A district court denied Steve Wynn and his legal team a chance for a jury trial in a long-running defamation lawsuit involving the former casino mogul, his attorneys said in oral arguments to the Nevada Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
Wynn sued Jorgen Nielsen for defamation in 2018, after Nielsen alleged in a Wall Street Journal article that the casino developer sexually harassed female employees for decades. Nielsen had worked as artistic director of the salons at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.
Wynn’s defamation lawsuit says Nielsen’s claims that Wynn chased a manager around the salon until she locked herself in the bathroom couldn’t be true, because Wynn is legally blind.
