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MGM Resorts' founder and largest shareholder Kirk Kerkorian, left, and then-MGM chairman and chief executive officer Terry Lanni are shown in this May 30, 2000, file photo. Lanni died in July, 2011, at 68. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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