The Bellagio claims that Barrie, 42, received $1.5 million US in credit from the casino in May 2008, but says he has repaid only $420,000 of the debt. Supreme Court by Bellagio, LLC, which says Barrie owes $2,221,166. Len Barrie, who also briefly owned the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning, is named in a lawsuit filed in B.C.
A former National Hockey league player and developer of a failed Vancouver Island real estate project is being sued by a major Las Vegas casino for an alleged debt of more than $2 million, CBC News has learned.