02-25-2010, 05:18 PM
it sounds as though he's being evicted /foreclosed.
Moving vans seen at Wayne Newton’s Las Vegas home
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 | 11:06 a.m.
Moving vans accompanied authorities to the home of Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton this morning.
Metro Police said they weren't commenting on the case and didn't expect to release details.
It wasn't clear why authorities or the moving vans were at the property, which is near Pecos and Sunset roads. Financial problems have dogged Newton in recent years, especially since he lost a 2006 lawsuit filed by former Newton pilot Monty Ward over past-due wages.
Ward eventually obtained a judgment against Newton for $455,250 and has been garnishing the wages of Newton ever since.
On Feb. 9, a lawsuit was filed in Clark County District in Las Vegas by Bruton Smith, chairman and chief executive of Speedway Motorsports Inc., against Newton, his wife (he's married?
), Kathleen McCrone Newton, Newton company Desert Eagle LLC and a Newton Living Trust dated Dec. 19, 2001.
The suit charges Newton is delinquent on a $3.35 million loan and seeking to foreclose on Newton’s Casa de Shenandoah ranch in Las Vegas.
In one lawsuit, Newton was accused of failing to pay $32,384 for hay delivered to his Las Vegas ranch, presumably for consumption by his horses at the ranch.
In the other suit, he was accused of owing GMAC $36,999 for a lease on a Cadillac. The Cadillac suit was dropped, but the lawsuit over the hay remains pending in Clark County District Court, with Newton and his attorneys having filed no response in court to the allegations.
Most recently, officials at a Detroit-area airport in Waterford, Mich., said Newton owes the airport more than $60,000 after abandoning a $2 million plane there more than three years ago and leaving it to gather mold.
Moving vans seen at Wayne Newton’s Las Vegas home
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 | 11:06 a.m.
Moving vans accompanied authorities to the home of Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton this morning.
Metro Police said they weren't commenting on the case and didn't expect to release details.
It wasn't clear why authorities or the moving vans were at the property, which is near Pecos and Sunset roads. Financial problems have dogged Newton in recent years, especially since he lost a 2006 lawsuit filed by former Newton pilot Monty Ward over past-due wages.
Ward eventually obtained a judgment against Newton for $455,250 and has been garnishing the wages of Newton ever since.
On Feb. 9, a lawsuit was filed in Clark County District in Las Vegas by Bruton Smith, chairman and chief executive of Speedway Motorsports Inc., against Newton, his wife (he's married?
), Kathleen McCrone Newton, Newton company Desert Eagle LLC and a Newton Living Trust dated Dec. 19, 2001.The suit charges Newton is delinquent on a $3.35 million loan and seeking to foreclose on Newton’s Casa de Shenandoah ranch in Las Vegas.
In one lawsuit, Newton was accused of failing to pay $32,384 for hay delivered to his Las Vegas ranch, presumably for consumption by his horses at the ranch.
In the other suit, he was accused of owing GMAC $36,999 for a lease on a Cadillac. The Cadillac suit was dropped, but the lawsuit over the hay remains pending in Clark County District Court, with Newton and his attorneys having filed no response in court to the allegations.
Most recently, officials at a Detroit-area airport in Waterford, Mich., said Newton owes the airport more than $60,000 after abandoning a $2 million plane there more than three years ago and leaving it to gather mold.