Penn Jillette is known for his outrageous magic acts, but it’s the United Church of Bacon that hopes to pull off a big trick: conjuring up $500,000 to buy his Las Vegas-area home.

Jillette has moved out of his home of 20 years — which he dubbed the “Slammer” — into a house more appropriate for his wife and two kids.

“The Slammer was designed for an entertainer to hide,” Jillette told HuffPost. “As children age, they want to be closer to their friends and their school.”

The 10 acres where the house sits has become more valuable than the actual house, and Jillette believes developers would love to build cookie cutter homes on the site.

Jillette realizes he will one day have to sell the property, but, ideally, he’d like to preserve the 7,500-square-foot estate as is, including its seven bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, movie theatre, steam room, hot tub, 25-yard lap pool, two kitchens, and fully operational recording studio.

However, in order to afford his new home, he has to sell the Slammer — or at least get money to pay for its upkeep. To do that, the
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