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[News] Former NBA all-star, Lamar Odom,

remains unconscious at a hospital in Las Vegas.

Lamar, he's just signed his divorce papers.

And he went to a place that he always wanted to go to...

Dennis Hof's Love Ranch.

I feel like he was trying to get over his marriage

with Khloe, and he just wanted some cute girls...

to just throw him off a little bit.

Dennis, he gets to boast and say he hired

the first transgender prostitute.

Dennis Hof told her to get whatever Lamar needed,

and to try to keep him there longer.

They wanted him to spend more money.

In those time periods, he reverted back

to his vices...

and the two addictions that he's always had

from his youth, was he was addicted to sex,

and he was addicted to drugs.

Now it got out of control...

when he wouldn't wake up.

Lamar was foaming at the mouth.

And he was unconscious.

Now he's almost dead and...

Dennis was taking every interview he could.

[Dennis] We don't care if you're a celebrity.

We don't care if you're a billionaire.

You can't do drugs in my house.

Lamar's overdose was the most Googled search of 2015.

Lamar Odom got screwed in a brothel,

but not in the way you would think he got screwed.

Nobody knew that real story but me and Ryder.

This is the first time I've ever told the real story,

the true story.

♪ [moody pop]

♪

♪ You put me under the covers. ♪

♪ For all the world to see. ♪

♪ But I never recovered. ♪

♪ You never cared about me. ♪

♪ So now you're being uncovered. ♪

♪ I kept all the receipts. ♪

♪ You and all of the others. ♪

♪ Under a fantasy. ♪

♪

[Crew] Monica Monroe, take one. Marker.

[Monica] I'm gonna tell you the real story

about the Lamar Odom party.

Exactly what happened.

When Lamar Odom came to the Love Ranch South,

it was a big deal.

That was probably the biggest celebrity they'd

ever had walk in there and put money down.

[Monica] Why not tell the story, and why keep it a secret?

People want to know.

♪

Lamar Odom was not only famous in basketball,

but he was connected to the Kardashians.

He was married at that time to Khloe.

October 2015.

Lamar is in the worst state of his life.

The worst mindset of his life.

He has just signed his divorce papers.

You think of, where would Lamar Odom go?

The first place he went to was this brothel.

[Monica] We're smoking weed and drinking, taking shots.

♪

But after he did the cocaine,

it turned into a bad situation.

It got pretty scary.

I've never talked to anybody about it.

Never.

♪

♪

I worked for Dennis Hof at his Love Ranch

as an escort girl.

♪

I grew up in Sacramento.

Um, it was a little rough.

All my friends that I knew, they had money, and...

they had it easy.

Their parents were there, worked good jobs,

and they had everything they wanted and needed,

and the way I grew up...

I went without a lot of the time.

One of my friends told me about

the HBO Cathouse show.

I remember seeing where a girl...

had a guy in a bathtub.

It looks easy. She- he's just sucking on her toes.

♪

They're not being sexual at all.

They're both naked, of course.

She just kept swiping his card for more money and

more money, and I was like, if it's that easy, then...

I really want to try it.

♪

I got hired

24 hours after applying.

This woman named TJ,

she was the Madam from the Love Ranch.

She responded to me, and she said...

"You're hired." She's like, "When can you start?"

♪

I have been afraid from time to time for my life...

because I've told the truth.

Um, I believe there's still a lot of truth and that it

needs to be told, and...

that's why I'm taking part in this.

Love Ranch South is located in Crystal, Nevada.

It is in the middle of nowhere.

There are no services, there's no...

buses, there's no taxis, there's no grocery stores.

You're pretty much stuck there.

♪

[Monica] I would go back and forth a couple times.

And, one of the girls messaged me

when I was at home, and told me,

"Lamar Odom is gonna be coming here."

And, it didn't seem real.

I was like, "Yeah, right..."

♪

[Crew] Take one. Marker.

I worked at Dennis Hof's Love Ranch brothel

in October of 2015.

