Remember when Steve Wynn put his elbow through a Picasso?

[DURHAM D]

Tycoon rips £75m Picasso

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/19/arts.artsnews

The 64-year-old has amassed a personal collection that includes works by Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Warhol and Turner. It also includes Le Rêve, one of two Picassos that Mr Wynn owns, a striking oil of the painter's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. Wynn paid $48.4m for the painting in 1997.

Late last month Mr Wynn invited guests to see the painting, which hangs in his Las Vegas office, before it was sent to the buyer, a hedge-fund mogul, Steven Cohen.

Mr Wynn began to explain the painting's provenance to his guests, gesturing enthusiastically about the finer points of the picture's erotic subtext. "So then I made a gesture with my right hand," Mr Wynn told the New Yorker magazine, "and my right elbow hit the picture. It punctured the picture."

ETA: Steve Cohen bought it for $155M

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wynn-art-cohen/hedge-fund-manager-cohen-buys-wynns-picasso-for-155-million-report-idUSBRE92P0O220130326?feedType=RSS

[MineralMan]

1. Clearly, Steve Wynn is an idiot.

A malevolent idiot, at that.

[Loryn]

2. I remember this.

IIRC he placed the blame on having very poor vision.

[Mariana]

3. Bull hockey. What he has is very poor common sense.

Most people learn very early in their lives not to enthusiastically wave their arms around when they're standing near fragile objects that are valuable. This jackass hasn't figured it out yet.

[Loryn]

5. Or Bull hockey!

He has no common sense and also happens to be an idiot.

Works for me.

[kskiska]

15. He said in a 60 Minutes interview that he's going blind.

He has retinitis pigmentosa. He was diagnosed with this disease in 1971 and became officially blind in 2010. Wynn, 71, has retinitis pigmentosa, an illness that influences 1 in 4,000 individuals and causes night visual deficiency and shortcoming in fringe vision. An apparatus at Las Vegas affairs, he’s frequently seen inclining toward an associate’s arm at evening time occasions.

[underpants]

4. WYNNer

[Nevernose]

6. I did once eat at his Picasso restaurant at the Bellagio

So named because there are original Picasso paintings on every wall, and a few sculptures.

It was extravagant well past decadence. The bill for four people was over $2500. I had a single glass of scotch that was almost $100. Everything was of amazing quality, granted, but ridiculous anyway. Stuff like “poached pheasant egg on truffled foie gras.”

Note that we didn’t pay for any of it, because we are not stupid or greedy. A friend owed us some favors, her aunt is a high roller from China, and so we got the whole thing comped. Still. Holy shit. Eating there on a free expense account will make you think bringing back the guillotine is a perfectly reasonable, somewhat tame, response to income inequality.

[VMA131Marine]

7. Prices like that are to control who eats there

Can't have the 0.1% mixing with the hoi polloi

[ProudLib72]

8. I just took a look at the menu

Not very much choice for vegetarians. In fact, the one and only main dish is....wait for it.... fucking eggplant! You would think that an award winning chef would know how to make something besides the standard eggplant that every single other restaurant falls back on for their vegetarian option.

[MLAA]

9. All of the restaurants at the Wynn currently have multiple vegan options that are delicious.

That is the reason I have stayed there 4 or 5 times over the last few years. I had heard somewhere that his wife is vegan, thus all the wonderful options.

The vegan chicken Parmesan chicken is amazing at Sinatra’s and at the more casual Italian restaurant.

The vegan meatball pizza is wonderful at the casual Italian restaurant.

The vegan chicken and waffles was a treat at one of the cafes.

The vegan dim sum dumplings are amazing at the casual Chinese restaurant.

The vegan chocolate milkshake was a treat at the sandwich shop (didn’t try the veggie burger)

The buffet has about 30 vegan options including cool desserts

After all these choices, it is hard to go back to any other place in Vegas that barely offer one dish (eggplant!) 🙂

[ProudLib72]

10. They must not have included those on the online menu then

I would get the chicken and waffles!

[MLAA]

13. It had a spicy syrup with hint of Tabasco!

Now with the latest revelations about the asshole Wynn I am not sure I can go back there. But as Mr. MLAA will say all the casinos in Las Vegas are either owned or run by republican asses 🤨

[Nevernose]

14. Bellagio is no longer owned by Wynn

The restaurant is a leftover. Steve Wynn sold the Bellagio to pay for The Wynn hotel/casino.

Like the other poster said though, his current restaurants all offer several vegan options. My vegan daughter says all of the restaurants are awesome, but I’ve only ever eaten at the buffet, once, seven or eight years ago.

I try not to give my money to either Steve Wynn or Sheldon Adelson down the street. Nor can I afford to

[panader0]

11. I'm not religious, but I'm sure that's a sin.

[kcr]

12. That was the first thing I thought of when the scandal broke

Him elbowing that painting.