Roy Horn, the Illusionist who blinded viewers as half of Siegfried and Roy, dies at 75

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Sunday, May 10, 2020 | 09:47 am

Roy Horn, the Illusionist who blinded viewers as half of Siegfried and Roy, dies at 75

News24xx.com - With his partner, Mr. Horn, has mesmerized crowds for decades, using an amazing mix of costumes, magical and exotic animals. He edited for complications of Covid-19.

Roy Horn, who levitated the tigers, made the elephants disappear, turned himself into a python and hypnotized the Las Vegas audience for decades, becoming half the team of the famous illusionist Siegfried and Roy, edited on Friday in Las Vegas, where he lived. He was 75 years old.

The cause was complications from Covid-19, a coronavirus disease, according to his publicist Dave Kirwin. Mr. Horne tested positive for the virus last week and edited it at MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas. Kirwin said.

The long-running production of German artists, one of the most successful in Las Vegas history, ended in October. 3, 2003, when Mr. Horn was beaten by a 400-pound white tiger on his 59th birthday, thrown into the throat and pulled backstage in front of a stunned 1500-person crowd at MGM Mirage Casino Hotel.

The assistant pulled the tiger by the tail, jumped on his back and tried to open his jaw. Another sprayed it with a fire extinguisher until it let go. But Mr. Horne's throat breath was fragmented, and the artery carrying oxygen to his brain was damaged. He still had a stroke and partial paralysis on his left side, he underwent two operations at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas and was placed in life support systems.

However, after several weeks in critical condition, the Horn began a long recovery, with rehabilitation at U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles. In 2004, he returned to his home in Las Vegas, and a few months later he walked again with help. There was even talk of a comeback, but medical experts and entertainment moguls found it extremely impossible.

In February 2009, Siegfried and Roy performed with the tiger for the last time, which was useful for the Brain Health Center. Lou Ruvo in Las Vegas, and officially left the business show in 2010.

With his partner Siegfried Fischbacher, Horn blinded the Las Vegas crowds for 35 years with an enchanting extravaganza that combined the glitter of sequin costumes and headdresses with feathers, the magic of smoke and laser, and the circus thrills of exotic animals, including rare white tigers and white lions. Under the spells of the illusionists, the white tiger turned into a beautiful woman, the six-ton elephant disappeared, the tiger swam over the audience, and Mr. Horn slipped down and became a snake.

“The world has lost one of the greatest wizards, but I have lost my best friend,” Mr. Fischbacher said in a statement on Friday. “From the moment we met, I knew that Roy and I would change the world together. There cannot be Siegfried without Roy and Roy without Siegfried. "

Showmen toured Europe, Japan, and elsewhere, and were featured in the 1999 3D Imax movie, 1994 television release, and the Radio City Music Hall in New York. They broke records for the longest performing in Las Vegas and were among the most popular and highest paid performers on the Strip. They also wrote the book Siegfried and Roy: Mastering the Impossible (1992).

Mr. Horn and Mr. Fischbacher, who was both a domestic and professional partner, kept his menageries, including dozens of exotic cats, in a closed tropical forest habitat in Mirage; to Jungle Paradise, their 88-acre estate outside the city; and in the Jungle Palace, their $ 10 million Spanish home in Las Vegas.