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An affair with a 20-year old actress, ensuing blackmail and $100million lost in the casinos thats how NBCUniversals Ron Meyer ended his $25million a year job and the details are almost beyond belief.<\/p>\n
The 75-year old media and entertainment executive was known as the biggest craps player ever to casino insiders, described by one as being in the top three most sought-after whales.<\/p>\n
News of his $multi-million gambling habit emerged after he stepped down from his NBC Vice Chair role last month, citing an affair with a actress 47 years his junior.<\/p>\n
Meyer claimed he was facing extortion threats from an unnamed woman, the accusations believed to involve the English actress, Charlotte Kirk.<\/p>\n
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It was the emergence Meyers incredible gambling habits, however, that made the headlines this week, tales of losing more than $7million in a single night emerging.<\/p>\n
A Daily Mail source claims Meyer would blow between $5million and $7million at Caesars. Once he exhausted his credit line there, the VP would take him to Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut where he would blow $3-5million as well at each place.'<\/p>\n
The California-born former talent agent was also reputed to be in the hole for several million dollars' to mobsters during the 80s and 90s, according to Powerhouse: The Inside Story of CAA author James Miller.<\/p>\n
Miller claimed that Meyer narrowly avoided serious violence keeping 'both legs operative, genitalia intact' - by borrowing $millions from movie producer Ray Stark.<\/p>\n
The anonymous casino insider who emerged recently told reporters: <\/p>\n
That involved VIP stays in penthouse suites, with a helicopter and luxury limousine on hand to transfer him between casinos and hotels, and $million+ lines of credit.<\/p>\n
Meyer also had to sell his $125million Malibu home, his 2018 divorce revealing that his wife knew nothing of the massive gambling habit.<\/p>\n
'In the divorce settlement his wife asked for a forensic accounting, because she thought he was hiding the money. But he wasn't hiding the money, he just blew it,' reported the Mail.<\/p>\n
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