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CONFIRMED: Usher Married Girlfriend in Las Vegas Following Super Bowl Halftime Show
UPDATE: Usher’s wedding to girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea, immediately following his halftime performance at Super Bowl LVIII, was confirmed by the singer's producer Bryan-Michael Cox, who announced, “Congrats to the newlyweds in the building!” as the couple entered a dinner party held at Aria’s...
Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl Ratings Boost
Sunday night’s Super Bowl is projected to set a record viewership of more than 120 million people, according to initial estimates by multiple news outlets. The official number will be announced by ratings agency Nielsen on Tuesday. That means that Super Bowl...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Hoover Dam Was Ever Officially Named Boulder Dam
On Sept. 30, 1930, when construction began on the dam at Black Canyon, 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur ordered that it be called Hoover Dam, after America’s 31st president. By an act of Congress...
Super Bowl $1M Bet Has Chiefs Fans Fearing ‘Drake Curse’
A $1.15 million bet on the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII has worried Chiefs fans heading into Sunday’s big game. It's not that the bet is astronomically large, but that it was placed by...
Las Vegas Strat Transforms into Giant Tequila Bottle for Super Bowl
On Thursday night, the Strat joined the bandwagon of Las Vegas casino resorts transforming their facades into lucrative product ads to gain exposure from media outlets covering the Super Bowl. And why not? After all, the Luxor is a giant Dorito. The...
Floyd Mayweather Drops More than $1M on Super Bowl Suite
Floyd “Money” Mayweather lived up to his nickname recently, shelling out $1.13M on a Super Bowl suite. The retired boxer bragged about it on Instagram, where he posted a copy of his receipt. Mayweather, 46, was among the highest-paid athletes during his...
Prince Harry Shocks NFL Players by Appearing at Super Bowl Honors
Prince Harry made a surprise appearance on Thursday night at the annual NFL Honors event, held at Resorts World Las Vegas, leaving players starstruck. “All you guys do on and off the field is truly remarkable,” the 39-year-old royal told the crowd....
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Lefty Rosenthal, Who Inspired De Niro’s ‘Casino’ Character, Hired the Strip’s First Female Dealers
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on July 17, 2023. Sure, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal secretly ran the Stardust, Fremont, Marina, and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the...
DJ Tiesto Pulls Out of Super Bowl, Replacement Announced
Just three days before Super Bowl LVIII, one of its key promised performers, DJ Tiesto, pulled out because of what he described on social media as “a personal family emergency." “Me and my team have been preparing something truly special for months,...
Where the Super Bowl Winners Will Party in Las Vegas
The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs have each chosen a Las Vegas site for their victory parties. TMZ has learned, because they always know everything, that the 49ers’ victory party will be at Omnia Nightclub at Caesars Palace, while the...