Dennis Hof approached my agent

asking just for me.

He specifically sought me out.

And they sold me this idea.

"You're gonna be the first transgender prostitute to be

licensed in Nevada and the United States."

So, that's how they kind of sold me on

the idea of going there.

[Madison] Come see me at the Love Ranch Vegas!

While I was working at the brothel,

we got a call from a customer,

and they had left $100 deposit down.

I was with Ryder at the time.

We both looked at the caller ID just to see who called,

and she said that Lamar Odom was the one that called

and that he was the one that left the deposit.

And I was like, "Who's Lamar Odom?"

♪

And then she told me, "He was on the show,

he's Khloe Kardashian's husband."

♪

I first met Lamar when he joined The Clippers,

so this was 1999.

I always loved talking to Lamar.

He told me about his childhood in New York.

It was so sad, it didn't really seem

that it was true, really.

He never really had a father figure

in the true sense of the word.

His dad was addicted to heroin.

His mother passed away when he was 12.

With everything he went through in life-

basketball, the gym, the court-

that was his safe place.

When Lamar got traded to Los Angeles,

he joined the Lakers,

and he became a teammate of Kobe Bryant,

and he will tell you that that changed his life.

Lamar and the Lakers,

they went to three straight finals,

they won back-to-back championships.

He goes on to win Sixth Man of the Year,

gets married to Khloe Kardashian,

gets his own reality show.

His fame grew from, you know,

the fame one has of being a basketball player

to the transcendent fame of being a part of

the Kardashian family.

[Security] Back, back, back, back, back!

[Arash] That is a different level of fame.

You cannot leave your house.

You cannot do anything.

Everyone knows who you are.

♪

And then there was a video released on TMZ with, uh,

one of Lamar's childhood friends.

They're both without their shirts on, uh,

and Lamar's clearly drugged out,

talking about cheating on Khloe,

the one stable thing in his life.

[Arash] He always talked about that, like...

he's given her so many reasons to leave,

and then finally it...

was too much, where she wanted a divorce.

Lamar wants to forget about everything that's

happening in his life, and he went to Las Vegas.

And there was one place that he always wanted to go to,

Dennis Hof's Love Ranch.

I think the appeal of this brothel,

from what Lamar had heard, was that they were used to

high-profile clientele

that would keep it under wraps.

♪

[Madison] I decided to go post on my Twitter,

and say, you know, at The Love Ranch,

you know, you can trust Dennis Hof and I

for discretion, you know, and all that,

hoping he would see it.

And then, I ended up taking matters into my own hands

and I just screenshotted my tweet,

and then I DM'ed Lamar on Instagram.

I sent my phone number to him as well.

He called me in the middle of the night.

He had asked me, saying, you know,

"Hey, I seen you online. You want to meet up?"

And stuff like that.

I had a feeling he knew me from my adult videos.

I had been an adult film star at that time for six years.

I'm all online.

You'll see my videos, pictures of me, and...

in these pictures and videos, you know I'm trans so,

there's no confusion.

Lamar ended up messaging me back,

and he had asked me, "Are you in?

I think the car should come get me."

I had sent him a message...

um, saying, "The car is ready when you are, Daddy."

♪

He says, "I'm ready for that car,"

and then he gave me his address.

♪

[Arash] Lamar had just signed his divorce papers.

I think Lamar wanted to disappear.

I think Lamar wanted to escape from reality.

I think he just wanted to be somewhere

where there was no expectations.

It led to probably the worst decision of his life.

♪

The Madam, TJ,

said that he was really coming.

And she told us all, "Get to your best, top look.

Get beautiful, get ready.

I'm going to get him myself."

[TJ] I left. It was going to be...

two-and-a-half-hour ride, round trip.

I picked him up in Henderson.

He was really tall, I remember.

I had never met a star or anybody like that.

Having a conversation with Lamar was like talking to

a neighbor you've known all your life.

