Lamar Odom Paid $75,000 for Round-the-Clock Sex and Companionship at Brothel

Oct. 15, 2015, 6:09 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 15, 2015, 7:05 PM EDT

By Alex Johnson and Jacob Rascon

Retired basketball star Lamar Odom, who remained unresponsive Thursday in a Las Vegas hospital after he was found unconscious at the Love Ranch this week, paid $75,000 for 24-hour-a-day companionship from two women, the brothel's owner told NBC News Thursday.

Odom used a credit card to take care of the five-day package, which Love Ranch owner Dennis Hof said included sex and activities like cooking, watching TV together and going out to dinner — a deal commonly called the "girlfriend experience."

Odom arrived last Saturday at the brothel in the western Nevada town of Crystal. He had planned to extend his stay through this Saturday to celebrate Hof's birthday but had yet to renegotiate his bill, Hof said.

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Odom remained in a coma Thursday at Sunrise General Hospital, where he has been visited by his wife, Khloé Kardashian, the reality TV star, and former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant.

While Odom and Kardashian were widely reported to have filed for divorce in December 2013, citing irreconcilable differences, California court records obtained Wednesday by NBC News show that the divorce still hasn't been finalized.

Marriage law attorneys said that means Kardashian would have legal authority in the event someone has to make an "end of life" decision to remove Odom from life support.

Alex Johnson

Alex Johnson has been a reporter and editor for NBC News since 2000. He previously worked for The Charlotte Observer, Congressional Quarterly, Knight-Ridder and The Washington Post.

Jacob Rascon

Jacob Rascon is an NBC correspondent based in Dallas. He reports for all NBC News platforms including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, the Today Show and NBCNews.com.

Rascon joined NBC from KNBC in Los Angeles in the summer of 2014. Since that time, he has led the network's coverage of the largest wildfire in Washington state history, the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo over the Mojave desert and deadly tornadoes in Mississippi. He reported from Havana immediately following the announcement that the United States would resume diplomatic relations with Cuba after fifty years.

At KNBC, he helped lead the station's coverage of devastating California wildfires, mudslides and floods, the LAX shooting rampage, the manhunt for ex-LAPD fugitive Christopher Dorner and the Huntington Beach riots.

Prior to KNBC, Rascon worked at KFOX in El Paso, helping lead the station's coverage of devastating Texas wildfires, floods and ice storms, and illegal immigration, cartel violence and border politics.

Prior to KFOX, Rascon worked with ABC News in the Middle East during the Arab Spring, standing among more than one million Egyptians as they demanded the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, then Egypt's president.

He also worked at the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper in Salt Lake City, Utah and KBYI radio in Rexburg, Idaho, and even and reported out of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Rascon lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and three children.

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