Posted on 16/05/08
Barkley pressured to repay gambling debt
Las Vegas -- Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes $400,000 (all currency U.S.) to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised yesterday to repay the gambling debt after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges. "My mistake," Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am golf tournament in Hoover, Ala. "I'm not broke, and I'm going to take care of it." In a civil complaint filed Wednesday in a Nevada state court and reported by the Las Vegas Sun, the Wynn Las Vegas resort said Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, received last Oct. 18 and 19. Barkley, however, said the debt stems from losing bets on the 2008 Super Bowl.
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