{"id":954,"date":"2023-07-18T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T06:13:16","slug":"featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED \u2014 VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Lefty Rosenthal Hired the Strip\u2019s First Female Dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Innholdsfortegnelse<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers\/#No_Because_its_a_Myth\" title=\"No, Because it\u2019s a Myth\">No, Because it\u2019s a Myth<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers\/#One_Thing_Lefty_Did_Right\" title=\"One Thing Lefty Did Right\">One Thing Lefty Did Right<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers\/#So_How_Did_this_Myth_Get_Started\" title=\"So How Did this Myth Get Started?\">So How Did this Myth Get Started?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Sure, Frank \u201cLefty\u201d Rosenthal secretly ran the Stardust, Fremont, Marina, and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago branch of the mafia from 1974 to 1978. That\u2019s without even possessing a gaming license, ensuring the syndicate a \u201cskim\u201d of at least $1.6 million \u2014 and probably many times more.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, in the \u201950s, he bought contracts to fix sporting events, earning multiple sports-bribery indictments. And sure, he was a suspect in multiple business and car bombings in Miami in the \u201960s, which is allegedly why he fled to Las Vegas in 1968 in the first place.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280749\" data-style=\"width: 1118px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-280749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lefty-ap-858x585.jpg\" alt=\"Frank &quot;Lefty&quot; Rosenthal\" width=\"1118\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lefty-ap-858x585.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lefty-ap-430x293.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/lefty-ap.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Frank Rosenthal testifies in front of a Sept. 8, 1961 Senate Investigations Subcommittee about match-fixing. Some mafia experts claim he earned his nickname that day, by invoking his fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination 37 times \u2014 including when asked if he was left-handed. (Image: <em>Associated Press<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Frank \u201cLefty\u201d Rosenthal was also the very first operator of a Las Vegas Strip resort to hire female dealers for table games, which makes him a champion for women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>And that makes up for at least some of the bad stuff in his legacy, right?<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280751\" data-style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-280751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rosenthal-spilotro-pinterest-858x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rosenthal-spilotro-pinterest-858x676.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rosenthal-spilotro-pinterest-430x339.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rosenthal-spilotro-pinterest.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Rosenthal with his good buddy and boss, Anthony Spilotro. By the time \u201cTony the Ant\u201d died in 1986, the high-ranking member of the Chicago outfit was suspected by the FBI of being involved in 22-25 murders. (Image: Pinterest)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_Because_its_a_Myth\"><\/span>No, Because it\u2019s a Myth<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Women dealt cards in downtown Las Vegas from at least 1943 \u2014 the date of the first known job ad seeking them \u2014 through 1958. That\u2019s the year their growing presence made male dealers fear for their job security. They organized, met with the all-male Las Vegas city government, and succeeded in getting an ordinance passed banning all women from card-dealing positions. That ban lasted 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hotel-casino industry, like the majority of US businesses at the time, divided job opportunities by sex and race,\u201d \u00a0Joanne Goodwin, a UNLV professor emerita of history and founding director of the Women\u2019s Research Institute of Nevada, told <em>Casino.org.<\/em> \u201cDespite the ban, some women continued to deal outside city limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>Those women dealt primarily in the cities of North Las Vegas and Henderson, though, because the Strip, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-myths-busted-the-las-vegas-strip-is-in-the-city-of-las-vegas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has never been part of the city of Las Vegas<\/a>, was a boy\u2019s club until August 1970. That\u2019s when Jean Brady became its very first card dealer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281192\" data-style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-281192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jean-brady-858x806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jean-brady-858x806.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jean-brady-430x404.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/jean-brady.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Jean Brady, the first female blackjack dealer on the Las Vegas Strip, appears on a 1970 episode of the TV quiz show \u201cTo Tell The Truth.\u201d (Image: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brady, 47, was hired by casino manager Jack Piper to deal blackjack at the Silver Slipper, which was never a property controlled by Frank Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not fighting for any rights for women,\u201d Brady told the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> in a story published on Aug. 13, 1970. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to take the best job opportunity available to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Strip wasn\u2019t a very progressive place back then. Only a month before Brady\u2019s hire, State Labor Commissioner Stanley Jones had to order the Desert Inn to stop discriminating against female dealers who were applying for jobs there.