Dead brothel owner wins assembly seat in Nevada

On Monday, the Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof was laid to rest in a lipstickred casket strewn with roses. A floral arrangement approximating the silhouettes of two mating rabbits marked his grave.

The next day, he was elected to the Nevada State Assembly.

Hof, the owner of several legal brothels who gained notoriety from appearing on the HBO series “Cathouse,” was found unresponsive and not breathing at the age of 72 on Oct. 16, four months after winning the Republican primary for his district. On Tuesday, unofficial results showed him beating Democrat Lesia Romanov with 63 percent of the vote.

His victory, however, was not unexpected. The sprawling district is reliably conservative, and under state law, candidates who are elected posthumously are replaced by another member of their party.