Steve Wynn's second act in Las Vegas is in front of you: Wynn Las Vegas opened in April 2005, after he sold the Bellagio to MGM Mirage in 2000 for $6.4 billion. He bought the Desert Inn site, demolished it, and spent $2.7 billion building what he intended to be the finest resort hotel in the world. The artificial mountain visible from the Strip — an impossible geological formation rising 150 feet from flat desert — was Wynn's solution to the problem of creating privacy and drama simultaneously.
Wynn Las Vegas was the first Las Vegas resort to receive Forbes Five Star ratings for both its hotel and its spa, and it has maintained those ratings continuously since opening. Wynn's perfectionism extended to every detail: the thread count of the sheets, the arrangement of the flowers in the lobby, the curvature of the pool deck. He was, in the truest sense, a luxury hotel operator who happened to have a casino in his building rather than a casino operator who happened to have a hotel.
Steve Wynn resigned from his company in February 2018 following a Wall Street Journal investigation into decades of sexual misconduct allegations. The company he built was renamed Wynn Resorts but his hotels retained his name — the most prominent reminder of a career that transformed Las Vegas twice and ended in disgrace, in a city where the only consistent rule has always been that the game goes on.