Lamar Odom was found unconscious in a Las Vegas-area brothel and taken to a hospital Tuesday afternoon, brothel owner Dennis Hof told the Los Angeles Times.
A spokeswoman for the Desert View Hospital in Pahrump, Nevada, confirmed that Odom had been taken to its facility and then transported to another hospital, but said she could not give out more information for privacy reasons.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Department was called at about 3:15 p.m. to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance, Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement.
Odom was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but he was too tall for the helicopter that was available and he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.
Odom told Hof on Saturday that he wanted to come out to Hof’s Love Ranch brothel near Las Vegas on Saturday, and Odom stayed in Hof’s home attached to the brothel, Hof told The Times.
Odom “wanted to get away from everybody, wanted to have fun,” said Hof, who was in northern Nevada over the weekend.
Hof’s workers reported that Odom had ordered a bottle of cognac over the weekend but had not finished it by Tuesday — a third of the bottle was still left, Hof said.
Odom was also apparently in a “somber” mood Sunday, Hof said his workers told him.
“Other than that, [he was in] good spirits, wanted to have a good time,” Hof said.
On Tuesday morning, Hof’s employees saw Odom at 6 a.m., and then two women at the brothel went to check on him at 3 p.m. and found him unconscious, Hof said.
When they turned Odom on his side, “terrible stuff came out” of his mouth or nose, Hof said.
Hof’s employees said Odom appeared to be taking a lot of herbal Viagra, and they didn’t see him with illegal drugs, Hof said.
Hof said his brothel was a nice getaway from the media and for people to “be who they want to be as long as they want to be there.”
An employee from Odom’s management company was sent to pick up Odom’s backpack and cellphone, Hof said.
The 35-year-old last played in the NBA in 2013 and saw reality TV fame through his four-year marriage to Khloe Kardashian.
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