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Flamingo Las Vegas (formerly the Flamingo Hilton [a]) is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment . The Flamingo includes a 72,299 sq ft (6,716.8 m 2 ) casino and a 28-story hotel with 3,460 rooms.
Film title Year released Location(s) used Ref(s) Heldorado: 1946 [citation needed]Ocean's 11: 1960 Riviera Hotel and Casino, Sands Hotel and Casino, Desert Inn, Sahara Hotel and Casino, Flamingo Las Vegas
In the mid-1940s, Siegel was operating in Las Vegas while his lieutenants worked on a business policy to secure all gambling in Los Angeles. [75] In May 1946, he decided that the agreement with Wilkerson had to be altered to give him control of the Flamingo. [80]
He was also the original developer of the Flamingo Las Vegas, but lost control of it to mobster Bugsy Siegel before construction was complete in 1946. [7] The cafe operated under a series of managers, including composer and businessman Turk Prujan. [8] Many ads for the Trocadero in the California Eagle contained the headline "Turk Prujan ...
In 1946, Lansky convinced the Italian-American Mafia to place Siegel in charge of Las Vegas, and became a major investor in Siegel's Flamingo Hotel. To protect himself from the type of prosecution which sent Al Capone to prison for tax evasion and prostitution , Lansky transferred the illegal earnings from his growing casino empire to a Swiss ...
Sedway and Greenbaum ran the El Cortez Casino in 1945, until Greenbaum was asked by William R. Wilkerson to manage casino operations for the Flamingo Hotel. In 1946, Bugsy Siegel took over construction and creative control of the Flamingo, until it was shut down in January 1947 due to mounting losses as a result of Siegel's skimming.
Later, on March 12, 1946, Crawford filed for divorce on "grounds of cruelty". [79] On April 25, they divorced. [80] Crawford married her fourth—and final—husband, Alfred Steele, at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas on May 10, 1955. [81] Crawford and Steele met at a party in 1954. By that time, Steele had become president of Pepsi-Cola. [82]
In 1944 Charles P. Squires sold the land parcel that would ultimately become the Flamingo Las Vegas built by Billy Wilkerson and Bugsy Siegel [5] which is commonly referred to as the first resort on the Las Vegas Strip, although both the El Rancho Vegas and the New Frontier Hotel and Casino were in operation prior to the Flamingo's opening in 1945.