Buying roughly 30 percent of the Mustang Ranch collection of memorabilia auctioned off earlier this year by IRS wasn’t enough for Bunnyranch owner Dennis Hof – he decided to buy the Ranch itself. Today he came close to that goal with the purchase the Mustang Ranch Annex, the building adjacent to the main Mustang Ranch.
Hof’s successful bid was only for the building itself; the Bureau of Land Management owns the land the building was on.
The modular building will be dismantled and moved next to the Bunny Ranch in Moundhouse, Nevada where Hof intends to convert the building into a museum for brothels.
“We’ll take these ideas and set up a museum. We've had all the interior items we need; now we have the buildings to put those in. Now America can get a historical perspective of a brothel; we’re excited to show it to them!” Hof told AVN.com.
Hof was actually at the Mustang Ranch the night before it was closed by the Internal Revenue Service for tax fraud in 1999. “What Prohibition was to Budweiser, the Mustang Ranch was to the Bunny Ranch,” Hof said, acknowledging the Mustang Ranch’s place in history as the first legal brothel in the United States.
The main building of the Ranch is still up for grabs, with over two days left for the bidding. Hof won’t disclose whether or not he wants to bid on the main building.
The Mustang Ranch Annex bid was placed under the user ID Sunsetthomas4 69 for $8,101.00. Proceeds from the auction will go into a federal fund to help cover law enforcement costs.
