Roy Horn of ‘Siegfried and Roy’ fame dead of coronavirus
Michael Jackson laced these motherfukkas with a banger
Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, half of Las Vegas icons Siegfried & Roy, has died from complications stemming from COVID-19.
“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fishbacher, Horn’s collaborator, said in a statement provided to Page Six.
“From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.”
The German-born Horn met Siegfried on a cruise ship and bonded over Roy’s pet cheetah, Chico, which he had smuggled on board.
The duo’s act, which blended big-cat-taming with David Copperfield-esque spectacle, began in Vegas in 1967. But it was their $30-million, 14-year-run at the city’s Mirage theater, beginning in 1989, turned them into global stars at the height of the era’s glitzy excesses.
https://pagesix.com/2020/05/08/roy-horn-dead-at-75-from-coronavirus-complications/
Michael Jackson laced these motherfukkas with a banger
Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, half of Las Vegas icons Siegfried & Roy, has died from complications stemming from COVID-19.
“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fishbacher, Horn’s collaborator, said in a statement provided to Page Six.
“From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.”
The German-born Horn met Siegfried on a cruise ship and bonded over Roy’s pet cheetah, Chico, which he had smuggled on board.
The duo’s act, which blended big-cat-taming with David Copperfield-esque spectacle, began in Vegas in 1967. But it was their $30-million, 14-year-run at the city’s Mirage theater, beginning in 1989, turned them into global stars at the height of the era’s glitzy excesses.
https://pagesix.com/2020/05/08/roy-horn-dead-at-75-from-coronavirus-complications/
Last edited:
