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TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob’s withdrawal from Vegas.
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That title is something else.
“Sinatra then asked for credit, which was denied. It culminated when Sinatra reportedly drove a golf cart through the window of the coffee shop where casino manager Carl Cohen was seated and began “screaming obscenities and anti-Semitic remarks” at Cohen.
Sinatra reportedly punched Cohen, a heavily built man, who responded with a smack in the mouth, bloodying Sinatra’s nose and knocking two of his teeth out.”
The title suggests that Hughes punched Sinatra.
The mafia didn’t leave Vegas until the mid 1980s if they ever left.