Fire Destroys Bob Bashara’s Grosse Pointe Park Sex Dungeon Property

GROSSE POINTE PARK, MI — A restaurant building with upstairs apartments, including one formerly occupied by convicted murderer Bob Bashara, was destroyed in an early Sunday morning fire, according to media reports.

Now occupied by Rockefellers Oyster Bar and Grill, the building at 15402 Mack Ave. was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived around 6 a.m. They battled the five-alarm fire into the morning hours before extinguishing it.
According to reports at the scene, the fire started in one of the apartments around 5:30 a.m. and spread throughout the building. No one was injured, but the building is a total loss.

Arson is not suspected. The investigation is continuing, but authorities told WDIV-TV the fire started with a space heater. The tenant tried unsuccessfully to put it out before calling 911. Fire departments from Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Woods and Grosse Pointe Farms assisted in fighting the fire.

Bashara, who was convicted of killing his wife, Jane Bashara, in 2014, formerly owned the building, which at the time housed Dylan’s Raw Bar and The Hard Luck Cafe.

Bashara, formerly the president of the Grosse Pointe Park Rotary Club, church and a respected businessman, used the basement of the building as a sex dungeon, where he lived a secret life that included BDSM parties — bondage, discipline and sadomasochism — attended by prominent members of the community of the Pointes communities.

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