Former Las Vegas casino and topless club investor Luke Brugnara is being sued over allegations he trashed a rental home in Las Vegas.
Brugnara nearly two years ago was sentenced in California to two and a half years in prison for tax evasion and poaching steelhead trout, an endangered species.
Before that, during the 2000s, he announced several potential casino and topless club deals in Las Vegas that never got off the ground.
He had purchased the Silver City casino on the Strip but was denied a gaming license because of past legal troubles. He then revealed plans to buy the Crazy Horse Too topless club, but that didn’t pan out, either.
Later, he tried but was unsuccessful in buying the stalled Fontainebleau casino-resort development.
Now, the San Francisco businessman is being sued by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas.
The insurer charged in a lawsuit filed last week that it’s owed $100,053 for damage to one of its policyholder’s rental homes that had been rented to Brugnara for six months between January and June 2009.
The home is at 2230 Jamaica Court, near Sahara Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard.
In June 2009, State Farm charged in its lawsuit that “it was discovered that Brugnara — in only approximately six months of renting the residence — had caused extensive damage to the home, including failing to maintain the lawn and plants, damaging the interior, damaging the exterior, damaging furniture and appliances and other damages.”
A request for comment was placed with an attorney for Brugnara. According to State Farm’s suit, Brugnara is believed to still be incarcerated.