Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Flamingo Las Vegas" in English language version.
Flamingo Las Vegas offers 3,460 guestrooms and suites.
Siegel named the property after his girlfriend Virginia Hill — whose nickname was 'The Flamingo' because of her red hair and long legs [...]
The hotel was named by Bugsy, legend goes, either after the pink birds at Florida's Hialeah Park or his long-limbed girlfriend.
The famously paranoid mobster's completed Flamingo living quarters had 4-inch-thick concrete walls.
Barbara Hutton, they say, is sinking a small fortune into the half-completed Flamingo, which will be a gilt casino with hotel attached.
Giovenco said the opening of the 2,000-room Flamingo Hilton Laughlin in July and completing of the Flamingo Hilton Las Vegas' new tower in March will help alleviate some problems.
Harry Goldman, Parvin's partner in Parvin-Dohrmann—a multimillion-a-year hotel supply business in Los Angeles—held 77⁄1 percent. Other stockholders included singer Tony Martin and actor George Raft.
What helped drive up the cost was Siegel's obsession with security. Four-inch-thick concrete walls were reinforced by steel brought in from military shipyards, presumably to stop bullets from machine-gun toting rivals.
After a dispute with Rosen, Adler sold his 49 percent share of Flamingo Hotel (in a transaction brokered by Wiener and Jones) and departed for Northern Nevada.
The famously paranoid mobster's completed Flamingo living quarters had 4-inch-thick concrete walls.
What helped drive up the cost was Siegel's obsession with security. Four-inch-thick concrete walls were reinforced by steel brought in from military shipyards, presumably to stop bullets from machine-gun toting rivals.
