Tabish and the two other men repeatedly invoked their constitutional right against self-incrimination. Murphy did not even take the stand, her lawyers saying that they were fighting her desire to testify.
John pantsuit, her honey-blond hair swept to one side as she laughed and chatted with her lawyers. Attorney Oscar Goodman said he was upset about the unfair rumor and innuendo that have surrounded Murphy. He met Murphy, an Orange County native, there in It was love and she soon moved in, the two told a reporter last year. He told the commission that traces of the drugs found when strands of his hair were tested must have gotten there because Murphy was using marijuana and cocaine in their home.
Murphy took the 5th Amendment in her appearance before gaming officials. Many of the events, Jack Binion alleged in a sworn declaration, occurred in the week before Ted Binion died. Among them:. Murphy and Tabish stayed together at a swank Beverly Hills hotel.
Binion died of massive doses of both the tranquilizer Xanax and heroin, a drug that he told authorities he had stopped using in the mids after a long addiction. But friends reject suggestions that Binion took his own life, or died by accident.
If Ted Binion was a drug user, he was a careful one, they said. It's the kind of ugliness that only certain people would ever find attractive -- and those are precisely the kinds of people who made Las Vegas so big.
Roller coasters and themed restaurants? You can go to Disney World for that. For what is about to transpire in a Las Vegas courtroom over the next few months, you can only come here. And, as painful as all of this may be for the family of the late Mr. Binion, it is destined to be -- no other way to say this -- good for business in Las Vegas. It will be a daily reminder to the outside world that Las Vegas may now be wearing respectable clothes and a friendly smile -- but it's still Las Vegas.
Open 24 hours. Ted Binion, 55, was found dead in his Las Vegas home on Sept. His girlfriend, Sandra Murphy, a former topless dancer whom Binion reportedly met at a strip club, called emergency personnel to the house. Binion, dressed only in an unbuttoned shirt and his underwear, appeared to have died of a drug overdose. He was a known longtime heroin user; heroin paraphernalia, and an empty bottle of a prescription sedative, were found near his body. Ted Binion ran the place until May of when his gaming license was suspended by the Nevada Gaming Commission because of Binion's drug use and reported ties to organized crime figures.
So when Binion was found dead in , many people were not surprised. The case originates in Las Vegas's genesis in the late s, when Irish-American mobster Benny Binion left Dallas just ahead of a murder allegation. Benny killed at least two men in Vegas, but was never convicted. Ted loved gambling and was adept at running the Horseshoe, where no bet was refused.
At 14 he was almost kidnapped and Benny's home had hidden corridors and a 'bomb-proof' barn. Ted inherited Benny's caution. His former wife Doris told the court Ted propped twin shotguns either side of the marital bed, 'one for each of us'. Everywhere in the mansion were guns. After his death, the house was ransacked, allegedly by Murphy and Tabish. Murphy went into hysterics when she 'found' Binion dead and was taken to hospital.
Yet 24 hours later she directed a videotape 'inventory' of the house, claiming Binion's family and lawyers had stripped it. Binion had fought Nevada's Gaming Board since when it removed his casino licence first for drugs, and later for consorting with 'undesirables' - mostly gangster Herbie 'Fat Herb' Blitzstein, who died of a bullet in the head in But, although Binion's sister took over his casino, half a dozen witnesses said he was optimistic and showed no suicidal tendencies.
They said Binion was suspicious of Murphy and Tabish, who were 'tighter than a cheap suit'. Before he died he phoned his lawyer Jim Brown and told him: 'Take Sandy out of the will if she doesn't kill me tonight.
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