Sapphire Pool at Rio closes due to arrests
Metro is working extra hard this month.
First came the stripping of two nightclubs at Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino, allegedly for illegal activities including underage drinking, drug use, and prostitution.
Now comes the stripping of, well, a strip club-affiliated pool.
Open just over a year at Rio Las Vegas, the Sapphire pool was the first mash-up of swimming pool and strip club, with a private section reserved for adults only (meaning "topless"). The entry fee was $30 (women entered for free), the same price to enter the gentlemen's club under the same name.
Rio has now closed the Sapphire pool, based on recent arrests regarding prostitution and the selling of drugs.
The regular pool at the Rio will remain open, but the "ultra-hot Brazilian style adult pool" is no more.
For its part, the spin department at Harrah's (which owns Rio) whipped up their own reason for the pool's closure: "insufficient integrity" during a "routine integrity check."
Ah, they make it sound so sweet.
Pictured above is an ad in happier times, which was quickly pulled from the Rio Las Vegas website, along with all mentions of the word Sapphire.
Below is a Player's Network video of the "topless or less" Sapphire girls at the opening of the pool, which also shows a Hugh Hefner-ish Doyle Brunson:
Sexy Sapphire Girls Party at the Rio at New Topless Pool!
