Former casino magnate Steve Wynn has agreed to an undisclosed settlement with Los Angeles-based attorney Lisa Bloom, thereby ending Wynn’s federal defamation lawsuit against Bloom after she accused Wynn of sexual harassment in a 2018 press release.
According to court filings, Bloom retracted her previous claims from the release, in which she said that she was representing a female dancer from the Wynn Las Vegas casino who accused Wynn of leering at dancers when they were rehearsing “revealing” show numbers and instructing them to strip “down to bras and panties” when he was in attendance.
The settlement amount was redacted from court documents, but Bloom and her attorneys did say that they wanted to “correct the record and state that there has been no evidence obtained that Steve Wynn made inappropriate instructions to dancers, nor that he knew about any inappropriate instructions.”
U.S. District Judge James Mahan, who previously denied Bloom’s request for dismissal before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals referred the case back to him in 2021, approved the agreement and subsequently dismissed the case.
Bloom has yet to comment on the recent settlement. Conversely, Wynn said in a statement that he was pleased to have the case “fully settled, including with a retraction.”
Wynn had originally sought no less than $75,000 in damages in 2018–the suit began mere months after the casino mogul had resigned as CEO of Wynn Resorts and sold off his company equity.
This recent victory is only one of the multiple ongoing legal battles for Wynn, as the Nevada Supreme Court recently ruled that Wynn could still be subject to discipline from state gaming regulators regarding further allegations of sexual misconduct, even though he is no longer affiliated with the gaming industry.
Additionally, Wynn is currently involved in a separate defamation suit against The Associated Press and one of their reporters stemming from a story involving police accounts from two women who also accused Wynn of sexual harassment.
