The resort’s furnishings – including gaming tables, chandeliers and flat-screen TVs – will be liquidated in a sale beginning May 14.Red Rock Resorts will permanently close and demolish its three Southern Nevada properties that have been closed for more than two years, the company said Friday, with plans to “reposition the land for sale.” The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority bought the 26-acre property in February for $182.5 million and will make it part of a revamped convention center complex.Ī spokesman for that group told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that no timetable has been established for the Riviera’s demolition. The hotel-casino now joins the Dunes, the Sands, the Sahara, the Aladdin and other departed resorts from a bygone Strip era. Shortly after noon, security guards began herding people to the exits, and the hotel’s website was pulled down. The Riviera’s 1,300 employees worked their last shifts Sunday and Monday amid throngs of curiosity-seekers crowding the casino for one last glimpse of an old-Vegas landmark. “Crazy Girls,” along with its infamous bronze-butts statue, is moving down the Strip to Planet Hollywood.

The Riviera was known mostly in its later years for hosting “Crazy Girls,” a long-running topless revue immortalized with a bronze statue outside the resort showing a line of thong-clad female dancers, their bare bottoms worn to a shine by repeated gropings from passers-by. In recent years, as neighboring hotels were torn down, the resort also suffered from a decline in foot traffic at the faded north end of the Strip.

Whatever happens in Vegas gets blown to bits in Vegas?īut its various owners struggled off and on with bankruptcy, and by the late 1990s “the Riv,” as its regulars called it, was eclipsed by a new wave of flashier-themed resorts such as the Mirage, the Bellagio and the Mandalay Bay. The 2,100-room hotel even hosted a heavyweight title fight in 1985 between Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks.

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