VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Celine Dion Helicoptered to and From Caesars Palace
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Celine Dion has suffered enough misfortune. a rarefied degenerative neurological disease, Stiff Person’s Syndrome, has stuff the Canadian River superstar backrest into the spotlight, causation the cancellation of all musical activity inward her foreseeable future.
It’s clip to gash her a break, and formerly and for all, put to ease a signify myth that has persistent her legacy for 20 years.
In 2002, Dion and her later(a) husband, Rene Angelil, built a $5 billion rest home in Lake Las Vegas, a secluded community inward Henderson, Nev. It’s where Dion reportedly continues to unrecorded with their threesome children, and it’s only when 20 miles from Caesars Palace.
Did she really whirlybird plump for and forward from this place to the roof of Caesars during the firstly of her 2 Las Vegas residencies, from 2003 to 2007?
Such a diva-like move seemed sane at the time, considering that Dion’s first of all abidance was every flake the Las Vegas game-changer that its title, “A New Day,” suggested.
It was the number 1 concert residence masterminded by a famous theater director (Franco Dragone, formerly of Cirque du Soleil).
It was housed inward a 4,000-seat theater, the Colosseum, custom-built for Dion to the melody of $90 million.
And Dion’s initial three-year contract bridge promised to pay the singer a record-breaking $80K per show. Her contract was extended 2 to a greater extent years after that, no dubiety for an even higher payday.
Jealous Much?
Las Vegas had ne'er seen anything similar it, and not everyone inwards Las Vegas was well-chosen to ensure it. Specifically, a closely knit aggroup of Strip headliners at the time, including Wayne Isaac Newton and Sheena Easton, worked tirelessly to keep their names in a higher place the $9.99 counter specials on their resort hotel marquees.
These headliners, who met on a regular basis for dinner and rumormonger at a Ruth’s Chris chophouse inward town, were reportedly less than thrilled with the thought of the top-selling distaff recording principal of all time waltzing into townspeople to exact such spoils without putting inward what they saw as the required work.
This lady is like an extraterrestrial, landing her spaceship hither for a few years, suction upwardly all the atomic number 8 and then quick away,” a Mar 16, 2003, Newsweek story quoted a “big-name Vegas headliner” that it refused to name. “You’ll ne'er regard her showing upward at other people’s openers and that sort of thing.
“She’s just not Vegas.”
Such sentiment likely went on to give the rumors that Dion lip-synced parts of the show and that her fine sales were soft because ticket prices were too high. In reality, “A New Day” went on to 144 $385 meg past the terminal of its five-year run, based on nearly 3 gazillion people paying an fair just the ticket damage of $135. It remains the to the highest degree successful concert residence of all time.
Near, Far, Wherever You Are
The same Newsweek clause was the seed of Dion’s mythical heli-commuting.
“Plans to convert past chopper were nixed after neighbors objected,” its author claimed in an off-handed input intentional to cleverly go under upwardly this next patch of info: “Celine will vanish — OK, there’s a cable or deuce involved — but inwards forepart of the world’s largest LED sort and above a half-acre stage.”
Despite the fact the Newsweek story stated that no Celine-chartered choppers of all time flew, just the thought of diva Dion quick just now to economise 20 commuting miles took off much ilk the imaginary helicopters themselves.
It fifty-fifty prompted questions from Larry Martin Luther King Jr. when Dion appeared on his CNN talk of the town show, both on Nov. 7, 2004, and on Feb. 15, 2010. The late host, who famously prided himself on not prepping for his interviews inwards advance, was ostensibly unaware, both times, that the Celine flights weren’t a thing.
“I don’t know who started this thing,” Dion told King the number 1 clip he asked. “It’s ne'er been an go forth for me to take — we live 30 proceedings off from here. We hold a chauffeur.”
At the time, Dion blamed “the press” and “the people inward the industry” for the rumor.
“They demand to try to bump things to get it yet to a greater extent — it’s spicy enough, they want to add together more curry sometimes to the stuff. It’s non spicy enough, you know. It’s nothing. It was just now a little something inwards a newspaper.”
Titanic Lie
Obviously, a celebrity disaffirmation doesn’t rear to the pull down of myth-busting proof. But whether the flights occurred is light plenty to disprove by circumstantial evidence. “A New Day” consisted of 714 shows. That’s a summate of 1,428 supposed eggbeater flights.
Not a bingle photo has ever surfaced, anywhere on legacy or societal media, of Dion embarkment or deplaning from Caesars’ rooftop helipad, or coming in for a landing place at Lake Las Vegas in look of neighbors who were supposedly ticked sour by the perturbation and would feature had every conclude to shoot it.
But the existent interrogative sentence is whether plans for the flight path were ever actually floated by her neighbors, who and then objected to them. Casino.org asked the Lake Las Vegas Master Association to point out on the matter. Unfortunately, but understandably, it refused because of its insurance policy ne'er to publically distinguish any of its residents come out of regard for their privacy.
But we don’t yet demand their help. This myth collapses under the weightiness of a single truth, confirmed for Casino.org by a Caesars certificate member, that no ace ostensibly bothered fact-checking before …
Caesars Palace has ne'er had a helipad.
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