{"id":21014,"date":"2018-01-27T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21014"},"modified":"2018-01-27T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:10:39","slug":"steve-wynn-times-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/steve-wynn-times-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wynn: Time’s up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the penny dropped on Steve Wynn<\/strong>, as multiple reports of sexual predation made the news. According to the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, we’re not talking about one or two accusers<\/a> but “dozens,” over a period \"\"of decades. Without diminishing the gravity of the situation, this does not come as news: Wynn’s reputation as wolf dates back at least 15 years but almost no one has gone on the record about it before. According to the New York Times<\/em>, the mogul “frequently demanded naked massages from female employees, sometimes pressuring them for sex and to masturbate him.” Wynn and his company threw Elaine Wynn<\/strong> under the bus<\/a>, charging her with fomenting the whole thing to further her own lawsuits.\u00a0\u201cIt is clear that Mr. Wynn\u2019s ex-wife has sought to use a negative public relations campaign to achieve what she has been unable to do in the courtroom: tarnish the reputation of Mr. Wynn in an attempt to pressure a revised divorce settlement from him,” read a formal statement.<\/p>\n

(The WSJ<\/em> story is co-authored by Alexandra Berzon<\/strong>, who won a Pulitzer Prize<\/strong> for her coverage of “City Cemetary” [CityCenter<\/strong>] and is the best in the business.)<\/p>\n

Details of the allegations (of which I’ve heard even worse) have a familiar ring, such as the intimidating presence of Wynn’s German Shepherds<\/a>. Reported the WSJ<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cFormer employees said they sometimes \"\"entered fake appointments in the books to help other female workers get around a request for services in Mr. Wynn\u2019s office or arranged for others to pose as assistants so they wouldn\u2019t be alone with him. They told of female employees hiding in the bathroom or back rooms when they learned he was on the way to the salon.\u201d The alleged victims, aware that they held some of the best-paying jobs in Sin City, generally found it in their interest to keep quiet<\/a> and put up with behavior from Wynn that, if true, is too gross to be described in these pages.<\/p>\n