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Reporter: Corey Levitan

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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2028 stories by Corey Levitan

Las Vegas Icon Tony Bennett Dies at 96

Tony Bennett, the masterful crooner, and interpreter of American standards, died Friday at age 96. Though no cause of death was released, his family publicly revealed his struggle with Alzheimer’s disease in 2021. In having to share Bennett, Las Vegas comes in...

Corey Levitan July 21, 2023

Here’s Why Scantily Clad Women Brawled on a Las Vegas Casino Floor

It’s not every day that videos go viral featuring a woman being dragged off a motorized scooter in a luxury casino resort as another woman yanks her attacker's hair. So, when you find out why it occurred, this becomes news. The melee,...

Corey Levitan July 21, 2023

Gilgo Beach Suspected Serial Killer Has Las Vegas Ties

Las Vegas investigators are looking into unsolved murder cases there for a possible connection to the Manhattan architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested and charged last week in the deaths of three of the 11...

Corey Levitan July 20, 2023

Tupac Murder Search Seized Bullet Cartridges, Computers from Vegas-Area Home

New details have emerged about the unsolved 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Police reactivated the investigation this week, and more than two dozen items were confiscated from a house at 2204 Maple Shade Street in Henderson, Nev. on Monday. That's according...

Corey Levitan July 20, 2023

Steve Wynn Agrees to Pay $10M to Nevada Gaming Regulators to Settle 2019 Complaint

Disgraced casino mogul Steve Wynn has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to the Nevada Gaming Control Board over allegations of his sexual misconduct exposed in 2018. The pending settlement agreement, signed by Wynn on Monday, was filed Wednesday with the...

Corey Levitan July 19, 2023

UPDATE: Tupac Las Vegas Search Tied to Uncle of Suspected Murderer Orlando Anderson

UPDATE: The Las Vegas area home searched by police this week in connection with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder reportedly belongs to Paula Clemons. She is the wife of South Side Compton Crips member Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, who was the uncle...

Corey Levitan July 19, 2023

Delta Passengers Pass Out Awaiting Takeoff in Las Vegas Heat

Multiple passengers fell ill and passed out on Monday afternoon aboard a flight waiting to take off in excessive heat from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to Fox Business News. Delta Airlines Flight 555 to Atlanta, which was queued...

Corey Levitan July 18, 2023

Daniel Weinman Wins Largest WSOP Main Event Prize Ever

A 35-year-old poker pro from Atlanta is on top of the poker world. Daniel Weinman won $12.1 million, the biggest prize in World Series of Poker (WSOP) history, and his second bracelet on Monday afternoon. Weinman outlasted a record-breaking field of 10,043...

Corey Levitan July 17, 2023

VIDEO: Fans Walk Out of Miranda Lambert’s Vegas Residency After She Slams Selfie-Takers

Miranda Lambert lost a small chunk of her audience on Saturday night in Las Vegas when they walked out on her Planet Hollywood residency. The country singer had paused a song to berate a group of female fans for using her song...

Corey Levitan July 17, 2023

Pizza Their Mind: $53 Las Vegas Pie Stokes Tourist Hanger

A video pointing out the price for a pie at Di Fara Pizza at the Caesars Palace food hall has gone viral. Posted on Saturday on Las Vegas YouTube influencer Jacob Orth’s Twitter feed, "This is How Crazy Food Prices Are in...

Corey Levitan July 16, 2023