Casino mogul Steve Wynn refutes ‘preposterous’ allegations of sexual misconduct made by dozens of employees
Wall Street Journal said Wynn paid a US$7.5 million settlement to a former manicurist at his flagship Las Vegas resort who had accused Wynn of forcing her to have sex in his office in 2005
Dozens of past and present employees of Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn have recounted a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct by the billionaire who immediately denied the accusations as “preposterous”, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Wynn is the founder, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts – which also controls Wynn Macau.
Former and current company staff members were interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and claimed Wynn routinely pressured employees to perform sex acts.
The report was the latest in a wave of sexual abuse and harassment allegations levelled against powerful men during the past year, especially in the media and entertainment industries and politics.
Wynn has straddled both those worlds, as a prominent figure in the casino resort business who was named finance chairman of the US Republican National Committee last year.
Former workers, the Journal said, told of employees going to such lengths as making phoney entries in appointment books to help other female employees avoid a request for services in Wynn’s office, or arranged for others to pose as assistants so they would not be alone with him.