Almost immediately after the attack that nearly ended Roy’s life, investigators from multiple agencies descended onto the Las Vegas Strip, according to The New York Post. Steven Leckart, the executive producer and host of the Apple TV+ podcast “Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy,” said that in addition to the local police, the United States Department of Agriculture and even Homeland Security all came calling.
As it turns out, allegedly something was amiss in the audience that night: an impossibly tall woman with an impossibly tall beehive haircut. Indeed, even businessman Steve Wynn, who owned the Mirage, the casino where Siegfried and Roy performed, took notice of the spectator. “The theory was that this woman smuggled a scent in her hairdo. After all, who will check a woman’s hair for a small spray bottle? The thinking was that there was a pheromone or exotic animal urine that was used to distract the tiger,” Leckhart said. And, he claims, there’s precedent for a cat being distracted by scents that come off of women. Supposedly another animal in Siegfried and Roy’s menagerie, Mantecore’s brother Jahan, once got “extremely excited” by Demi Moore’s perfume.
