The half-century-long saga of Rio Bravo Country Club – once a favored retreat for elites – has taken yet another, seemingly darker, turn.
The country club, situated on the doorstep of the southern Sierra Nevada next to the banks of the Kern River, was purchased in late 2023 by Jeremy and Kim Willer, a married Bakersfield couple who initially promised big improvements on the property’s massive, and long-neglected, footprint.
The Willers’ Rio Bravo dream, however, gradually turned into a drama-fueled nightmare. And in January, the club closed its doors in the weeks following the couple’s drawn-out public feud, which culminated in a barrage of allegations and a late-December divorce filing…