{"id":74992,"date":"2015-06-16T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74992"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:40:21","slug":"billionaire-casino-mogul-kerkorian-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74992","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire, casino mogul, Kerkorian passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kerkorianphoto2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74995\" alt=\"kerkorianphoto2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kerkorianphoto2.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>LAS VEGAS (AP) &#8211; Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who built Las Vegas&#8217; biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler and bought and sold MGM at a profit three times, has died. He was 98.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MGM Resorts International says Kerkorian died Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He built the 30-story, 1,568-room International Hotel, the world&#8217;s largest hotel when it opened in the late 1960s.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When Kerkorian opened the first MGM Grand in Las Vegas in the 1970s, it was again the world&#8217;s largest resort hotel, containing more than 2,000 rooms. Years later, he would build another MGM Grand, this one with more than 5,000 rooms &#8211; and again, the world&#8217;s largest.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kerkorian also bought and sold the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio three times, each time realizing a profit. He also invested heavily in the auto industry and tried unsuccessfully to take over Chrysler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 LAS VEGAS (AP) &#8211; Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who built Las Vegas&#8217; biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler and bought and sold MGM at a profit three times, has died. He was 98. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MGM Resorts International says Kerkorian died Monday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74999,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions\/74999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}