Donald “Don” J
. Laughlin, a resort owner and the namesake of a southern Nevada town that he turned into a tourist destination, has died. He was 92. Laughlin died Sunday at his penthouse home at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Diana Fuchs, the resort's marketing director, said Monday. He died of natural causes. Family and other relatives had been with Laughlin for several days before his death. “Don ...
When Laughlin was in ninth grade, his school principal issued an ultimatum to either stay in school or stay in the slot business, where he made $500 a week. “I said, ‘I’m making three times what you are, so I’m out the door,’” Laughlin recalled to the Review-Journal. In 1964, 10 years after buying a gambling business in North Las Vegas, Laughlin sold it for $165,000, according to his biography posted on the resort’s website.
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