She sang and played piano in the casinos before she regulated them.
Wayne Newton nudged her over on a piano bench so the two could entertain high rollers together, and Dom DeLuise asked her over and over where the leader of her band was, because he didn’t see any men.
She talked her way into John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s honeymoon “bed-in for peace,” scoring a most improbable interview for a local Atlantic City radio station as a teenager.
And she pressed casino executives for details on exactly how much money they planned to invest in Atlantic City — and what their Plan B was if that wasn’t enough.
