Rod Stewart loses at Las Vegas

Rod Stewart has lost his 3 year long legal battle against the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, and has been ordered to pay up to the tune of nearly £1.7 million. Mr Stewart has been involved in a court dispute with the Rio Hotel after they took him to court for failing to repay an advance. The dispute started when Rod Stewart cancelled a Millennium New Year’s Eve gig because he was not fully recovered from throat surgery he had a few months earlier. But in what appears to have proved to be a failed gamble, Stewart elected to hold on the advance paid to him by the Rio hotel. This obviously didn’t sit too well with the Las vegas casino, who demanded repayment, in which Mr Stewart was not forthcoming. The Rio then decided to pursue the matter through the courts, and now that decision appears to have been vindicated. The federal judge ruled in the casinos favour, ordering Mr Stewart to pay £1.7 million to the casino, along with 150,000 in legal fines to the court.