<\/p>\n<p>It was this ruling that prompted the Slipper to promote Brady, who had been working as a slot machine cashier.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280763\" data-style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-280763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mugshot-for-exclusion-thegoodgamblingguide-dot-com-858x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mugshot-for-exclusion-thegoodgamblingguide-dot-com-858x777.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mugshot-for-exclusion-thegoodgamblingguide-dot-com-430x389.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mugshot-for-exclusion-thegoodgamblingguide-dot-com.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Rosenthal is photographed following his March 19, 1971 Vegas arrest for illegal gambling. (Image: thegoodgamblingguide.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"One_Thing_Lefty_Did_Right\"><\/span>One Thing Lefty Did Right<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Rosenthal was the first to bring sports betting to a US casino, the Stardust, in 1976. For this, he deserves recognition.<\/p>\n<p>As far as his being a key figure in the struggle for equal opportunity in employment, he most certainly hired female dealers in his casinos. But he was following a trend, not setting or bucking one. The sole barrier he broke was hiring the Strip\u2019s first baccarat dealer, Shirley Brancucci, about five years after Brady\u2019s hire \u2014 and even that accomplishment isn\u2019t so ironclad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Sachs, who was then running the Stardust prior to its purchase by Argent, appears to have had more to do with her hiring than Rosenthal did,\u201d Michael Green, a history professor at UNLV, told <em>Casino.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not aware of any rights barriers broken by Frank Rosenthal,\u201d Goodwin added.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"So_How_Did_this_Myth_Get_Started\"><\/span>So How Did this Myth Get Started?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi\u2019s 1995 book, \u201cCasino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas,\u201d states that Rosenthal was \u201cthe first to allow women blackjack dealers on the Strip.\u201d This \u201cfact\u201d was also repeated on Rosenthal\u2019s official website, frankleftyrosenthal.com, for which Pileggi wrote the bio.<\/p>\n<p>Since nearly every other subject of Pileggi\u2019s book was dead, Rosenthal served as its main source of information. This book was also the basis for Martin Scorsese\u2019s Academy Award-nominated movie, <em>Casino, <\/em>whose screenplay was cowritten by Pileggi and Scorsese.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281126\" data-style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-281126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rothstein-858x705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rothstein-858x705.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rothstein-430x353.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rothstein.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Robert De Niro stars as Sam \u201cAce\u201d Rothstein in the 1995 film, <em>Casino.<\/em> (Image: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the 1995 film, Robert De Niro stars as Sam \u201cAce\u201d Rothstein, a reasonable, likable, and highly fictional version of Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAs one of the last ones left standing, Lefty was able to influence media portrayals of him,\u201d Green said, \u201cso it was understandable that Ace Rothstein would look a bit better on the screen than Lefty Rosenthal did in real life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal enjoyed a longer and happier life than most other people in his line of work. Despite a 1982 attempt to hasten the eventuality with a car bomb in the parking lot of a Las Vegas Tony Roma\u2019s, he didn\u2019t die until 2008 \u2014 of a heart attack at age 79 in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until after his death that <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> columnist Jane Ann Morrison disclosed a bombshell secret about Rosenthal that he had been hiding since at least his departure from Las Vegas 26 years earlier\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Frank \u201cLefty\u201d Rosenthal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/news-columns\/jane-ann-morrison\/lefty-rosenthal-was-an-fbi-snitch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was an FBI informant.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had this secret gotten out earlier, Rosenthal would probably have ended up just another silenced footnote in Las Vegas history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look for \u201cVegas Myths Busted\u201d every Monday at <\/strong><em><b>Casino.org.\u00a0<\/b><\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s=%22Vegas+Myths+Busted%22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read previously busted Vegas myths. Got a suggestion for a Vegas myth that needs busting? Email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:corey@casino.org\">corey@casino.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-las-vegas-first-female-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\">FEATURED \u2014 VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Lefty Rosenthal Hired the Strip\u2019s First Female Dealers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, Frank \u201cLefty\u201d Rosenthal secretly ran the Stardust, Fremont, Marina, and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago branch of the mafia from 1974 to 1978. That\u2019s without even possessing a gaming license, ensuring the syndicate a \u201cskim\u201d of at least $1.6 million \u2014 and probably many times more. Sure, in the \u201950s, he <a href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/featured-vegas-myths-busted-lefty-rosenthal-hired-the-strips-first-female-dealers\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}