♪

[Madison] Lamar and TJ are on their way to the brothel,

and we get a call for all the girls to be lineup ready.

And I was really confused and, like,

hurt by that 'cause I was, like,

I thought he was coming here just to see me.

[Monica] It was unbelievable.

All the girls in the house, they're going crazy.

They're like, "He's really coming!"

They're all trying to Google how much money he has.

[TJ] Dennis wanted the business

from Hollywood to come.

We were 4 hours away from LA.

Lamar was the first superstar

or real VIP to visit the house.

He came in, and he sat down.

Gave him some time to get settled and,

I offered him a drink from the bar.

And then I asked him...

just to let me know when he was ready for the lineup.

♪

[Monica] I picked out this outfit.

I felt like it was my...

best piece of lingerie that I had.

I was excited.

He just seemed really calm, like he was- the way he was

sitting on the couch, he was all laid back.

I say 8, maybe 9 girls.

And they start at the beginning,

and they go down. I was just like,

"Hi, my name's Monica Monroe."

Just by, like, looking at him and

him watching all the girls, and he was looking at me.

So, I was just like, "He's gonna pick me.

This is crazy."

[TJ] He chose Ryder Cherry,

and he also asked to speak with Monica Monroe.

[Monica] My heart just dropped.

And I- me and Ryder looked at each other.

I was like, "This can't be real."

♪

[Madison] I was really stunned that

Ryder and Monica got picked over me.

I feel like he did want to pick me.

Since I'm trans, I don't think...

he wanted that to even get out in front of other women.

I think he wanted it just to be between us.

I think he was scared.

♪

♪

Now, Dennis would tell the women...

if a client comes in and he drops $30,000 initially,

don't pat yourself on the back.

He's got a million dollars, and your job is to get it.

♪

[Monica] When we negotiated with him,

we told him, like, "Since you want both of us,

we'll give you half off on one of us.

So, it'll be 50 for one and 25 for the other."

And the whole time he was thinking...

7,500.

But we were like, "No, it's 50,000 a girl."

So, I was- we were like, if you want two of us,

you'll get one for 25.

And he kind of just, like, said, "Phew, man.

That's a lot of money." And he was like...

we sat there, and we were like,

"We can do all this stuff.

Like, you have a couple days to spend here,

you can stay however long you want."

Like, we made him really comfortable.

And he was like, "Let's do this."

♪

♪

[TJ] I let Dennis know that Lamar

had booked a $75,000 party.

He was ecstatic.

[Monica] You know, I kind of just sat there

next to him on the side of the couch,

and she sat on the other side of him.

And like, I was kind of just like rubbing his arm,

and like just chilling, like, leaning on him,

and just trying to get comfy, and...

We were like, "Hey, you know,

this is gonna be fun."

[Madison] After Lamar chose Ryder and Monica,

they were walking around the house

thinking they were hot [beep] and...

they just were really, like, proud of themselves that,

you know, they brought in this big client,

at least they think they brought in.

♪

[Monica] I got him some drinks from the bar,

and we sat there and drank.

It was kind of just, like, cool, like,

we're hanging out.

[TJ] Ryder Cherry told me Dennis Hof

told her to get whatever Lamar needed.

♪

He knew, with some clients,

whatever it took wasn't going to be sex.

[DeAnne] Dennis told the world that

the women at the brothels were clean-cut,

and they didn't do drugs,

and that the usage was no more than it would be

at any other job.

[Dennis] We don't care if you're a celebrity,

we don't care if you're a billionaire.

You can't do drugs in my house.

[DeAnne] That is as far from the truth...

as you could possibly get.

[Madison] Dennis saying that he had

a strict no drugs policy,

I felt like that was just for show,

'cause all the girls there I had met had a secret

drug problem, including myself at the time.

[Monica] They didn't check bags.

They didn't have nobody searched...

for safety or anything.

So, if somebody wanted to get high,

who's stopping them?

[DeAnne] We found drugs in women's rooms.

There was syringes with needles.

