Gary Primm is an American casino developer. He is the former chairman and chief executive of Primm Valley Resorts.

Biography

Primm grew up in

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. His father, Ernest Jay Primm, was an early developer of casinos. The town of

Primm, Nevada Primm (formerly known as State Line) is an unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, primarily notable for its position straddling Interstate 15 at the Nevada–California border. It sits on Ivanpah Dry Lake, which extends to ...

is named after the Primmadonna casino, located there and developed by Gary's father, Ernest Primm. At the time, the city at the southern end of the California-Nevada border was known variously as "State Line" and "Stateline", creating confusion with the similarly named city near Lake Tahoe. The state naming authority considered "Primmadonna" as a new place name, ultimately settling on "Primm." Primm developed the Primadonna Casino in

in the mid-1970s. He took over the family business in 1981, after the passing of his father. Primm and his friend

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developed the

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in 1997. As of 2019, Primm was an owner of a cannabis company, Deep Roots Medical, operating in Nevada.

Yacht

Primm was involved in a tax dispute regarding his 145-foot power yacht, the ''Prima Donna'', which is kept in

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. The dispute was settled by the Orange County Tax Assessor's office, which ruled that the yacht was not in the slip at Newport Beach enough days per year to warrant the collection of taxes.

References

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