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Caligula's Palace is physically, for the most part, based on the real Las Vegas casino [[wp:Caesars Palace|Caesars Palace]]. Certain details are taken from other casinos, like the waterworks from the [[wp:Bellagio (hotel and casino)|Bellagio]] (both being Italy-inspired, although Bellagio was not built until 1998 and Caesars Palace has an impressive water show of its own) or luminant green windows from the [[wp:MGM Grand Las Vegas|MGM Grand]]. MGM Grand was also once the world's largest hotel, when it first opened in 1993. | Caligula's Palace is physically, for the most part, based on the real Las Vegas casino [[wp:Caesars Palace|Caesars Palace]]. Certain details are taken from other casinos, like the waterworks from the [[wp:Bellagio (hotel and casino)|Bellagio]] (both being Italy-inspired, although Bellagio was not built until 1998 and Caesars Palace has an impressive water show of its own) or luminant green windows from the [[wp:MGM Grand Las Vegas|MGM Grand]]. MGM Grand was also once the world's largest hotel, when it first opened in 1993. | ||
As for its mafia management, the mafia had been mostly ran out of Las Vegas in the 1980s by the FBI, but the scenario might be based on a rumor that current casino billionaire [[wp:Steve Wynn | As for its mafia management, the mafia had been mostly ran out of Las Vegas in the 1980s by the FBI, but the scenario might be based on a rumor that current casino billionaire [[wp:Steve Wynn|Steve Wynn]] may have been [http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.electricnevada.com/pages96/wynn.htm connected] with the [[wp:Genovese crime family|Genovese crime family]] around 1985, all the way up to then-don [[wp:Anthony Salerno|Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno]]. The decision by the three Liberty City Families to have Ken Rosenberg operate the casino is also likely to be based on [[wp:Frank Rosenthal|Frank Rosenthal]]'s role operating Las Vegas casino on behalf of the Chicago Outfit during the 1960s and 1970s; Rosenthal and, presumably, Rosenberg are Jewish Americans. | ||
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