Reality Star Cited for Battery After Las Vegas Casino Fight

• Reality TV star Tarek El Moussa was cited for battery after allegedly kneeing another man unconscious
• The victim allegedly “got out of line” with El Moussa’s 77-year-old father, witnesses told TMZ
• The altercation occurred at the Venetian, where El Moussa had traveled with his family to speak at a trade show

Reality TV star Tarek El Moussa was cited for battery in Las Vegas after allegedly knocking a man out at the Palazzo at the Venetian Resort last Thursday.

Witnesses told TMZ that the star of HGTV’s “The Flip Off” kneed another man in the head, knocking him out. A source close to El Moussa told the website he was defending his 77-year-old father after the man “got out of line” with him.

Las Vegas police responded to the incident at 11:06 p.m., citing but not arresting El Moussa.

The victim reportedly refused medical attention.

El Moussa was in Las Vegas to deliver the keynote speech at Luxury by JCK, an annual high-end trade show held at the Venetian. He was accompanied by his wife Heather Rae Young and their parents and children.

El Moussa and Young co-host “The Flip Off,” a reality competition series, along with El Moussa’s ex-wife, Christina Haack. All are real estate agents and house flippers.

El Moussa and Haack also co-hosted the HGTV reality series “Flip or Flop” from 2013 to 2022 — even after they separated in May 2016 and divorced in 2018.

Citations for a misdemeanor in the state usually require the offender to pay a fine but don’t necessarily require a court appearance.