Dennis Hof

Dennis Hof, America’s biggest pimp, is dead, and I am about to speak ill of him. Yes, I know the protocol – ‘wait until the body is at least cold’. But I won’t be following polite form in this instance, and I will not be alone. Hof, 72, was found dead in one of his brothels, after a weekend-long birthday celebration, by the porn actor Ron Jeremy. At the time of his death, Hof, who won the nomination contest for a Republican state assembly seat, was looking forward to becoming an elected politician. Hof, who was being investigated for various sexual crimes against women, including rape and trafficking, at the time of his death, made that other pimp and exploiter of women, Hugh Hefner, look like a radical feminist.