Editing Bugsy Siegel (section)

====Opening====
The Flamingo opened on December 26, 1946, despite being unfinished.{{sfnp|Griffin|2006|pp=9–10}} Local people attended the opening, and some celebrities present included George Raft, [[June Haver]], [[Vivian Blaine]], [[Sonny Tufts]], [[Brian Donlevy]], and [[Charles Coburn]]. They were welcomed by construction noise and a lobby draped with drop cloths. When word made its way to Siegel during the evening that the casino was losing money, he became irate and verbally abusive and threw out at least one family.{{sfnp|Griffin|2006|p=10}} 

After two weeks, the Flamingo's gaming tables were $275,000 in the red and the casino briefly shut down.{{sfnp|Wilkerson|2000|pp=99–104}} Siegel continued construction and hired [[Hank Greenspun]] as a publicist. The Flamingo reopened on March 1, 1947,{{sfnp|Wilkerson|2000|p=106}} and began turning a profit.<ref name="Siegel and the Flamingo">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Burbank|first=Jeff|title=Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo Hotel |date=October 18, 2010 |encyclopedia=The Online Nevada Encyclopedia |publisher=Nevada Humanities |url=http://www.onlinenevada.org/bugsy_siegel_and_the_flamingo_hotel |access-date=December 16, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130322123335/http://www.onlinenevada.org/bugsy_siegel_and_the_flamingo_hotel |archive-date=March 22, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Ed|last1=Koch|first2=Mary |last2=Manning |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/15/mob-ties/ |access-date=November 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230183419/http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/15/mob-ties/ |archive-date=December 30, 2012 |url-status=live|title=Mob Ties|date=May 15, 2008 |work=[[Las Vegas Sun]]}}</ref> However, by this point mob bosses had lost their patience for Siegel.<ref name="First 100 Persons..." />