Steve Wynn Threatens Biopic Producers with Legal Action

Disgraced cassino mogul Steve Wynn allay has to a greater extent than plenty money left hand to fund a monolithic sound fight against his enemies. And that’s exactly what he’s threatening to launch against the producers of a young biopic about him.

Earlier this month, we reported that The Rise & Fall of Steve Wynn is beingness adapted for the screen by Christina Binkley from her own 2018 New House of York Times bestseller, Winner Takes All: How Casino Moghul Steve Wynn Won — and Lost — the High Stakes Gamble to Own Las Vegas.

On Wednesday, TMZ claimed to hold viewed a missive fired off on Wynn’s behalf by ball of fire attorney Patricia Glaser. The letter, paraphrased by the online entertainment intelligence site,  threatens Binkley and her co-producers, Sir Walter Scott Kaplan and Emmet McDermott, with effectual activeness for portraying any unproven accusations against Wynn. It cites Binkley’s “history of sour statements and mischaracterizations” regarding the casino mogul.

Glaser, of Donald Glaser Wield Fink Leslie Howard Avechen & Shapiro LLP, is the attorney who served as coordinating counsel for the MGM Grand in the litigation followers its tragical November 1980 fire. She won the society a $76 one thousand thousand closure in its subsequent insurance litigation.

She also represented former Golden State State Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, Olympic gilded medalist Shaun White, and former Epic Records chairman Charlie Walk in sexual misconduct cases.

No Wynn Situation?

Though Glaser’s letter of the alphabet didn’t threaten to halt the biopic’s production — basically, because Wynn has no legal right on to perform so — it did discourage producers that every fact presented in their story had best come in from full vetted sources.

Binkley’s volume chronicles Wynn’s spectacular ascend from scrappy bingo parlour operator to billionaire cassino mogul, and his even out to a greater extent dramatic pin after a 2018 Wall Street Journal article accused him of engaging inwards a “decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct” toward female person staff.

That was the second published version of the book. The first, which appeared inward 2008, split up its focussing among Wynn and former MGM Grand president/CEO Kirk Kerkorian and former Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman.

At the time, Binkley claimed Wynn was furious over several aspects of her story. Those included the delineation of the buyout of Mirage Resorts as an unfriendly merger, Wynn’s reckless enjoyment of Mirage Resorts funds, and his nickel-and-diming of MGM Mirage over their purchase of his former place on the Shadow Creek golf game course.

According to TMZ,  Wynn didn’t sue Binkley or her publishing firm o'er either variant of the book.

The Rise & Fall of Steve Wynn will live band in the first place inwards the 1990s. a press out free said it and illustrates “how Wynn’s unparalleled get for force at long last be him everything, creating a vacuum-clean of power filled by his ex-wife, Elaine.”

Wynn has denied all sexual assault accusations against him and has ne'er been convicted of a crime. However, the controversy caused him to resign from his berth as chairman and CEO of the company that bears his name. He also sold his post in Wynn Resorts inward a play to protect its gambling licenses inwards NV and Massachusetts.

Sources told TMZ that producers are already casting, though no more distribution trade has been announced.