How Kirk Kerkorian overcame powerful enemies, became a billionaire, and still waited in line at his own hotels. John L. Smith Published Jun. 16 2015 10:56PM EDT ...

UNLV School of Medicine representatives say Kerkorian created tens of thousands of jobs in his nearly six decades of work in the community, spanning a stake in the Dunes Hotel in 1955 to building ...

The new medical school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is being named for the late billionaire businessman, investor and MGM Resorts founder Kirk Kerkorian, campus and company officials ...

Kirk Kerkorian is shown at the Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match in this May 5, 2007, file photo at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file) More ...

The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History . ... the International Hotel, opened in 1969; the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, ...

Now, almost three years after his death in 2015 at age 98, William C. Rempel's "The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History" chronicles ...

Tracinda Corp., the holding company founded by the late Kirk Kerkorian, has unveiled production company Survival Pictures with the Christian Bale-Oscar Isaac drama “The Promise” as its first ...

Kirk Kerkorian, who helped make the Las Vegas Strip one of the world's most popular destinations by investing in and building hotels, including three that each claimed the title of world's largest ...

It was in the closing months of 1968 that Kirk Kerkorian announced his plans to build the International Hotel on Paradise Road. A 1,500-room hotel would be larger and more luxurious than anything ...

Though Kirk Kerkorian made billions of dollars in Hollywood and Las Vegas, more people will mourn his death in faraway Armenia than in the United States. Kerkorian, who died in Beverly Hills on ...

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who built Las Vegas’ biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler and bought and sold the MGM studio at a profit three times, has ...

Kirk Kerkorian, who has died aged 98, ... a giant Roman-themed casino and hotel complex which paid him $2 million a year rent until the hotel’s owners bought him out at a handsome profit in 1968.