close friend Suzanne Palmiere, [left], of Redondo Beach, California, confirmed that Jennifer would often call her in tears after allegedly suffering an assault.
Between January 2011 and May 2011 when O’Kane left his brothel, Hof raped her repeatedly, at least once or twice a week, the sex worker claims.
Palmiere said: ‘Jennifer began working at the brothel on December 31 and almost immediately, she called me and said: I just don’t like this. I’m being forced to sleep with him. He wants me, he doesn’t want anybody else.
‘I said, well just say no. And she said, I can’t just say no. I just can’t – I can’t say no. Things escalated from there.
‘She called me maybe six times in the beginning to let me know this was going on, that she was being raped, that she was having sex against her will with her boss.’
O’Kane says she attempted to complain to the police in Pahrump, Nevada, in February 2011 but was allegedly not believed.
She filed a second police report in October 2016 but the District Attorney declined to prosecute, saying the statute of limitations had expired.
Fifty-eight-year-old Grandmaison, who now lives in Florida, says she was sexually assaulted by the Hof in the bar at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in June 2009.
Former porn star turned sex worker, Grandmaison recounts the day Hof allegedly assaulted her at the bar at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, ‘He grabbed me with his hand on my genitals, holding onto it and holding me to him, he wouldn’t stop. – ‘ I was to just stand there and let him finish doing what he was doing to me and it was in front of everybody who was in the brothel at the time’
Former porn star, Diane Grandmaison. aka ‘Desi Foxx’, was initially recruited into sex work in Fort Lauderdale and lived in Los Angeles for a year before becoming disillusioned with the adult acting industry.
On her 49th birthday, she joined Hof’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch on March 18 2009.
She says the burly brothel owner initially seemed charming but soon showed his darker side, insisting on overseeing everything from what she wore to what she ate.
Like Lowe and O’Kane, Grandmaison says the women were expected to work 12 hour shifts six days a week and follow the rules set down in the ‘Bunny Bible’ – the in-house guidebook given to workers.
Three-term Nevada state rep James Oscarson [photo] lost in the Republican primary to Dennis Hof on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker
But her worst moment came in June 2009 at the hands of Hof, when she claims he assaulted her at the bar, in punishment for refusing to have sex with a client off property.
‘We were back at the Bunny Ranch and we were kind of partying – everybody was drinking a little bit,’ she recalled. ‘It was kind of a slow night.’
‘Dennis was sitting at the bar and I went up to the end of the bar to get a drink and he called me round the corner to him.
‘I walked over to him and at that point, he reached up under my negligee skirt that I had and proceeded to touch me inappropriately under my dress.
‘I kind of just laughed at it, pushed him off and tried to pull away and he grabbed me with his hand on my genitals, holding onto it and holding me to him – he wouldn’t stop.
‘At that point, I was to just stand there and let him finish doing what he was doing to me and it was in front of everybody who was in the brothel at the time.’
Fowler [photo], claims Hof ‘verbally and mentally’ abused her during their relationship between 2001 and 2004
In 2015, his former girlfriend Diane Fowler – known by the stage name Sunset Thomas – petitioned for an order of protection against him in Monticello, Arkansas, and claimed he ‘verbally and mentally’ abused her during their relationship between 2001 and 2003.
The order of protection was granted, but allowed to lapse after six months.
She also claimed that after she left Nevada in 2013, he began a campaign of intimidation aimed at coercing her back into his brothel business and submitted a recording of one of his phone rants to court, in which he said ‘I will have to do what I have to do’ if she didn’t return.
Forty-six-year-old Fowler, 46, said h er former paramour’s behavior had left her fearful and said she just wanted to be left alone.
Another ex-girlfriend, Cami Parker, 29, described him as belittling and told how he would constantly nag her to ‘fix’ her looks, which ultimately left her with an eating disorder: ‘
He loves to hurt and confuse women,’ Parker, who now lives in Vancouver, Canada, said in an interview. – ‘He even bragged about sleeping with a girl one minute after her legal birthday and then putting her right to work, as if this is something real men brag about.
‘He would even tell me that at 23, I was too old for him, since girls over 21 are no good anymore, anyways’, Hof was 65 at the time.
When she finally did decide to leave Parker said, Hof invited brothel manager Madam Suzette to her room to rub [the hurt] in with a rendition of the song ‘Another One Bites The Dust’.
‘I feel like all these years later, I’m still trying to escape him. Dennis is a liar. Every single word that comes out of his mouth is bulls***’, Parker recalls.
‘All that fake bravado, all that nonsense about how Bunny Ranch is so wonderful and everybody’s so happy there. It’s a lie.’
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