A tourniquet. I took a picture of this.

It shows the evidence of drugs in a brothel.

[TJ] Dennis was aware of the drug issue.

I had brought it to his attention several times.

They knew...

that these girls did not do this job sober.

♪

[DeAnne] And everyone knew that Lamar Odom's

weakness was that he was a drug addict.

[Monica] We laid there.

I remember being in the middle and Ryder was

on the side of me, and then he was next to me.

Like, we just went to bed.

We slept in the bed that night with him.

Nothing happened.

[TJ] The next day...

I did go into work just to check on things.

I spoke with Lamar a little bit.

He...

was not drunk. He was not on drugs.

[Monica] He would want a little bit of time to his sself.

And we're in a party, technically.

We are booked in a party.

But we're out just doing our own thing, like,

we're not even doing anything with this guy,

and we're getting paid all this money.

♪

[TJ] He had actually bought KFC

for the whole house that day. Um...

But they, they insisted there was never any sex or,

or anything like that.

He just was here to, to...

chill and relax and...

nobody could call him there.

♪

[Monica] He shared with me, like, past experiences.

Like, life experiences.

Growing up in, like, the ghetto, and like...

with not having money.

♪

I didn't have anybody there for me

to guide me the right way.

He kind of related to that.

We connected a little bit.

And, one of his friends had passed away, and...

the same was for me, one of my best friends died.

And, we related on that.

♪

So, like, the next day,

we were just kicking it and hanging out.

And then...

all of a sudden, Ryder,

she was in the bathroom with him,

and I come in there, like, "What's going on?"

And I seen like six little lines laid out.

And to me, I'm like, "What the hell?

Where'd you guys get this stuff from?"

And Ryder's like,

[hushed] "He asked me about it earlier."

She's like, "Sh," you know, she's like,

"Don't say anything." And I was like,

"Oh, so it's a real party in here?

We're getting [beep] up."

And I was like, "Well, let me get one."

I did one line of coke.

I just did it just to do it

because this is [beep] Lamar Odom.

I'm getting paid all this money, and I'm like,

"We're [beep] partying, let's [beep] party and [beep]!"

And he didn't even want to share.

He did all of- I turned around

and they were all gone.

♪

♪

[Monica] I was like, okay, well he's...

all the, the rumors from him doing drugs in the past,

I'm like, this is true.

I'm like, he's a drug addict.

He's a grown man. If that's what he wants to do,

then that's what he wants to do, you know?

[Arash] He reverted back to his vices.

And the two addictions that he's always had

from his youth...

was he was addicted to sex,

and he was addicted to drugs.

[Monica] After he did the cocaine

and he finished all the cocaine...

we ended up leaving.

He wanted some time to his self,

and then she ended up telling me, like,

"He wants me to get more." And then I was like,

"Well, get him more. Like, what the hell.

Like, that's on you, you know, like,

what are you gonna do?" And she's like,

"I'm trying to call my friends

and see if I can get some more,"

but she's like, "Nobody's responding, dude."

And she couldn't get any more.

And when we came back, he was really hot.

Like, overheated, dripping sweat.

Like dripping sweat.

And he didn't- he wasn't saying what happened,

and I said, "Just get in the shower."

And um, I remember him getting in there...

and he was holding onto the walls butt naked.

And he was like, "Give me, like, another hour!"

Like he was going through something in there

that he didn't want us to see.

So, we leave out of the room.

When we go back, he's fine.

And he's just chilling on the bed laying there.

And, um...

He's like, just joking around.

"You guys got the perfect asses.

Come over here," and like, grabbing on our butts,

and like, kind of rolling around in the bed,

'cause he was huge.

I massaged his whole body,

and it was like I was massaging a giant.

He was like, "Go get some snacks for us, man.

We need some food and [beep]."

And we ended up going to Walmart.

It was late,

and he was sleeping when we came back.

And we were like, "He's asleep,

we're going to our room and going to sleep then.

