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Californian Billionaire Larry Ellison Buys Cal Neva Resort and Casino Previously Owned by Frank Sinatra

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A former Lake Tahoe casino owned by Frank Sinatra, and hangout of Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. may soon get new life thanks to an infusion of tech money from one of the Bay Area’s wealthiest residents. Larry Ellison, the founder and chairman of Oracle Corp. will pay $35.8 million to buy the Cal Neva Resort & […]

Steven Agar | October 26, 2017
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The Incredible History of the Cal-Neva Lodge on Lake Tahoe:

We’ve all heard the stories about Frank Sinatra, the Mafia, the secret tunnels, JFK and Marilyn Monroe, as well as the glamour and glitz of the Cal-Neva Casino on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. It all sounds like fantasy and legend, but many of the stories are true. Tahoe was a place for the rich, famous, and infamous in those days and they flocked to North Lake Tahoe’s Cal-Neva lodge from all over the world in droves. […]

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