The Rise and Fall of Steve Wynn: Uncovering the Tragic Story [DOCUMENTARY] 

I worked at the Golden Nugget for 3 years in the late 70's. The expansion, the remodeling and addition of the fantastic hotel, it was an exciting time. He changed The Nugget from a grind joint to a place as nice as anything on The Strip. And though I was only a frontline employee, once in a while Steve would see us working, stop and thank us for our work, and 20 minutes later one of the employees from the snack bar would bring a stack of (really good) fresh pizzas and trays of soft drinks and tell us Steve sent it and said to tell you thanks and to take a break. Every year the employees raised money from their own pockets and from friends and family for the charity that was trying to find a treatment for the eye disease that was causing Steve to lose his sight. Occasionally I'd end up riding the employee elevator in the back of the house with Steve and he never talked down to me. He used to talk about how he and Elaine wanted to change Vegas and bring in culture like a Symphony, stuff like that and I could tell he was sincere. He used to eat in the employee dining room to make sure the food was good. And he had this little quirk, loved bread pudding so there was always a fresh batch he shared with us. I moved away from Vegas for family reasons after I left The Nugget. People were saying Steve had lost his mind and went too far with the Mirage, would have to make the unbelievable amount of $1 million a day to break even and nobody could do that. But The Mirage started out pulling down about $2 million a day from day one. I started hearing stuff about Steve ten years or so ago. Just my opinion, but it seemed like if what I was hearing was true, that he was making decisions and doing things that the Steve I remembered would not have. Just my opinion, but there's a reason why people say "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". It's a tough business and you have to deal with some less than saintly characters. And it's a sexy place and if you don't know that you better not go. I just think after all those decades of basically being the King, being able to go swim with his dolphins mornings at the Mirage, hanging with every movie and music star you ever heard of, and having the very best of everything, it just got to him and like a boxer who keeps fighting past his prime, it led to his demise. IMO, it's a modern day classic tragedy, that the guy who helped make Vegas what it is today went out the way he did.

@@omcincy7622 I think you are spot on, thanks for posting.

He most definitely was no hero! Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Hero

Well done video. I have been in the casino business for 25 yrs and the 7 years I worked for Wynn were the best. He is extremely loyal to his staff. No boss has ever treated me as well.

I was Room Res Mgr. awhile after opening ..kenny Rogers yrs. Bob Maxey was VP".a great time!

Woops.. ai was at Golden Nugget, not Bellagio

He probably was real good and beneficial to a lot more people... He was bad or offensive to one or two.

He definitely is brilliant, and very artistic!

Sounds like when village people praise the drug Lords for their charity and protection

It merely tells what their experience was, it doesn't include those whom may have been fearful, had a settlement, were advised not to speak, and "it is merely a Produced Media Piece",, These can be PR Pieces, they can be +/- The Public really needs to realize "How effective Media, the Stories, What they are Told" ... how influential Information is, particularly when there's 0urpose, Profits, and power, behind the Planning and Production. a Sociologist/Behavioralist and Journalist.

​@@bethbartlett5692 It doesn't include those points, when there are no formal charges What are your thoughts on extortion !

@@KevinShaughnessy-mt9jt exactly. It's not like this guy was convicted. It's bs

Crazy!! I worked for Steve at Treasure Island in the mid 1990's. After being born and raised in Vegas, I moved to Seattle in 1999. Feels good to visit Vegas as a tourist now!

@@ChrisJohnson-hk6es back in the day when Wynn owned Treasure Island it was amazing too visit there , my kids used to get chased by the pirates and loved it , The Black spot Grill was great as where the staff , my wife and I had a hot roll on the craps table , I rolled for over an hour before I got crapped out , whole table made a killing , all the dealers where well toked too , then best of all , my whole families stay was comped by a casino host , truly amazing 🤩 I miss those good old days in Old Vegas .