We're not gonna sleep in here."

So, she went to her room, and I went to my room.

That next day was Doctor Day.

♪

[DeAnne] Every week the, the woman,

whether she sees clients or not,

in order to be legal, she has to have a

doctor's appointment each week.

You're tested so everyone knows you're safe.

♪

[Monica] So, when we woke up,

we went straight to get in the car to go

to the doctor's. We didn't go see to his room.

We just went to the doctor's, which was like...

probably like 40 or 50 miles away.

But we go back there, and he's still laying there.

Still sleeping, in the same position

from the night before...

from where he fell asleep.

So, I'm like, "Dang, he's knocked out."

And she's like, "Yeah, he's knocked out.

You wake him up!"

And I was like, you know what,

fine, I'll wake him up.

And like, I was like, "Lamar!"

And I tried to shake him, and he didn't do anything.

And I looked at her, and I was like, "Lamar!"

And he didn't do anything.

So, like, I stepped back, and I looked at her,

and she just looked so scared.

And I was like, what?

In my head, I'm like, what's going on?

Trying to process what's going on.

That's when he had all that white stuff just dripping out.

So, I'm like, "We need to go to TJ."

Around, like, three o'clock-ish,

I had woken up, and I had heard

all this racket going on in the brothel.

Like, it was just hysteria everywhere.

And I ended up walking into the VIP lounge

where he was staying, and seeing foam, like,

leaking out of his mouth.

He looked dead.

It was very traumatizing...

to see him in that state.

So, we get this call that comes over the scanner

that says, ah...

they need a bigger ambulance.

The man's too tall.

We have a lot of sources, you know,

we start calling around, who's at the brothel?

Who's there? We find out it's Lamar Odom.

And it's like, holy schneikers,

you know, holy crap. And then we find out,

you know, this is like a serious incident.

And we find out that he's went to Desert View Hospital.

We got the shot of him coming out of the ambulance.

You know, and, you know, big, tall guy,

feet hanging beyond the, uh, the boards.

♪

[Madison] All of a sudden,

reporters start showing up...

so we had to get any clients in the house out, and...

the brothel went on lockdown mode.

[Camera shutters snapping]

[Arash] When I heard what happened to Lamar,

I immediately thought that...

this was it.

He had died, I mean, it, it-

the way the story was framed was

the kind of story that you read about, you know,

the day before you get the confirmation

that he had passed away.

♪

Dennis was like this...

drug addict when it came to media.

And so, as soon as Lamar was taken away,

Dennis immediately called TMZ and broke the story.

♪

[Reporter] So, Lamar Odom still in

critical condition this morning in a coma.

Getting breathing support, in bad shape,

after being discovered at a brothel in Pahrump, Nevada.

[DeAnne] Dennis, in, in the effort of trying to

keep this story going, made up a lie.

He told the media there was a transgendered person

at the Love Ranch South,

and Dennis said that Lamar had partied

with this person, in an effort, again,

to keep the media talking about it.

[Madison] I got a text from my mom.

She sent me a Yahoo article that said

that Dennis had said that me and Ryder had found-

discovered Lamar overdosed.

♪

And that is the furthest thing from the truth

on my end.

I feel like my name was deliberately put in the news

by Dennis to create a controversy.

And I felt at the time that I would be blamed for it

by the media because...

they made it out to be like I was basically

this evil transexual hooker that...

basically played a part in Lamar's overdose.

[DeAnne] Our media had always been

we tailcoated on other stories that had

nothing to do with us, and we found a way

to interject ourselves in the story.

This was the first time that we were the story.

♪

t.

Former NBA star, Lamar Odom...

found unconscious at a Nevada brothel.

I mean, the world was there.

TMZ, CNN, it just blew up.

And for us, it was very stressful because

we don't really deal with that much

in our small community.

The Sheriff basically says that she's gonna do

a press conference, and she wants to show

that we're on this thing,

and that she wanted command staff,

which I was at the time, up there,

to show a presence.

