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Harrah was married seven times to six women, including a four-month marriage to the singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry in 1969; the sugar baby relationship was alluded to in Gentry's fictionalized account of her life, "Fancy," in which a "benevolent man" (Harrah) takes in an impoverished Southern prostitute (Gentry).
- University of California, Los Angeles (did not graduate)
- June 30, 1978 (aged 66), Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
- William Fisk Harrah, September 2, 1911, South Pasadena, California, U.S.
- Hailey Cemetery, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.
4. Juli 2012 · Harrah, the widow of the late casino magnate Bill Harrah, died Friday at the age of 68. Born in Nampa, Idaho, she met Bill Harrah while she was working as a real estate agent in Reno. The...
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Every Light Was On is the story of Bill Harrah and his clubs as remembered by twenty former employees and two women who were married to him. Harrah’s rise in the world of gaming began in 1946 when he went deeply into debt to become the sole owner and operator of a casino that he named Harrah’s Reno Club. He soon ventured out by building ...
20. Sept. 2000 · Harrah, one of the longest tenured of the late gambling magnate’s six wives, died Sunday in Reno of breast cancer, said Gary Nelson, an attorney for her son, Tony Harrah.
Scherry Harrah, second wife of famed casino pioneer Bill Harrah, had the longest marital tenure of Harrah’s six wives (21 years) and according to her 2000 obituary in the LA Times, she had considerable involvement in the finishing and outfitting of Harrah’s Reno and Tahoe properties.
2. Juli 1978 · RENO, July 1 (UPI)—William F. Harrah, who built a multimillion‐dollar gambling empire by never forgetting the slot machine players, died yesterday after surgery at St. Mary's Hospital in...
Verna Rae Harrah (née Harrison; July 25, 1944 – June 29, 2012) was an American film producer. She was the widow of William F. Harrah , the hotel and casino magnate. [1] She contributed to many charities and philanthropic causes.