Flamingo Hotel's Bugsy Siegel connection and curse lore

The Flamingo Hotel was developed in the 1940s with financial backing tied to Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel; Siegel was murdered in 1947 in Beverly Hills, and the hotel's difficult early financial history has been documented in multiple historical accounts. That mob-era history has contributed to local folklore and repeated stories that the property is "cursed" or haunted, which are common themes on Las Vegas ghost tours and in popular articles. Such supernatural claims remain part of tourism and folklore rather than established factual phenomena.