And we're gonna convey that we're doing our job,

and we're not gonna allow this to happen

in Nye County.

[Reporter] Is there a chance that somebody at the brothel

will be held liable for what happened to Lamar Odom?

[Sheriff] That's possible at the end of our investigation

if we find that, ah...

that someone at the brothel is responsible, ah,

then yes, of course, they would be.

[Reporter] If someone at the brothel held back

that they knew he was doing drugs,

would they face charges for obstructing justice

or something like that?

[Sheriff] They could be,

if we found out that that were true.

[Reporter] Is it possible they could lose

their license, the brothel?

[Sheriff] Yes, it's possible,

if they're found of any wrongdoing.

Lamar is being driven from

Desert View Hospital in Pahrump...

to Las Vegas.

Ideally, for an emergency situation,

you would transport a patient via helicopter,

but because of Lamar's size,

they have to drive him there.

There's a lot of question marks of if Lamar

is gonna make it through that drive.

So, when Lamar Odom gets to Sunrise Hospital,

he is intubated.

Ah, feeding tubes, breathing tubes...

Ah, just a really tragic scene

from someone who was...

really healthy and vibrant not too long ago.

Now really looking like he's not gonna make it.

♪

I wake up to a text message from Dennis,

and he says, "Good morning!

It's gonna be a great day!"

[Host] I'm here with Dennis Hof.

How are you doing today, Dennis?

[Dennis] I'm doing great. I'm a little tired.

Been caught up in a media firestorm, and uh...

But I'm doing good.

[DeAnne] We were exploiting...

this man, struggling to live,

and Dennis was laughing and happy, and he was...

he was excited.

Like, I had never seen anything like this.

So inappropriate.

♪

[Arash] The circus at that point really

descended upon Pahrump and Las Vegas.

This was one of the biggest stories at that time.

Everybody in the Kardashian- in his clan, crew,

people that are around him,

all them start showing up.

[News] Tonight, Lamar is surrounded by

people who care about him.

Khloe rushing to his side, along with her mother,

and sister, Kim Kardashian.

And former Lakers teammate, Kobe Bryant,

and Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Shaquille O'Neal sending a tweet with the hashtag,

#MyHeartHurts.

And Magic Johnson tweeting:

♪

[DeAnne] Dennis used that situation

to promote media and to attack Khloe.

[Dennis] Speaking of the Kardashians,

I got a call from their publicist today,

and saying, "Are you gonna do any media?"

And I said, "Yes, I'm gonna go on the Nancy Grace Show,"

and they said, "Please don't do that.

We'd rather have Khloe say what needs to be said."

I told her to go to hell.

♪

[Nancy] Okay.

[DeAnne] He was baiting her with everything he could,

saying if she had done a better job sleeping with him,

her husband wouldn't have been there.

I think Dennis was looking for Khloe to fight back

and so there would be a big media war.

♪

[Arash] During this time period, you know,

we're talking four days, it doesn't look like

Lamar is going to make it.

[Reporter] Lamar has a 50/50 chance of survival.

There are four organs failing right now,

including his kidneys.

[Arash] I...

had to write an obituary that I prayed would never run,

but I was at that point in time certain that it would.

[Monica] People were calling me, saying,

"You're on TV." Reporters were trying to call me.

I'm like, "How did you get my number?"

It's not everybody's business to know

what you do for a living.

I don't want to be in the media.

[TJ] Lamar was still in a coma.

I do not believe he was awake at that time.

Dennis said I had to get on camera.

[News] TJ Moore, a manager at the Love Ranch

says that she spent hours talking to Odom

during his time there.

[TJ] He was coming to relax and...

just rest, and get away from the spotlight for a while.

My thoughts are with him.

My thoughts are with his family.

[Arash] He had 12 strokes.

6 heart attacks, collapsed lung.

His body was failing him.

His body was effectively saying,

"I'm done, I have nothing more to give."

