Atlantic City Casino Diversity Evaporates With Nine Resorts Controlled By White Men

Atlantic City casinos are all currently governed past snowy men. That wasn’t the compositor's case just a distich of years ago.

Casino.org reported II years ago this calendar week that quatern of the niner casinos inwards Atlantic City were being course by women. The word followed Caesars Entertainment appointing Jacqueline Grace to lead up the Tropicana.

Grace was the secondly African American adult female to live named superior general manager of an Atlantic Ocean City gambling casino resort hotel after Melonie Johnson, who MGM Resorts elevated to prexy of Borgata in May 2020.

Now, some 24 months later, no more female person or nonage is the lead honcho of an Atlantic Ocean City casino.

Grace this calendar week exited the gaming manufacture to take a role at a New House of York holding management firm. President Andrew Johnson has returned to MGM National Harbor.

Terry Glebocki, formerly the CEO of Ocean Casino, announced her surrender inwards Oct 2021 after the resort’s ownership was reconfigured. Karie Marguerite Radclyffe Hall had been the GM and vice prexy of Bally’s since Mar 2019. She was permit go after Caesars sold the cassino in 2020.

Atlantic City Takes Step Backwards

The US gaming manufacture has predominantly been ladder past lily-white men since the firstly legal casino opened in Southern Nevada in 1940. Atlantic City had been at the forefront of changing that in viewing of 2017’s #MeToo movement.

The social motion bringing sexual abuse, harassment, rape, and other misconduct to scant(p) led to the ruination of I of the world’s biggest cassino tycoons. Though Steve Wynn maintains that he never acted unsuitably with distaff subordinates, numerous allegations against the billionaire led to his Feb 2018 surrender and subsequent divestature of his total stakes in his namesake Wynn Resorts.

Caesars proclaimed this hebdomad that Grace’s Tropicana replacement is gaming industry veteran soldier Joe Giunta, who has to a greater extent than 20 years of see inward Southern New Jersey. At Borgata, President Johnson was replaced past longtime MGM exec Travis Lunn.

The Bally’s Corporation — formerly Twin Falls River Worldwide Holdings until getting Bally’s Atlantic Ocean City and the cassino make from Caesars — now has Michael Monty as its chief executive inward Atlantic Ocean City. Glebocki’s pip at Ocean was filled past Bill Callahan.

Whites Control Industry

As for the other quintuplet Atlantic City casinos, they too are governed by white men. Uncle Tom Pohlman is superior general manager of the Golden Nugget, Gregg Calvin Klein heads Harrah’s, and Caesars is overseen past Joseph Lodise.

Hard John Rock late had an opportunity to charge a diverse leader to its Atlantic Ocean City cassino after Lupo in agreement(p) to head west to Las Vegas to superintend the company’s takeover of The Mirage. But Hard Rock instead promoted Susan Anthony Faranca to the role.

Finally, Resorts has for many years been ravel by Atlantic Ocean City mainstay St. Mark Giannantonio. In increase to running the Boardwalk property, which is the oldest cassino inward Atlantic City, Giannantonio leads the Casino Association of New Jersey.