Original Crazy Girls Celebrate Arrival of Statue at Circa Las Vegas

Posted on: June 26, 2025, 10:20h. 

Last updated on: June 26, 2025, 10:40h.

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  • Eight original “Crazy Girls” cast members helped welcome their iconic statue to its new home at Circa Las Vegas on Wednesday
  • The bronze relief was escorted down Las Vegas Boulevard from Planet Hollywood, where it had been in storage since the topless revue closed there in 2021
  • It will be unveiled at the entrance to the downtown casino resort’s rooftop Legacy Club on Friday

When the “Crazy Girls” statue arrived at its new home, Circa Las Vegas, on Wednesday, eight original cast members from the long-running topless revue came with it. At least three were among those whose rear views were immortalized in the bronze relief.

Eight of the original cast members of Crazy Girls helped celebrate its move to Circa Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Image: @Instagram/@circalasvegas)

“It’s so awesome to be a part of history,” Angela Sampras-Stabile, the third Crazy Girl from the left in the statue, told the Las Vegas Sun after she emerged from a stretch limo pulling her bronze cast on a flatbed trailer.

A small crowd watches the six-foot-tall, 11-foot-wide, and 1,540-lb. statue arrive at Circa’s Garage Mahal. (Image: Instagram/@circalasvegas)

The statue was escorted by a police motorcade down Las Vegas Boulevard from Planet Hollywood, where it had been in storage since the show closed there in 2021.

Butt Seriously …

“This statue really symbolizes everything that I came to love Las Vegas (for),” Circa owner Derek Stevens told the Sun. “This symbolized the glitz and the glamor, and the sexiness, and the entertainment and the fun that Las Vegas could be.”

Stevens held an ownership stake in the Riviera, where “Crazy Girls” opened in 1987. The statue — cast by artist Michael Conine from body molds taken of the dancers — was installed in front of the Rat Pack-era casino resort to mark the show’s 10th anniversary.

The idea for the Crazy Girls statue came from this photo used as part of a 1994 ad campaign. “No Ifs, Ands or …,” read the ad copy written below the photo on billboards and atop taxis. (Image: Vintage Las Vegas/Greg Rider)

Quickly, it became a popular Las Vegas attraction to rub for good luck, rivaling 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.

That’s why its butts are so shiny.

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 only lasted six years, until Planet Hollywood owner Caesars Entertainment decided to close “Crazy Girls” and mothball the statue.

The statue’s final stop will be the lobby of Circa’s Legacy Club rooftop lounge, where a ribbon-cutting will be held at 5 pm Friday.