[monitor beeping rapidly]

[flat lining]

♪

♪

A lot of other jobs do drug tests.

Random drug tests.

Dennis never did random drug tests because

almost everybody would fail, including staff.

♪

So, for Dennis to say that there was no drug use...

Ridiculous.

Most of the women, they'd say things like,

"I have to get a little high in order to get in the mood

to do this job." It could be drugs, it could be...

alcohol, but they had to have something...

to cope.

[Monica] Ryder, I think she got into drugs

really bad, like, prior to the Ranch.

And then got help and got

on a prescription for methadone.

Her prescription of methadone was a red juice-like

substance in a bottle, like a pill bottle.

And she had, like, 4 or 5 bottles.

I don't think she offered it to Lamar,

because it wasn't something she would talk about, or...

it wasn't like how I would smoke my weed,

she wouldn't just be taking her methadone like that.

Like, I don't know what happened.

♪

I really wasn't too scared for myself

because I didn't...

I didn't supply any drugs.

But, she was freaked out.

She was freaking out.

♪

♪

There was a huge exodus of staff after that because

nobody wanted to be associated.

It was, it was such a pall over the entire place.

♪

[Madison] I was just trying to get out of there and...

my friend Jocelyn and I created a plan,

in the middle of the night,

and I just ran with my luggage.

I cried the whole

45 minutes back to Vegas.

♪

[Monica] It was really sad, and it was scary.

And, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

And, in the middle of the night,

I went out there with my hoodie on,

packed my car full of my stuff and I left.

♪

[Monica] And Ryder, she disappeared.

♪

So, the Nye County Sheriff's Office actions

from looking at the report shows that they conducted

a thorough investigation, in my opinion.

Um, they checked the room,

they took a lot of photographs.

At first, they started investigating it

as a medical emergency.

And then after interviews,

they started trying to eliminate,

was it a medical emergency or was it

a drug overdose?

Um, that's why detectives did a blood draw.

It was like a day or two after the incident.

I started my emergency services career in 1992.

I joined the fire department as a volunteer.

And then in 2001, I became an EMT.

And I left there and went through the academy

and hit the street as a patrol officer in 2004.

So, my knowledge as an EMT,

I've seen a lot of the drug overdoses in my career.

People very rarely recover,

and it does so much damage to people...

that, you know,

these situations are so hard to deal with,

with family, and it's just bad to

bring that into a business.

♪

From looking at the report,

it shows that the blood drawn from the hospital

and taken by officers to the lab,

it was determined that there was very little amounts of

a cocaine metabolite.

Other than that, there was nothing in the system.

But small amount stuff is being pushed out

through the urine.

So, it's continuing to come out.

That's why, in my opinion,

that's why some of the results were low.

♪

[Reporter] The former basketball star,

who wound up unconscious in a brothel,

is reportedly awake and speaking.

Lamar Odom, this would be an enormous change

if true, listen now.

Moments ago, we heard from a publicist

from Lamar Odom's family...

that Lamar Odom gave a thumbs up

and actually said good morning today.

When I heard that Lamar was showing

some signs of life, it was very exciting.

But I quickly heard from physicians that...

we don't know what this means.

I mean, he could still die.

If he does...

survive, we don't know what Lamar is gonna look like,

what he's gonna sound like, if he can walk.

He's probably not gonna walk.

Like, we didn't know what kind of Lamar would...

leave the hospital.

I was so happy when I found out

Lamar was gonna make it,

and even more thrilled when I found out

how he was doing.

And I was really, truly speechless and emotional

when I got to talk to him for the first time.

♪

Is Lamar Odom's survival a miracle?

And from everything I reviewed...

it is a miracle.

The way it works in Nevada,

especially in Nye County, is...

they do an investigation, and if they determine

somebody needs to be charged,

the officers recommend charges to

the District Attorney's Office.

Then the District Attorney's Office evaluates it

and determines if charges should be brought.

