60 Facts About Steve Wynn

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Stephen Alan Wynn is an American real estate developer and art collector.

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Steve Wynn was known for his involvement in the luxury casino and hotel industry, prior to being forced to step down.

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In 2000, Steve Wynn sold his company, Mirage Resorts, to MGM Grand Inc.

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In 2006, Steve Wynn was inducted into the American Gaming Association Hall of Fame.

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Steve Wynn collects fine art, including pieces by artists such as Picasso and Claude Monet.

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Steve Wynn was born Stephen Alan Weinberg in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 27,1942.

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Steve Wynn was raised in Utica, New York, and graduated from The Manlius School, a private boys' school east of Syracuse, New York, in 1959.

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Steve Wynn received his Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.

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Steve Wynn relinquished a position at Yale Law School to take charge of his family's bingo parlor in Waysons Corner, Maryland.

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In 1971, Steve Wynn bought a controlling interest in the Golden Nugget Las Vegas, one of the oldest casinos in the city.

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Frank Sinatra was a periodic headliner at the Golden Nugget, and Steve Wynn has since maintained a relationship with the Sinatra family, even naming a restaurant at Encore "Sinatra".

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In 1980, Steve Wynn began construction on the Golden Nugget Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Steve Wynn sold the Atlantic City Golden Nugget in 1987 for $440 million.

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In 1995, Steve Wynn's company proposed to build the Le Jardin hotel-casino in the marina area if the state of New Jersey built a road that connected to the hotel-casino.

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Steve Wynn had agreed to allow Circus Circus Enterprises and Boyd Gaming to build casinos on the site, but later reneged on the agreement.

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On October 15,1998, Steve Wynn opened the even more opulent Bellagio, a $1.6 billion resort considered among the world's most spectacular hotels.

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Steve Wynn brought Mirage Resorts' style to Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1999, where he oversaw development of the 1,835-room Beau Rivage.

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Beau Rivage was originally the name Steve Wynn wanted to give the Bellagio, though he had decided on Bellagio after vacationing in the Italian region of the same name.

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Five weeks before the deal was closed Steve Wynn purchased the Desert Inn for $270 million.

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Steve Wynn became a billionaire in 2004, when his net worth doubled to $1.3 billion.

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In 2008, Steve Wynn Macau became the fifth Asian hotel to receive the Mobil Five-Star award.

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In 2016, Steve Wynn opened the Steve Wynn Palace in Cotai, Macao, PRC.

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In September 2014, Steve Wynn was awarded the license to build the Steve Wynn Boston Harbor casino in the eastern Massachusetts city of Everett, near downtown Boston.

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On February 6,2018, Steve Wynn stepped down as CEO of Steve Wynn Resorts, though he denied all allegations.

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Between 2012 and 2018, Steve Wynn contributed more than $2.5 million to the Republican Governors Association and donated $411,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, $248,000 to the Republican National Committee, and $100,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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26.

In 2016, Steve Wynn donated $833,000 to Republican Party joint fundraising committees.

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In October 2017 The Wall Street Journal reported that Steve Wynn, who has financial interests in China, lobbied President Trump on behalf of the Chinese government to return a Chinese dissident, Guo Wengui, to China.

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In May 2021, the Department of Justice ordered Steve Wynn to register as a foreign agent of China, and filed a civil lawsuit.

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Steve Wynn denied acting as a foreign agent and lobbying on China's behalf.

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The court did not determine whether Steve Wynn actually acted as a foreign agent, but ruled that he could not be retroactively compelled to register after his alleged relationship with the Chinese government had ended.

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Steve Wynn is known for amassing a large collection of fine art, often placing the pieces in his various casinos and hotels.

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In 2004, Steve Wynn purchased Vermeer's A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals at a Sotheby's auction for $30 million.

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Steve Wynn later sold the painting to the Leiden Collection owned by Thomas Kaplan for the same price.

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Steve Wynn purchased the painting from the St Francis of Assisi Foundation, a White Plains-based nonprofit organization that supports Capuchin priests on their missionary trips.

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In May 2014, Steve Wynn acquired Popeye from the same artist for over $2 million, putting the work on display at Steve Wynn Las Vegas.

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In February 2020, Steve Wynn bought two Picasso paintings from Donald Marron's collection for $105 million: Woman with Beret and Collar and Jacqueline.

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Steve Wynn purchased the painting from an anonymous collector in a private sale in 2001.

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Steve Wynn sued his insurance company over the $54 million difference with the virtual selling price.

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In 2013, Wynn sold Le Reve to Steven A Cohen for $155 million.

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Elaine Steve Wynn was a director of the company's board for 13 years, ending in 2015.

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Kevyn was kidnapped in 1993 and Steve Wynn paid $1.45 million in ransom for her safe return.

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Steve Wynn is the mother of Alex Hissom and art gallerist Nick Hissom, great-niece of Ben Novack, and cousin of Ben Novack Jr.

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Steve Wynn suffers from the degenerative eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which he was diagnosed with in 1971.

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In 2010, Steve Wynn switched to a vegan diet after watching the documentary Eating by Mike Anderson.

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In November 2006, Steve Wynn was inducted into the American Gaming Association Hall of Fame.

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46.

Steve Wynn was named to Institutional Investor's Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey from 2008 through 2011.

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In November 2014, Steve Wynn ranked 17th on Harvard Business Review's list of 100 best-performing CEOs in the world.

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Steve Wynn filed suit against Trump and Gomes for breach of contract, as Gomes was contracted to work at the Nugget until 1992.

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Also in 1991, Gomes alleged in a countersuit that Steve Wynn used harsh language against Gomes, but Steve Wynn's representatives denied the allegations.

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In 1997, Wynn sued Barricade Books for defamation over the catalog description of an unauthorized biography Running Scared by John L Smith.

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Steve Wynn was initially awarded $3.2 million, forcing Barricade into bankruptcy.

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In February 2012, Clark County, Nevada, judge Mark Denton ruled that Francis damaged the reputation of Steve Wynn and awarded Steve Wynn $7.5 million in damages.

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In September 2012, after Francis repeated the alleged threat on television and Steve Wynn added a second defamation claim, a jury awarded Steve Wynn $40 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

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The judgment was amended to $19 million, after Steve Wynn failed to prove that Francis could pay the original amount.

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Steve Wynn later accused Okada's company, Aruze, of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, leading to a Department of Justice probe into Aruze's gifts of hotel rooms and other expenses to Philippine, South Korean, and Japanese gaming officials.

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Steve Wynn's lawsuit was dismissed, with US District Judge William Orrick III ruling that Chanos's remark was constitutionally protected speech.

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Steve Wynn has sought to weaken Nevada's anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation legislation.

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Steve Wynn has publicly clashed with Yelp over the issue.

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One accusation came from a manicurist whom Steve Wynn later paid a $7.5 million settlement.

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Angelica Limcaco, a former salon manager at Wynn Las Vegas, filed a federal lawsuit in 2018 against Wynn Resorts and Steve Wynn claiming that she was fired, blacklisted and intimidated into silence after she elevated her concerns in 2006 to then-president of Wynn Las Vegas, Andrew Pascal.