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A Las Vegas home formerly owned by Siegfried and Roy is under contract for $3 million.
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The duo lived on the estate for nearly 40 years, alongside their free-roaming tigers and lions.
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The buyers are George and Brett Carden, who own the Carden International Circus, per The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The lavish, jungle-themed Las Vegas mansion once owned by famous magician duo Siegfried and Roy is under contract for $3 million, days after it was listed on the market.
The late illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn lived in the estate — often referred to as the Jungle Palace — with many of their exotic pets, including white tigers and lions.
Siegfried and Roy bought the house in March 1982, per property records. The duo lived there for nearly four decades, up until their deaths.
Siegfried died of pancreatic cancer in January 2021 at age 81, while Roy died from Covid-19 complications in May 2020 at 75, per their New York Times obituaries.
The property was completed in 1954, per the listing. This is the second time the house has changed hands after Siegfried’s and Roy’s deaths.
The house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a metal gate emblazoned with the letters “SR,” and a pool out back. It features a white facade reminiscent of a castle, and a wildly varied interior, from an-all black bathroom and a bedroom with a massive print of an elephant to a red-carpeted staircase.
Tracy Spadafora and Jacob Taylor bought the Las Vegas compound in February for $1.87 million, per property records. According to online records, Taylor is a real-estate agent with Exp Realty.
Two weeks later, on March 4, the home was on the market again for $3 million, per listing records. The sellers did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
The estate was snapped up within days of it being relisted: George and Brett Carden, the owners of the Carden International Circus, told The Las Vegas Review-Journal on March 17 that they were in contract to buy the property at its asking price.
George said he knew Siegfried and Roy personally, and that the duo had attended the family’s circus performances at Orleans Arena.
“What we would like to do is preserve it for people to make it a shrine for them basically — a piece of history of Las Vegas that’s not torn down. It’s part of Las Vegas,” Brett added.
The Cardens did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
For decades, Siegfried and Roy dazzled crowds in Las Vegas with their magic performances and exotic animals.
Over the course of their entire career, the German-American duo generated more than $1 billion in ticket sales, the Guardian reported.
And it all began as a result of a chance meeting onboard a German cruise ship in 1957, per Roy’s New York Times obituary.
Siegfried, a steward, was doing magic tricks for passengers when cabin boy Roy approached him with a challenge.
“I told Siegfried if he could make rabbits come out of a hat, why couldn’t he make cheetahs appear?” Roy told the Times.
He presented Siegfried with Chico, a cheetah he had smuggled onboard, and together the trio became the ship’s newest entertainment act, per Roy’s obituary.
After performing around Europe for a few years — including in Monte Carlo for Princess Grace of Monaco — Siegfried and Roy debuted in Las Vegas in 1967, per Siegfried’s New York Times obituary.
The duo first played at the Tropicana, before becoming headliners at the Stardust in 1978, per The Atlantic.
In 1981, Siegfried and Roy moved to the Frontier, per The Atlantic. They stayed there for seven years and had a star-studded audience that…