So, what occurred in Lamar Odom's case

was that the Nye County Sherrif's Office

recommended charges of, uh,

under the influence of a controlled substance,

which by the blood results, was cocaine.

For a case charge, where did he obtain that,

is the biggest question.

Was he given drugs by other people?

That question by the report still appears unknown.

They talked to some people.

Ah, the officers did.

And they interviewed several of the brothel employees.

It appears that they never really determined that.

♪

[TJ] I stayed in contact...

with Ryder...

for several years, and eventually, um,

she told me...

they had used needles.

And, at the time...

the police were there, the needles were in

the bottom of the chicken bucket in the fridge.

♪

♪

[Eric] The District Attorney came out with a statement

saying that they were unable to determine if Lamar Odom

was under the influence of drugs in Nye County.

I don't know why they denied the case.

I think pretty lucky for both Lamar Odom and Dennis Hof.

♪

[TJ] With all of the violations and all of the...

illegal things that have gone on

and that he has done with the brothels,

anybody else would've been shut down.

There's no way someone couldn't have

been in his pocket.

♪

Lamar Odom was on television,

and he was talking about how Dennis Hof

tried to kill him.

[Host] You said that the owner of the brothel,

Dennis Hof, you said he tried to kill you.

[Lamar] You [beep] right he did.

If I'm telling you I didn't do drugs that night...

and somebody drugged me,

I'm gonna blame it on the owner.

[Monica] I remember him saying that he didn't do

no drugs, and that

it was Dennis and his girls.

He knew exactly what he was doing.

He did everything he did on his own.

♪

[Arash] Lamar today, I love the fact that he has

launched these addiction rehabilitation centers.

The one thing that I always told him is that

you can make an impact, you can change people

just by telling your story.

He knows that he has not lived the perfect life,

but I think he can really change people

and really help them.

The Lamar Odom incident

affected Love Ranch Vegas' reputation

in several ways.

Drugs in a brothel is a bad thing.

Nobody wants that.

It's very low, and...

it doesn't scream safety.

The fact that the press was crawling all over

the brothel, clients don't want, ah,

some place where the press is going to be.

And as much as Dennis felt like there's no headline

that's a bad headline, this particular headline

did a lot of damage.

It really almost killed the house.

♪

♪

[Monica] To this day, I can't get a hold of Ryder.

And the stuff that I have heard isn't good.

Right now, I'm happy.

I make my own money now, and...

I would never go back to doing escort work, ever.

It worked out for me and for some other girls, but...

that's just not the place- that's not a forever thing.

And some girls are still there.

[Off-screen] They're stuck.

♪

[Monica] So, I'm very proud of myself.

♪

He was so proud of Cathouse, it hurt him deeply

when it was pulled from the air.

[DeAnne] Without Cathouse to make him relevant,

he became more and more desperate

to get into the media.

[Sonja] He was upset about the county upping the rates

for licensing, and he got a suggestion,

"Well, why don't you run for office and solve that?"

[Dennis] If Donald Trump can do it, I can do it.

I thought he's just, you know,

looking for free publicity.

Dennis Hof is our new Republican.

[DeAnne] Man, his ego was through the roof.

He survived off of very little sleep.

[Sonja] He exhausted himself and his staff

running for office.

He had won the primary, so he thought

he was totally untouchable.

- Hello. - Hi!

I'm Detective Tucker.

[DeAnne] Dennis has raped so many women

who haven't reported their crimes.

But, when Dennis was running for office,

several women did come forward.

[Shonda] The new girl.

She went to the hospital and got a rape kit.

And the state police got involved.

He pushes me down on the bed...

by grabbing my throat.

Mr. Hof is extremely rough with her.

Then I start to say, "Stop!"

"I don't want to do this."

Hello, Mr. Hof! Sherriff's Office.

There's a report of sexual assault at your residence.

[DeAnne] The police found out that Dennis

was sending women on these illegal out dates.

If Mr. Hof is found guilty of these crimes,

he's not coming home. He's goinna die in prison.