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Siegfried & Roy are longtime Las Vegas headliners whose longrunning illusion and magic act closed October 3, 2003 after “Roy” was mauled by one of the act's performing white tigers during a performance.
The two men,
Siegfried Fischbacher (born June 13, 1939 in Rosenheim, Germany) and
Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn (born October 3, 1944 in Nordenham, Germany), are naturalized American citizens who made large white tigers appear and disappear in their act. Their use of white tigers led them to develop a breeding program for the animals.
Siegfried is a traditional magician, or illusionist, while Roy grew up among exotic animals and is known for his rapport with them. Siegfried and Roy performed 5,750 shows together, mostly at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas where they were hired by then-Mirage owner Steve Wynn in 1990 for an annual guarantee of $57.5 million. In 2001, they signed a lifetime contract with the hotel.
The two worked together for over 40 years since meeting on a cruise ship where they were both performers. For some years, they shared living quarters and the conventional wisdom in Vegas is that they are former lovers.
According to the 2000 Forbes Celebrity 100 List, Siegfried & Roy were then the 9th-highest-paid celebrities in the U.S., coming in just behind motion picture producer and director
Steven Spielberg.
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