Question of the Day - 03 January 2026

Originally at the Riviera, Crazy Girls opened in 1987 and ran there until 2015, when the Riv shut down, to be imploded for an expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. 

The show then moved to Planet Hollywood and the Sin City Showroom, where it played for another six years. The famous bronze statue of the Crazy Girls’ derrières that graced the front of the Riviera for nearly 20 years, titled “No Ifs, Ands, Or Butts,” relocated to Planet Hollywood with the show. 

The 4,500-pound sculpture was created by a Santa Fe artist in 1997 to celebrate Crazy Girls' 10th anniversary. It cost $325,000 originally and the bronze itself is worth around $100,000. It was on display in front of the Riv and the Sin City showroom for a total of 24 years.

Crazy Girls closed again in June 2021, a victim of Caesars Entertainment’s eliminating several smaller showrooms that month. The bronze statue was removed and stuck unceremoniously into storage. It was reported at the time that the butts had been rubbed by more than a million visitors, hoping, as you say in the question, to get lucky (in one way or another).

It sat wherever it was stored, collecting dust, but not forgotten, for another four years. In June of last year, it was rescued by Derek Stevens, who put on a triumphant parade of a single float up the Strip to Circa.

The unveiling ceremony took place in late June and featured eight members of the Crazy Girls cast, including three whose butts are, reportedly, among the seven in the sculpture. "No Ifs, Ands, or Butts" now resides near the elevators at the entrance to the Legacy Club, Circa's rooftop lounge. 

We consider the statue a treasured piece of bygone Las Vegas and we commend Derek Stevens for rescuing it from obscurity.