MGM Mirage merged with the Mandalay Resort Group in a US$7.9bn deal in 2004 (deal closed in 2005) and so the Bellagio is now owned by MGM Mirage & Mandalay Resort Group. In March 2000, it was announced that Mirage Resorts (including the Bellagio) has been sold to Kirk Kerkorian/MGM Grand for $4.4bn in cash. The resort’s design was inspired by the idyllic village of Bellagio which overlooks Italy’s magnificent Lake Como.

In late 1992, Steve Wynn bought the Dunes for $75m and then closed it down and demolished the majority of it to build the Bellagio.Ĭonstruction of the Bellagio started in 1995. The hotel/casino was built on the 122 acre site which used to host the Dunes Hotel Casino and Golf course at the corner of Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevards. In October 1998 the 36 storey, 3,026 room (including 270 suites), $1.6bn Bellagio opened. The hotel casino complex was developed by Steve Wynn (Mirage Resorts Inc), one of the pre-eminent Las Vegas casino entrepreneurs. The Bellagio is one of the premier resort hotel casinos in Las Vegas.

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