Why Lisa Vanderpump Is Closing Her Famed L.A. Restaurant Pump for Good

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It's a bittersweet time for Vanderpump Rules fans: Lisa Vanderpump announced her namesake West Hollywood eatery Pump is permanently shutting its doors. Find retired erstwhile it closes.

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It's the extremity of an epoch for Vanderpump Rules fans.

Lisa Vanderpump is closing her famed West Hollywood restaurant Pump for good.

"It's with dense hearts that we denote that the lease astatine Pump Restaurant is expiring," the Bravo prima told TMZ May 4, "and we volition beryllium closing its doors connected July 5th aft 10 years of beauteous evenings nether our olive trees."

As for the crushed why? The outlet reports Lisa's landlords raised their yearly rent to a whopping $1 million.

"While we person loved our clip operating Pump, to instrumentality connected different 10-year lease with a immense summation successful rent by the landlords, is not thing we are acceptable to perpetrate to," the 62-year-old restauranteur added. "After successfully moving 37+ establishments for galore years, this benignant of rent is untenable."

Lisa concluded, "Thank you for the past decennary of support, we person loved our staff, our patrons and our clip together."

Pump opened down thoroughfare from Lisa's SUR edifice successful 2014 and rapidly became a hotspot for personage Bravoholics, including Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Lawrence.

Pump has besides been featured galore times connected some The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules.

Lisa's edifice TomTom—co-owned by Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz—is besides conscionable a fewer doors down connected the aforesaid block.

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Despite the eatery's closing, Lisa reportedly has caller concern ventures connected the horizon. A root told TMZ she's opening 2 much restaurants astatine Caesars Palace successful Las Vegas.

Lisa already has 1 Sin City location—Vanderpump à Paris—at the aforesaid resort.

E! News has reached retired to LVP.

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