Nudist Resort Residents Sue Management After Being Forced to Wear Clothes

Former and current tenants of nudist resort Olive Dell Ranch — once dubbed the “friendliest nudist resort in Southern California” — are suing after a policy change has forced them to wear clothes “at all times.”

In a legal complaint obtained by PEOPLE, residents alleged that the management at Olive Dell Ranch has threatened to evict them by enforcing “arbitrary rules” and imposing “arbitrary costs” that would inflict “anxiety and fear if they did not comply with the illegal demands.”

The document emphasized that many of the longtime residents are “seniors living on fixed incomes, veterans and disabled persons.”

“Plaintiffs alleged that the defendants have conspired to evict all the tenants from the Olive Dell Nudist Resort to increase the value of their real property holdings, and the concessions within the property, and attempted to do so (and sometimes succeeded in doing so) by imposing arbitrary rules, arbitrary costs, forcing tenants to work for Defendants, and by threatening any non-compliant tenant with loss of their homes or membership in the resort if they did not comply,” the complaint stated. 

“Each of the Defendants knew that their actions were illegal but also knew that the tenants would be put into a state [of] anxiety and fear if they did not comply with the illegal demands,” the complaint continued.  

According to the complaint, filed in the Superior Court of San Bernardino, the defendants issued a letter in November informing residents of their “decision to become a textile park” instead of remaining a nudist park. 

A textile park requires clothing, while a nudist park is clothing-optional. 

The “new clothing policy” stated that starting Dec. 6, 2024, “clothing will now be mandatory at all times at all common areas” and that starting Jan. 6, 2025, “clothing will be required at all times within the park premises including all sites” at the mobile home park.

Per the complaint, which was filed in May, “management is prohibited from unilaterally changing rules without notice” in mobile home parks.

New managers took over Olive Dell Ranch in 2019, and tenants have complained that the property has been neglected since then.

PEOPLE reached out to Olive Dell Ranch for comment on Friday, Sept. 5, but did not receive immediate responses.