Ask Vegas Vic: Is it true that one of the Crazy Girls in the famous photo was a man?

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008 | 2 a.m.

Question: Is it true that one of the Crazy Girls in the famous photo was a man?

I’m glad we can resolve that issue once and for all. Folks have whispered for years that one of those famous derrieres used to market the Crazy Girls topless show belongs to an hombre. (Boy, is this a tough image for Vegas Vic to wrap his hat around.)

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The publicity shot has been plastered on billboards and plunked atop taxis, and was even used to cast the figures for the bronze sculpture outside the Riviera. What tourist hasn’t patted one of those shiny behinds for good luck?

I called Bob Vannucci, the Riviera head honcho who was there for the publicity shot. “Rest assured, there’s no man in there,” he told Vegas Vic.

But Vannucci has an idea where the rumor started. “It probably goes back to when there was a transsexual in the show in the mid- to late -’80s. The hotel found out later that she really had been a man.” Glad Vegas Vic didn’t see that!

As for the photo, taken in the mid-1990s, Vannucci says “she had left long before we took the shot.”

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