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A Woman Who Accused Former Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Of Rape Was Found To Have Defamed Him

Ashe Schow
A Woman Who Accused Former Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Of Rape Was Found To Have Defamed Him
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Two years ago, a woman named Halina Kuta told Las Vegas police that casino mogul Steve Wynn raped her in the early 1970s and that she was the real mother of Wynn’s daughter, whom she claimed to have birthed in a gas station restroom.

Despite the implausibility of Kuta’s allegations – she also claimed to have been a model for Pablo Picasso’s painting “Le Reve,” which was painted more than 10 years before Kuta was born – the media ran with the allegations against Wynn because of the #MeToo movement’s hysteria over powerful men getting accused of sexual misconduct. Wynn sued Kuta for defamation and has now won.

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