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ong we, Aietnene yey tt OM or: . LOS ANGELES TYMES DATED W3/¢ 7 BUGSIE’S FLAMINGO SPLD TO HOTEL MAN Adler of El Rancho Vegas Pays $3,000,000 for Sidin Gangster’s Ornate Desert Club LAS VEGAS (Nev.) guly12. < green pond, rugs thicker than UP)—One of Benjamin .(Bug- {a dealer's hank roll and more sie) Siegel's rival hotel owners disclosed today he had _bought slain gangster’s ornate Flamingo casino for $3,000,000. He ifSanford D. Adier, who’ bythe’ deal became president both of the Flamingo and Hi Rancho Vegas, iealy ie amingo reporte: had been losing money ag fast as did the customers at its gaming tables. Siegel’s need . - to make up the losses was be- leved to have contributed tof is assassination June 20 in jeverly Hills. * Costing almost $6,000,000 "to uild, the Flamingo had red- lue lighted bushes and a mirrors than a crazy house. Behind a ‘fountain in the lob- by were $7 to $30 rooms tre- quented by movie stars who liked the custom-made beds— six inches wider and aix | Inches longer, Backing the desert colossus, besides Siegel, wi Harry _ Rothberg, vice-pres{dent of the Pmerioan Bistilleries Co, of Peorla, Ill; y__ Wilkerson, publisher “ota wiovie trade journal, a: foe Ross, a Hole lywood lawyer. The Flamingo was sot by the Nevada Hotel Corp., aging through \/ Murray iph, Los Angel