Moonlite BunnyRanch

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The Moonlite BunnyRanch in 2006.

The Moonlite BunnyRanch (often misspelled Moonlight, though that is the correct spelling of the road on which it is located) is a legal, licensed brothel in Mound House, Nevada, United States, some 6 miles (10 km) east of Carson City. The ranch, a set of connected trailers, is owned and operated by Dennis Hof. The BunnyRanch Two, a branch of the company, is located about a mile south of the Moonlite BunnyRanch, very near two unrelated, competing brothels (the Kit Kat Guest Ranch and the Sagebrush Ranch). The BunnyRanch pays tribute to its profession in its address (69 Moonlight Road) and its local telephone number (ending in 3825, which spells out F-U-C-K on a telephone pad).

1 History
2 Workers
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The brothel now known as the Moonlite BunnyRanch first opened in 1955. There is a historical marker on the premises, found just inside of the property's main gate, as the ranch is located near a stop on the original Pony Express. It operated discreetly until 1970, when Nevada began regulation of houses of prostitution. Dennis Hof, a frequent customer, purchased the business in 1993 for $1 million and invested another $500,000 in upgrading the facilities and decor. With an eye toward legitimizing sex workers, he has declined to call his workers "prostitutes."

Dennis Hof subsequently purchased another nearby brothel, then known as Madame Kitty's Fantasy Ranch, located about one mile (1.6 km) to better capitalize on the "BunnyRanch brand name," as he put it.

Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler and Governor of Minnesota, wrote in his 1999 autobiography I Ain't Got Time to Bleed that he visited the Bunny Ranch in the 1970s, had sex there, and received $10 in return for his Navy SEAL belt.

On April 23, 2001, an article about Dennis Hof and the BunnyRanch appeared in The New Yorker.^[1]

The Moonlite BunnyRanch was featured on HBO's America Undercover show specials, Cathouse (2002) and Cathouse 2: Back in the Saddle (2003). This led to the series Cathouse: The Series, airing in two seasons in 2005 and 2007. The ranch was also featured as a supposedly "haunted house" in an episode of Proof Positive and is frequently mentioned on the Howard Stern Show, usually to announce that another porn star has started to work there.

In June 2003, Hof announced that the first 50 servicemen who showed up at his brothel after returning from the Iraq war would get a free session of sex; for another 50 days, all returning servicemen would receive a 50% discount. A similar offer of free sex was made to 200 soldiers around Thanksgiving 2005. This was an attempt to implicitly advertise the ranch, since official prostitution ads on TV or radio were then illegal in the state.

In July 2003, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, a regular customer of the BunnyRanch, was charged with battery after a prostitute at the ranch alleged that he grabbed her around the throat and threw her against a wall ^[2].

[edit] Workers

Porn star Sunset Thomas worked at the BunnyRanch from 2002 until some time in 2004 or 2005 when she broke up with then-boyfriend Dennis Hof. Porn star India has also cut down on making adult films to work at the Bunny Ranch, claiming that it was more profitable. Another well-known long-timer is Air Force Amy. Divine Brown, mainly known from her arrest while servicing film star Hugh Grant, has also worked at the BunnyRanch.