In a new FOX-TV tabloid news special, former L.A. Lakers lead Lamar Odom accuses late brothel owner Dennis Hof of trying to murder him that clip in 2015 that he famously overdosed on cocaine at Hof’s Love Ranch.
On “TMZ Presents: Lamar Odom: Sex, Drugs and Kardashians,” which foremost aired Mon night, Odom tells TMZ founder William Harvey Levin that he never by choice took cocain at the brothel, situated 80 proceedings north-west of Las Vegas. His variant of the story is that he had ane tope when he arrived, so woke upwardly tercet days later in a infirmary with tubes coming come 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 title-holder wedded realness TV principal Khloe Kardashian inwards 2009, after a month of dating. They remained married until 2016.
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On Oct 10, 2015 – piece noneffervescent married to Kardashian – Odom visited the Love Ranch inwards Crystal, Nev., ace of the Silver State’s 10 counties with effectual prostitution. (It’s not sound inward Kenneth Clark County, where Las Vegas is located.) Odom settled into a VIP suite and requested the fellowship of prostitutes Cherry Ryder and James Madison Montag. Three years of partying later, they visited his VIP rooms and discovered Odom unconscious, with “blood coming come out of his nose, snowy stuff coming come out of his mouth,” as they told a 911 dispatcher.
A brothel manager called 911 a secondment time, to cater more details, such as how a great deal cocain Odom had ingested, and the 10 tablets of “sexual performance enhancers” he’d been using over the row of triad days.
According to Odom, he suffered 12 strokes and sextuplet heart attacks while in a Vegas hospital, after which he was airlifted to a Los Angeles infirmary once he stabilized.
“All my doctors that were all around me when the incident happened were like I’m a walking miracle,” Odom, who is now 43 and claims to have been sober for several years, said on the special. “When I came out of it, i was ne'er supposed to walkway again or talk.”
Levin asked Odom whether Kardashian knew most his do drugs use.
“For piece of our marriage, I had to tell her,” Odom said. “You can’t conceal that.”
Despite all the drug abuse Odom admitted to Levin, he adamantly claims ne'er to experience taken drugs at Hof’s brothel – that Hof, who at the clip was the world’s to the highest degree famous effectual pimp, drugged him. He said he had no more idea why Hof would have got wanted him dead, nor does he cognise how the drugs combat injury upwardly inward his system.
Hof is non around to represent himself against these allegations. He actually did die at the Love Ranch – in his catch some Z's of a spirit onslaught on October 16, 2018. It was after a party for his 72nd birthday tended to(p) by former Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, and legally battlemented former porn star Bokkos Jeremy, who discovered his body.
Following Hof’s death, the brothel was listed for $1.2 million.