@@petrus666love this is crazy!! The Black Spot Grille was my first job! I will never forget the time Steve Wynn was eating there with his wife and a friend. I had a tray filled with plates and glasses. Steve gets up and nearly faceplanted into my tray! If I remember correctly, he was nearly blind around that time. So he stops and just stands there, and says, "watch where your going!" 😂😂😂 That was the one and only time I met and saw Steve. I also remember this amazing dessert we had there. It was a vanilla ice cream covered in chunks of white chocolate, with a raspberry drizzle all over it. That was so so good! I haven't been back in years. I take it the restaurant is gone now?

@@ChrisJohnson-hk6es yes Chris unfortunately it went many years ago , but it was a great place when it was open .

Unfortunately Steve Wynn is banned from property

Helped many careers, and destroyed many others. Just like so many other horny men, who use the 'business' couch as their tool to get the women who worked for them, to give up what he wanted.

No, Circus Circus is the best hotel.

@@Locutus lol

They are not just hotels, they are classed as resorts, with golf clubs and things out the back. Wynn's vision and architects built some wonderful properties like Encore.

I can't like his vision It lacks value for anyone but himself.

Exactly !!! Las Vegas, would not be what it is Today, without the vision and drive of Steve Wynn !!! 🎲🎰

Not worth it at the expense of human abuse get a grip

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@@AlreadyShort great name perfect cause you are also already SHORT sighted 😂

We need the fall of nasty gorge Soros he owned practically all of Caesars properties at one time right when the pandemic hit mysteriously, he sold them to the Carano’s, which on the Reno casinos. I will never bit Eddie Caesars property as long as he has anything to do with it.

Sigfried and Roy already had a show in Vegas before the Mirage

@@anjelromero4608 oh I read that they were originally at either stardust or the frontier. But I believe it was the lido show at the startdust.they first started on cruise ships. But I thank you for your comment.

I worked for a company for ten years did all of his pyro. I even brought specially designed pyro to him/the casino. They treated us-right; gave us a suite on the celebrity floor for the day and feed us like celebrities. Winn even 'tired" to convince our boss the marry his daughter! He always did right by us.

Working for Steve at the Bellagio was a privilege. Our employee dining room served better food than most restaurants. I worked graveyard and was amazed of the army of employees who, every night would clean the casino floor top to bottom. Kirk Kerkran bought us out and lamented that the Bellagio was just another casino. Well, after he took it over, it changed into just anoher casino. Kirk cut the cleaning staff and compromised our employee dining room. Many other chages that did not affect me, but from then on, it was downhill.

Exactly !!! Steve Wynn, brought Las Vegas, to a whole New Level !!!! of Class, Distinction and Sophistication!!! World Class Resort !!!! Every aspect of Las Vegas......has been transformed by the the Vision of Steve Wynn !!!!

That's a bit overboard with the fandom. Those women were just trying to do their job. Imagine your Mom or wife receiving that kind of treatment. If he had stayed faithful to his wife (who was beautiful) then he could still be at the top.

@@craigshields8806 must be so wonderful to live such a perfect life that you could throw those stones ! sit down and stay quiet ! You were not in the room during those allegations.

@@gf9747 My life ain't perfect but I have never sexually assaulted a woman nor paid a woman to keep quiet. Be brave and read all those allegations and charges. Your hero is the Harvey Weinstein of casino moguls. No man will step down because of false allegations. So I won't sit down because men like you protect the rich from their crimes because you idolize them while people like your Mother have to live with the assault all their lives.

Innocent until proven guilty.

Agree. I just wrote a comment too about that. I think much of this MeToo stuff is about how much money can they get out of the guy. It’s about the $$$!

Wow. That is amazing. Yes he was one of a kind.

