![]() If you’re thinking that the Stardust name might appeal to an older audience, that’s not a bad guess. Image Credit: (Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Darrin Bush) Amid the global financial crisis in 2007, the hotel was detonated with explosives, with the tower imploding before an enthusiastic crowd. ![]() The company added a 32-story tower in 1991, but the hotel’s presence faded with the construction of mega-casinos in the 1990s and 2000s. Boyd Gaming took over the Stardust as the operator and became the owner in 1985. General manager Frank Rosenthal (played by actor Robert Deniro in the Casino film) lured the magicians with a gift of a Rolls Royce, a car that his wife (played by Sharon Stone) had turned down.Īfter years of illegally skimming profits from the casino, the mob was finally ousted from the Stardust in 1983, when the Nevada Gaming Control Board seized control. The Stardust was home to the Le Lido de Paris burlesque show, and it was the first Las Vegas stage of the legendary magicians Siegfried & Roy. While the Stardust evokes a lot of memories and its early mob connections inspired the 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino, the hotel was demolished with great fanfare in 2007. Image Credit: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.
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