Kirk Kerkorian Remembered by Former MGM Exec Chris McGurk: “He Loved Movies” Kerkorian, the billionaire who owned MGM three times, remade Las Vegas and died June 15 at 98, was, says the former ...

Kirk Kerkorian is shown at the Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match in this May 5, 2007, file photo at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file) More ...

In the history of Las Vegas, Kirk Kerkorian's name will be mentioned alongside Bugsy Siegel, Howard Hughes and Steve Wynn as key visionaries who helped shape the nation's gambling mecca and ...

LAS VEGAS -- Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who built Las Vegas' biggest hotels, tried to take over Chrysler and bought and sold MGM at a profit three times, has died. He was ...