Everybody has a dark side. It didn't make him evil to the core. It makes him a jerk who went too far with things he had no business doing. That darkness has a tendency to come out of some people during times of high stress. If say losing ones eyesight, a nasty divorce, and the public hearing of his transgressions causing that divorce would cause a terrific amount of stress. Then, here's comes the blooming asshatery. None of this excuses what he allegedly has done, but it at least shows one doesn't have to be a truly evil creep, but instead made some horrid choices and did some straight up stupid things. I don't care how intelligent a person is, how perfect a business person one is etc, anybody can fall down, some just fall down really hard.

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Mirage used pina colada to mask the natural gas from the volcano.

I covered the kidnapping in a previous video. Super long youtube videos are not good for the channel. Here is the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-slRqnriib7U.html

Glad you think so!

I agree

@@NOTLeavingLV well done sir. The view count speaks for itself.

And I stayed at the Golden Nugget from 1992 to 2003 and every experience was a great one. Steve Wynn SAVED Las Vegas in the late 80s and 90s.......period.

@@steveludwig4200 Golden Nugget was my home from 2011-2017, and it is also a fabulous property 👌

@@marky147 Last time I stayed at GN_Las Vegas was in 2012 or so and I just got sick of everything OUTSIDE the property on FSE. Too loud with bad bands, too many people selling all sorts of crap amd just a crappy "mall like" vibe so I started going to GN-Laughlin instead for a low key vibe more like Vegas 50 or 60 years ago...ha ha.

@@steveludwig4200 haha! I stayed at Circa during NFR in ‘21 and it was chaos outside the casinos 😬

Exactly!!! Exactly !!! Exactly !!! 💯 Without Steve Wynn, vision and bravado !!! Las Vegas, NV would not be The World Class Resort Destination, it is today !!

Thanks, and thanks for being OG here on the channel all this time!

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Thanks Jason.

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Facts and common sense are rare these days. 😉 For the few that accused him there are thousands that have a totally different experience working for him.

Thanks.

More to come!

And his supposed ties to the mob, yet nothing happened to him. Strange?

Thanks, it is hard to be that way. The fact we must use titles like this hurts people thinking it can be unbiased. Thank you very much for watching, stay tuned and maybe subscribe for more!

ive been lucky enough to stay in the penthouse mirage.....its the entire floor!!!! 6 personal staff and private elevator and limosine and jet, muesuem tapestries annd statuse and painting and gold with marble everywhere you look, floor to ceiling 360 degree views

Glad you enjoyed it

Glad you liked it!

Thank you very much!

I will be doing a video on Sarno. The guy would not have been able to exist in the modern day culture we live in. Just a character of a lost time who was not just ACCUSED of the things he did, but actually DID them.

Good point. 🤔

That's exactly what came to my mind. Sometimes people can misconstrue people actions, not realizing they are suffering from a disability, or health issue that is not visible..pun unintended.

Come on now, the man built an empire and for many years was a powerful arrogant human, and a pig to many women. I don’t deny he was a great business leader and visionary, but let’s not deny his transgressions. Think of your daughter when a man behaves like that.

@@VegasWinner55Slots your daughter should be at home instead of throwing at mens arms

@@VegasWinner55Slots it’s nice to see not everyone is praising a predator. He can be a visionary and change Vegas without reaching to establish this man’s innocence…I’m no judge and I wasn’t there but like you said imagine if it was your daughter. I can imagine it being myself,my sisters and cousins who have also dealt with bosses who used their power and position to take advantage

Thanks for watching!

Steve Wynn Reinvented, 4.2 miles of the Las Vegas landscape !

Don't we all miss those days? It gets harder and harder every year now

Haha😂

Yeah so? It's called a JOKE. Soimething people don't understand these days.

@@acegibson9533 Agreed…Buttttt considering the times he was in and the location and….well I don’t think he was necessarily joking if you get my drift

@@acegibson9533 Hahahahhaha. They’re still out in Vegas. Still have money power and control. They used to come to the Wynn at carousel the bar in the middle. I was a kid. You wouldn’t know if nobody told you. I guess it’s better that way.

Awesome yes!