Lamar Odom Accuses Famed Brothel Owner of Trying to Murder Him

Posted on: January 2, 2023, 10:13h. 

Last updated on: January 3, 2023, 02:50h.

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In a new FOX-TV tabloid news special, former LA Lakers star Lamar Odom accuses late brothel owner Dennis Hof of trying to murder him in 2015 when he famously overdosed on cocaine at Hof’s Love Ranch.

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On a new tabloid TV special, Lamar Odom admits to using an almost fatal amount of cocaine on a regular basis – just not the particular cocaine that nearly killed him in 2015 at Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch brothel. (Image: Screenshot/FOX)

On TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs and Kardashians, which first aired Monday night, Odom tells TMZ founder Harvey Levin that he never intentionally took cocaine at the brothel, located 80 minutes northwest of Las Vegas. His version of the story is that he had one drink when he arrived, then woke up three days later in a hospital with tubes coming out of his body, unable to speak or walk.

It’s a bizarre allegation to make, especially when, during the same interview, Odom admitted, “Drugs, that was my girlfriend,” and “I had a wife … and cocaine.”

The two-time NBA champion wed reality TV star Khloe Kardashian in 2009 after a month of dating. They remained married until 2016.

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On Oct. 10, 2015 – while still married to Kardashian – Odom visited the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nev., located in one of the Silver State’s 10 counties with legal prostitution. Prostitution isn’t legal in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located.

Odom settled into a VIP suite and requested the company of prostitutes Cherry Ryder and Madison Montag. Three days of partying later, they visited his VIP suite and discovered Odom unconscious, with “blood coming out of his nose, white stuff coming out of his mouth,” as they told a 911 dispatcher.

A brothel manager called 911 a second time to provide more details, such as how much cocaine Odom had ingested, and the 10 tablets of “sexual performance enhancers” he’d been using over the course of three days.

According to Odom, he suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks while in a Vegas hospital, after which he was airlifted to a Los Angeles hospital once he stabilized.

“All my doctors that were all around me when the incident happened were like, I’m a walking miracle,” Odom said on the special. Now 43, Odom who claims he’s been sober for several years, said on the special, “When I came out of it, I was never supposed to walk again or talk.”

Levin asked Odom whether Kardashian knew about his drug use.

“For part of our marriage, I had to tell her,” Odom said. “You can’t hide that.”

Despite his admitted drug abuse, Odom told Levin he never took drugs at Hof’s brothel and claims that Hof, who at the time was the world’s most famous legal pimp, drugged him. He said he had no idea why Hof would have wanted him dead, nor does he know how the drugs wound up in his system.

Hof isn’t around to defend himself against these allegations. He actually did die at the Love Ranch – in his sleep of a heart attack on Oct. 16, 2018. It was after a party for his 72nd birthday attended by former Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, and legally embattled former porn star Ron Jeremy, who discovered his body.

Following Hof’s death, the brothel was listed for $1.2 million.