Arthur and an unidentified friend, in an undated photo from his website. (Image: dirkarthurmagic.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLast Holdout<\/h2>\n
Up until July 2022, Arthur planned to single-handedly bring performing big cats back to the Las Vegas stage. He kept at least 10 of them in a private zoo on a 1-acre habitat west of the Strip near the Silverton at an estimated cost of up to $150K per year.<\/p>\n
However, Arthur\u2019s plans to stage a new animal show called \u201cMagic Unleashed\u201d were dashed when animal activists deluged the owner of the Notoriety Live theater at Fremont Street\u2019s Neonopolis, where Arthur had hoped to perform, with over 400 protest emails.<\/p>\n
Times for Arthur had apparently gotten so lean that, according to the R-J <\/em>obit, he last worked for the Westgate as an usher — presumably in the very theater where his show once headlined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he died on Sunday at his home at age 63, Las Vegas magician Dirk Arthur left behind 10 matters requiring immediate attention — six tigers, one snow leopard, two clouded leopards, and one bobcat. A representative of Clark County confirmed to KLAS-TV\/Las Vegas that the county\u2019s Animal Protection Services removed the cats from Arthur\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":294486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,81886],"tags":[82044,84519,82097,88379,23,82100,88378],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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