Elaine Wynn, Las Vegas casino co-founder, dies at 82

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Elaine Wynn, a salient philanthropist who co-founded a casino empire successful Las Vegas with her ex-husband Steve Wynn, passed distant astatine the property of 82, according to a merchandise from the Elaine Wynn and Family Foundation.

“She played an instrumental relation successful shaping the modern-day Las Vegas, from the Golden Nugget wherever she infused glitter gulch with a small luxury, to The Mirage, establishing the paradigm for everything that followed, including Bellagio, Wynn and Encore resorts,” the merchandise announcing her decease read.

“She understood that Las Vegas was not conscionable a destination; it was an experience—an ever-evolving tapestry woven with threads of art, culture, and the quality spirit.”

The release, which was sent astatine astir 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, did not database a origin of death.

“As we retrieve Elaine Wynn, we observe a beingness lived with purpose—a beingness that embraced
the bonzer imaginable of Las Vegas, a metropolis she genuinely loved. Her bequest volition echo through
the vibrant streets and the stories of those she touched,” the merchandise stated.

The largest idiosyncratic shareholder of Wynn Resorts, Wynn’s interaction extended beyond Las Vegas. At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Wynn championed accessibility to the arts, helping to heighten the cultueral cloth of the community.

“Her enactment was characterized by grace and ambition, ensuring that creation remained an indispensable portion of our shared experience,” the merchandise read.

Wynn precocious announced a collaboration with Pritzker Prize-winning designer Francis Kere to physique the Las Vegas Art Museum, different illustration of her commitment, not conscionable to the taste arts, but to Las Vegas itself.

Through the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation, Wynn supported assemblage organizations that aligned with her passions, including improving children’s lives done education.

Wynn co-chaired Nevada’s Blue Ribbon Education Reform Task Force successful 2011 and served connected Nevada’s State Board of Education, adjacent elected arsenic its President twice.

The merchandise stated that Wynn’s household was her top pride. She was a parent to 2 daughters, Kevyn and Gillian, and a grandma of 7 grandchildren.

“In the bosom and psyche of Las Vegas, she volition everlastingly reign, not arsenic Ms. Las Vegas, but arsenic a visionary who turned possibilities into realities, inspiring each who followed successful her footsteps.”

Shortly aft the announcement of her death, Wynn Resorts enactment retired the pursuing statement:

We are each profoundly saddened to perceive of the passing of Elaine Wynn, and nonstop our condolences to her daughters, grandchildren, and her galore adjacent friends.  As co-founder and 1 of the largest shareholders of Wynn Resorts, she helped to make and turn the institution to go the astir esteemed luxury edifice marque successful the world.  Her galore talents and peculiar touches are indelibly imprinted connected the institution and inactive evident passim our resorts. 

Elaine cared profoundly astir the employees of our resorts.  The existent and erstwhile employees who worked alongside her to make Wynn and Encore Las Vegas cherish the galore fond memories they person of her, particularly of erstwhile they opened Wynn Las Vegas with her 20 years agone this month. 

She was a tireless advocator for Las Vegas, for children and their education, and for the arts.  We’re grateful that the enduring consciousness of philanthropy she instilled successful our institution continues to this day.

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