steve wynn

     

Before this hotel mogul's elbow broke through it, a Picasso he owned was worth $139 million; after, $85 million

Trivia about steve wynn

  • This Mirage & Treasure Island mogul is credited with giving gambling resorts a family image
  • This New Haven-born casino developer is nearly at the end of the list
  • He hit the jackpot when he built the Mirage & Bellagio hotels on the Las Vegas Strip
  • The Mirage was the first resort venture he built in Las Vegas; Treasure Island, his second
  • In the 1990s he bought the Dunes hotel, demolished it & built the Bellagio on the site
  • With the 1989 opening of the Mirage, this casino mogul launched a new building boom