Crazy Girls Statue Moving Its Butts to Circa Las Vegas
Posted on: June 15, 2025, 12:22h.
Last updated on: June 15, 2025, 12:22h.
- The iconic Crazy Girls statue is moving from Planet Hollywood, where it’s sat in storage since 2021, to Circa Las Vegas
- It will be displayed at the entrance to the downtown casino resort’s rooftop Legacy Club
The Crazy Girls statue, featuring seven of the most-rubbed objects in Las Vegas history, will soon find its third home. The bronze statue will be unveiled Friday, June 27 at the Circa casino resort downtown, where it will adorn the entrance to its recently renovated rooftop Legacy Club.
The Crazy Girls statue was first unveiled in 1997 in front of the Riviera, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the topless revue of the same name opened there by producer Norbert Aleman.
The idea for the statue came from a photo taken for 1994 ad campaign for the show. During the shoot, with photographer Greg Rider, dancers Sampras-Stabile and Shellee Renee suggested that they turn their backsides to face the camera.
“No Ifs, Ands or …,” read the ad copy written below the photo on billboards and atop taxis.
Kicking Butt
The statue quickly rose to the top of the most rubbed-for-luck icons of the Las Vegas Strip, surpassing even the golden breasts dangling from the figurehead of Cleopatra’s Barge and the left hand of the statue of Augustus Caesar at the valet entrance at Caesars Palace.
It was also reportedly the most photographed statue in Las Vegas.
When the Riv closed forever in 2015, after 60 years, Planet Hollywood saved both the show, and the statue, from the oblivion awaiting the Rat Pack-era property.
But the reprieve was only temporary. In 2021, Planet Hollywood owner Caesars Entertainment decided to shutter “Crazy Girls” for good and place the statue in storage.
In 2023, a Caesars spokesperson told Casino.org that it had no plans to display the statue again.
Sisterhood of the Traveling Butts
On June 25, however, the six feet tall, 11 feet wide and 1,540 lb. statue will make its way from Planet Hollywood by motorcade to Circa.
“Anyone visiting can rub a butt for good luck once again!” Circa wrote on its Instagram page.
Circa has a thing for saving classic Sin City icons and displaying them once again to the public (as long as they enter tie Circa to do so). Vegas Vickie, the female counterpart to Vegas Vic, resides inside its lobby.
Crazy Rumor
Like most icons of Las Vegas, the Crazy Girls statue comes with its own entirely bogus myth. Over the years, many websites have reported that one of the girls portrayed in the statue is transgender.
Dancer Jahna Steele, who was born a biological male, became the breakout star of “Crazy Girls” in its early years. In a 1991 newspaper contest, she was voted Las Vegas’ “Sexiest Showgirl on the Strip” by readers who probably had no idea she was born John Matheny.
But Steele was fired from the troupe a year later — when producer Aleman caved to the homophobic fallout of a national scandal about her gender stoked by the tabloid TV show “A Current Affair.”
But that happened five years before New Mexico artist Michael Conine cast the Crazy Girls statue using body molds taken of the real cast.
“They put baby oil all over us, then cotton, then whatever the mold was made out of,” Angela Sampras-Stabile told Casino.org. “We had to stand completely still until it dried. One of the girls actually fainted and broke the mold, and we had to start all over.”
Last Comment ( 1 )
As an entertainer and showgirl I would have loved to have been included in this statue!!! I think this was a beautiful piece of art of the woman's body from a dancer and ice skater's point of view. Live on at the Circa.......