DRII Diamond Resorts International, Inc.

This Amendment No. 9 to Schedule 13D (this “Amendment”) relates to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Diamond Resorts International, Inc. (the “Issuer”), and amends each of (i) the Schedule 13D filed by Best Amigos Partners, LLC (“BAP”), Diamond Oursurance, LLC, LDK Holdco, LLC and Lowell D. Kraff with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 5, 2013, as amended by Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2, Amendment No. 3, Amendment No. 4, Amendment No. 5, Amendment No. 6, Amendment No. 7, and Amendment No. 8 to such Schedule 13D filed on June 13, 2014, August 18, 2014, October 3, 2014, March 4, 2015, March 10, 2015, March 24, 2015, July 19, 2016, and August 2, 2016, respectively and (ii) the Schedule 13D filed by Praesumo Partners, LLC (“Praesumo” and, together with BAP, Diamond Oursurance, LLC, LDK Holdco, LLC and Mr. Kraff, the “Reporting Persons”) with the SEC on August 5, 2013, as amended by Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2 and Amendment No. 3 to such Schedule 13D filed on June 13, 2014, August 18, 2014, and October 3, 2014, respectively (together, as so amended, the “Schedule 13D”). The address of the principal executive offices of the Issuer is 10600 West Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada 89135.

This Amendment is being filed by the Reporting Persons to furnish the additional information set forth herein. Except as specifically provided herein, this Amendment does not modify any of the information previously reported in the Schedule 13D. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D. This is the final amendment to the Schedule 13D and constitutes an “exit filing” for the Reporting Persons.

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended by adding the following:

On June 29, 2016, the Issuer entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Dakota Parent, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”) and Dakota Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), providing for the acquisition of the Issuer by Parent in a two-step all cash transaction, consisting of a tender offer (the “Offer”), followed by a subsequent back-end merger of Merger Sub with and into the Issuer (the “Merger”), with the Issuer surviving the Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent. On July 14, 2016, Merger Sub commenced the Offer. On September 2, 2016, the Offer was consummated and the Merger was effected. Parent and Merger Sub are affiliates of certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC.

In connection with the Offer, the Reporting Persons (with the exception of Praesumo) tendered, and the Purchaser accepted, an aggregate of 312,066 shares of Common Stock for a purchase price of $30.25 per share, without interest and less any applicable withholding tax, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated July 14, 2016. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each of the options held by Mr. Kraff, representing the right to purchase an aggregate of 1,212,585 shares of Common Stock, was canceled as of the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”) and converted into the right to receive a lump-sum cash payment promptly after the Effective Time equal to the product of (i) the number of shares underlying such option and (ii) the excess, if any, of the merger consideration per share over the exercise price per share of such option, without interest and less any applicable withholding tax. Pursuant to Merger Agreement, each of the 1,655,766 shares of Common Stock held by Praesumo was canceled as of the Effective Time and converted into the right to receive an amount of cash equal to the product of (i) the number of shares and (ii) the merger consideration per share.

Items 5(a), (b) and (c) of the Schedule 13D are hereby amended and restated as follows:

(a)-(b) As a result of the consummation of the Offer and the closing of the Merger described in Item 4 of this Amendment, none of the Reporting Persons or any of the other members of the “group” formed as a result of the Stockholders’ Agreement beneficially owns, or has any voting power or dispositive power over, any shares of the Issuer.

(c) No transactions in the Common Stock have been effected by the Reporting Persons within the past 60 days, except as disclosed in Amendment No. 7, Amendment No. 8, and Item 4 of this Amendment, which disclosures are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5(e)of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

(e) On September 2, 2016, as a result of the transactions described in Item 4 of this Amendment, the Reporting Persons ceased to be the beneficial owners of more than 5% of the Common Stock.

Item 7 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended by adding the following exhibits:

SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry and to the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the undersigned certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: September 8, 2016.