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———aeee . LOS ANGELES TIMES DATED er a att we shy 7 BUGSIE’S FLAMINGO, SOLD TO HOTEL MAN Adler of El Rancho Vegas Pays $3,000,000... for Sidin Gangster's Ornate Desert Club LAS VEGAS (Nev.) July 12. W.P}—One of Ben amin (Bug- sie) Siegel's rival hotel owners disclosed today he had_bought the slain gangster’s ornate Flamingo casino for $3,000,000. He is/Ssnford D, Adier, who by the’ deal hecame president both of the Flamingo and El Rancho Vegas, -- 2 ‘The Flamingo reportedly ‘had been losing money ag fast as did the customers at its .gaming tables. Siegel’s need. - to make up the losses was be- jeved to have contributed to; is assassination June 26 in everly Hills. 4 Costing almost $6,000,000 ‘to uild, the Flamingo had red- and-blue lighted hushes and a a green pond, tugs thicker than {..a dealer's hank roll and more mirrors than a crazy house. Behind a ‘fountain in the lob by were $7 to $30 rooms fre quented by movie stars who liked the custom-made beds— six inches wider and atx» _ inches longer. Backing the desert colossus, ' besides Siegel, w Rothberg, vice-president of the ‘American Distilleries Co, of Peorla, Il; *Hilly_ Wilkerson, publisher“ of a movie trade journal, pd Joe Ross, a Hol lywood lawyer" 4 The Flamingo was go} by the Nevada Hotel Corp., a ing through *{ Murray Los Angeles—broker-—— = ph, : a ecann pdt ne niet be oe ose