“The first time retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya saw Las Vegas, he was in a helicopter with the late billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.
De La Hoya, then 18 and living in East Los Angeles, had returned home after winning a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona to a flood of calls from agents, promoters and Kerkorian, the casino mogul and investor, who died in 2015. “This gentleman offered to fly me to Las Vegas,” De La Hoya recalled. “I’m like, ‘Sure, with the permission of my father.’ ”
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