20 Facts About Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino in Paradise, Nevada, United States.

Caesars Palace was founded in 1966 by Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin, who sought to create an opulent facility that gave guests a sense of life during the Roman Empire.

Caesars Palace is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Caesars Entertainment.

Caesars Palace began plans to build a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian.

The objective of the palace was to ensure an atmosphere in which everybody staying at the hotel would feel like a Caesar; this is why the name "Caesars Palace" lacks an apostrophe, making "Caesars" a plural instead of possessive noun.

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Caesars Palace was instrumental in beginning a new era of lavish casinos from the late 1960s onward.

Caesars Palace soon shed its restaurant operations and changed its name to Caesars World.

Caesars Palace was performing at Caesars when his mother Dolly died in a plane crash in January 1977, and in 1979 he was awarded the Grammy Trustees Award in a party at the hotel, while celebrating 40 years in show business and his 64th birthday.

The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace opened in 1992; it was one of the first venues in the city where shopping, particularly at high-end fashion house stores, was an attraction in itself.

In September 2015, Caesars Palace agreed to pay the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network an $8 million civil money penalty for violating the Bank Secrecy Act.

In October 2017, ownership of Caesars Palace was transferred to Vici Properties as part of a corporate spin-off; Vici leased the property back to Caesars Entertainment at an initial annual rent of $165 million.

The Caesars Palace Tower opened in 1998 and mirrors the Greco-Roman theme of the hotel with fluted columns and Corinthian columns and pediments on its facade and fountains and statues scattered around its interior space.

Caesars Palace Forum is the original casino of the hotel which opened in 1966 with 30 gaming tables and 250 slot machines.

In 2007, Caesars Palace opened a Pussycat Dolls Casino directly across from the Pussycat Dolls Lounge.

New Yorker writes that Caesars Palace was "dubbed the Home of Champions after hosting decades of events like boxing matches, auto races, and volleyball tournaments".

Two bouts between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe were contested here, including Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe in November 1992, and a revenge match a year later in which Holyfield took the title, and he fought with Michael Moorer at Caesars Palace, including Evander Holyfield vs Michael Moorer in April 1994 for the WBA, IBF and Lineal Heavyweight Championships.

Caesars Palace has played host to a number of professional wrestling events throughout the 1990s, the most notable of which is WWE's WrestleMania IX in April 1993 which capitalized on the Roman theme of the venue.

When Savoy was approached to open a second restaurant in Vegas, he initially said no, until Caesars Palace told him they wanted him to recreate what he had done in Paris.

Caesars Palace's request was that to maintain quality, the restaurant must be limited to service five days a week, to which the management agreed.

The short-lived 1990s game show Caesars Palace Challenge taped in the casino's theatre and pulled contestants from the audience; losing players were given tickets to Caesars Palace shows and dinner as a consolation prize, while an audience game played at the end offered audience members the chance to get casino chips and chocolate coins.