Stardust Resort & Casino: mob skimming and implosion

The Stardust opened in 1958 and was long linked in federal investigations and reporting to organized-crime skimming operations in the 1970s and 1980s; those investigations and subsequent prosecutions are matters of public record. The resort closed in 2006 and was imploded in 2007, an event widely reported in news coverage. Local commentary and ghost-tour narratives sometimes describe the Stardust's violent and criminal history in terms of a "curse," though that language reflects folklore rather than legal findings.