Congratulations! "Hooker for Jesus" Annie Lobert gets married (by Danny Gans' pastor in Danny Gans' church)

Congratulations to Tabloid Baby pal Annie Lobert, who got married last night.

Annie was a star of The Michael Lohan Reality Project produced by our pals at Frozen Pictures. She was the woman who comes to Michael Lohan's hotel room and refuses to sit on the bed with him (below).

Annie married a guy named Oz Fox, who's a guitarist with the Christian rock group, Stryper.


Annie is a former Las Vegas call girl who turned her life over to Jesus Christ and started the organization, Hookers for Jesus, which tries to save women from the sex and slave trades. Annie often goes into the streets of Vegas to minister directly to the hookers. She is also a terrific, emotional evangelizing public speaker and a really warm, nice person.

Annie and Oz were married at The Church at South Las Vegas by evangelizing minister Benny Perez.

Tabloid Baby readers will recognize the church and preacher from our Danny Gans coverage. The Church at South Las Vegas was Danny Gans' church and Benny Perez was one of Danny Gans' pastors.

John Birch Society honors Danny Gans

Tabloid Baby’s determined investigation into the mysterious death of Las Vegas headliner Danny Gans and the equally mysterious lack of coverage by his hometown media has resulted in international attention of all stripes.

One item that caught our eye this morning is a tribute to Gans on the website for the right-wing (anti-Communist, anti civil rights-legislation) The John Birch Society. The last person we heard mention The John Birch Society was Phil Ochs, and he died about thirty years ago, but apparently they're still out there.


Included in the post, ‘Sin City Showman Who Loved Jesus’:

“…Given the other talented headliners that are synonymous with the Strip, like Celine Dion, Wayne Newton, and the Blue Man Group, it was a huge compliment that Gans was voted ‘Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year’ eleven years in a row. Tickets for his sold-out show at the Mirage started at about $100. Earlier this year, Gans had switched to plusher digs at the Encore Theater (seating capacity: 1500), which is part of the Wynn Resorts.


“Not surprisingly, the success made him wealthy, but it also made him generous, Gans had raised two million dollars for local charities. 

Benny Perez, pastor of The Church at South Las Vegas, told KVBC-TV, an NBC-affiliate, how this unusual showman managed to keep it together in a place that is notoriously nicknamed ‘Sin City’:



"'Danny Gans loved God; number two; Danny Gans loved his family; and number three; Danny Gans loved life. And if we could just do those three basic things - all of us love God, love families, our friends, our people around us, and love life - I think Las Vegas and the world would be left a little bit better. And that's the message of Danny Gans.’

“The athletic Gans never intended to be a variety entertainer. Since age seven, Gans’ dream was to play major league baseball, but an Achilles tendon injury during his time in the minor leagues ended that pursuit. Gans told Bonnie Hunt, who hosts a daytime talk show, that while he was recovering in the hospital from his life-altering accident, his roommate, a man ill with cancer, gave him an odd message: ‘I know why I’m here right now. I’m going to be fine. I’m here for you. I’m your messenger, and my message to you is God has something better for you. I don’t know what that is, but it’s going to make you happier than baseball.’

“Two months after that conversation, the twenty-something Gans was performing stand-up comedy; his hospital roommate/messenger was eventually healed from cancer; and the rest, as they say, is history.

.."

As we'd predicted, the Danny Gans legend is already spreading far beyond Las Vegas, and like Elvis Presley before him, Gans promises to become even bigger in his afterlife thanks to tales like those and the the since-retracted story from Gans’ manager Chip Lightman and Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke that has nonetheless quickly become part of Gans lore and which caps the Birch item:

"Ironically, Gans closed his very last show with a song he did not typically sing. It was Bobby Darin’s 'The Curtain Falls'..."

Saint Danny Gans? Las Vegas newscaster refers to late entertainer as "religious leader," perhaps explaining lack of investigation by local news media

"He wowed audiences on the Strip
for 13 years,
but Danny Gans was
much more than an entertainer;
the Las Vegas icon
was also a religious leader
in the community."
--Gerard Ramalho,
weekend anchorman
KVBC-TV News, Las Vegas

Those words by a newscaster on local NBC affiliate KVBC last night may explain why there is a lack of investigative reporting and a less-than-critical view among Las Vegas media regarding the mysterious death of Strip superstar Danny Gans. Gans, the musical impressionist who died in his sleep Friday morning of unexplained causes, is already being venerated as a religious figure, a distinction not achieved by Elvis Presley until a number of years-- not hours-- after his death.

Gans was known to be a Born Again Christian, recorded a Christian album and spoke of his transition from injured ballplayer to Las Vegas superstar in spiritual, religious terms-- and when his close friend, entertainment reporter Alicia Jacobs reported Friday on his death, she waved a Bible she said Gans had given to her.

The newscaster who called Gans "a religious leader in the community was speaking of Gans' involvement with the six-year-old megachurch-in-the-making, The Church at South Las Vegas. Gans reportedly had been involved with the church for the past year or so and his funeral is expected to take place there. A message from the church pastor, evangelist Benny Perez, appears on the church website:

We mourn the loss of one of our church family, Danny Gans who went to be with Jesus early this morning.

We are shocked at the tragic, sudden loss of a great husband, father and entertainer.

I ask that all of our church family pray for Danny's family during this most tragic time.

We know that God is the one that can bring comfort to his family and friends.

Pastor Benny Perez
Lead Pastor

Perez, an evangelist who shares Gans' flair for showmanship, is seen above, being interrupted onstage by a demon. Below, he speaks of the miraculous healing of a deformed heart.