After two years on and off the market, billionaire businessman Steve Wynn has unloaded his lavish Sin City mansion for $17.5 million. Though the sale price is far below the last ask of $24.5 million, it is several million more than the $13 million the 80-year-old former casino titan paid in March 2018 and ranks as the highest residential sale in Las Vegas to date this year.
Widely credited with bringing elite luxury to the Las Vegas Strip, Wynn resigned as CEO of Wynn Resorts in 2018, in the wake of numerous harassment and sexual misconduct accusations reported in The Wall Street Journal. Wynn denied the allegations. Nonetheless, as part of the resultant separation agreement with the company that he founded in 2002 and that still bears his name, he was evicted from the plush duplex villa at the Wynn Las Vegas, where he and his wife, Andrea Hissom, lived for about a decade. It was this turn of events that led Wynn and Hissom to seek new residential circumstances where they could shack up when in town.
Tucked into the prestigious guard-gated Country Club Hills development, about 12 miles west of The Strip, in the Summerlin planned community, the ochre-colored Mediterranean mansion was custom built in 2001 for, oddly enough, Wynn’s brother Kenny Wynn and his wife Dale, who sold up in 2009 for $5.675 million. The second owner remodeled the mansion before selling it to Wynn, who then spent a fortune to have it remodeled again.
Dubbed Museo by the avid contemporary art collector, whose vast collection includes works by Matisse and Picasso, the 15,000 square foot Mediterranean mansion sits behind huge iron gates on nearly 1.5 resort-worthy acres. There are six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, plus a trio of powder rooms, in about 15,000 square feet. If the interiors resemble the alternatively mannered and showy opulence of a five-star hotel, that’s probably because they were done up by Todd-Avery Lenahan, one of the hospitality industry’s leading designers…