VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Celine Dion Helicoptered to and From Caesars Palace

Celine Dion has suffered enough misfortune. A rarified degenerative neurological disease, Stiff Person’s Syndrome, has stuff the Canadian superstar support into the spotlight, causation the cancelation of all musical activity in her foreseeable future.

It’s time to cut her a gap and, once and for all, pose to eternal rest a intend myth that has dour her legacy for 20 years.

In 2002, Dion and her later(a) husband, Rene Angelil, reinforced a $5 trillion place inwards Lake Las Vegas, a  secluded community inward Henderson, Nev.. It’s where Dion reportedly continues to unrecorded with their terzetto children, and it’s only 20 miles from Caesars Palace.

Did she really eggbeater support and forward from this nursing home to the roof of Caesars during the for the first time of her II Las Vegas residencies, from 2003 to 2007?

Such a diva-like go seemed sane at the time, considering that Dion’s first of all abidance was every chip the Las Vegas game-changer that its title, “A New Day,” suggested.

It was the first concert residence masterminded past a famous managing director (Franco Dragone, formerly of Cirque du Soleil).

It was housed inward a 4,000-seat theater, the Colosseum, made-to-order for Dion to the melody of $90 million.

And Dion’s initial three-year undertake promised to make up the singer a record-breaking $80K per show. Her contract was extended ii to a greater extent years after that, no more uncertainty for an still higher payday.

Jealous Much?

Las Vegas had never seen anything same it, and non everyone in Las Vegas was happy to assure it. Specifically, a closely knit aggroup of Strip headliners at the time, including Mad Anthony Wayne Sir Isaac Newton and Sheena Easton, worked tirelessly to dungeon their names above the $9.99 sideboard specials on their resort marquees.

These headliners, who met regularly for dinner party and scuttlebutt at a Ruth’s Chris chophouse in town, were reportedly to a lesser extent than thrilled with the thought of the top-selling distaff recording star of all time waltzing into town to claim such spoils without putting inward what they saw as the required work.

This lady is the like an extraterrestrial, landing place her spaceship here for a few years, sucking upwardly all the O and and so quick away,” a March 16, 2003, Newsweek story quoted a “big-name Vegas headliner” that it refused to name. “You’ll never insure her showing upwardly at other people’s openers and that sort of thing.

“She’s just now non Vegas.”

Such sentiment potential went on to feed in the rumors that Dion lip-synced parts of the present and that her ticket sales were subdued because ticket prices were too high. In reality, “A New Day” went on to receipts $385 gazillion past the ending of its five-year run, based on nearly 3 meg people paying an norm fine damage of $135. It remains the to the highest degree successful concert abidance of all time.

Near, Far, Wherever You Are

The same Newsweek clause was the seed of Dion’s mythical heli-commuting.

“Plans to convert by chopper were nixed after neighbors objected,” its author claimed inward an off-handed comment designed to cleverly mark upwardly this next patch of info: “Celine will  fly front — OK, there’s a wire or II mired — but inward forepart of the world’s largest LED test and in a higher place a half-acre stage.”

Despite the fact the Newsweek story stated that no more Celine-chartered choppers of all time flew, just the thought of diva Dion fast just to bring through 20 commuting miles took off much ilk the imaginary helicopters themselves.

It even out prompted questions from Larry Billie Jean King when Dion appeared on his CNN utter show, both on Nov. 7, 2004, and on Feb. 15, 2010. The later(a) host, who famously prided himself on not prepping for his interviews inward advance, was on the face of it unaware, both times, that the Celine flights weren’t a thing.

“I don’t know who started this thing,” Dion told Billie Jean King the number one time he asked. “It’s ne'er been an issuance for me to occupy — we live 30 transactions outside from here. We have got a chauffeur.”

At the time, Dion blamed “the press” and “the people inward the industry” for the rumor.

“They demand to render to encounter things to catch it still more — it’s spicy enough, they need to add together to a greater extent curry sometimes to the stuff. It’s non raging enough, you know. It’s nothing. It was just now a little something inwards a newspaper.”

Titanic Lie

Obviously, a celebrity disaffirmation doesn’t arise to the layer of myth-busting proof. But whether the flights actually occurred is soft enough to disprove past circumstantial evidence. “A New Day” consisted of 714 shows. That’s a add up of 1,428 supposed whirlybird flights.

Not a single photo has ever so surfaced, anyplace on legacy or societal media, of Dion embarkment or deplaning from Caesars’ rooftop helipad, or coming inward for a landing place at Lake Las Vegas inward look of neighbors who were supposedly ticked off past the flutter and would get had every ground to picture it.

But the existent call into question is whether plans for the flight of steps route were of all time actually floated past her neighbors, who then objected to them. Casino.org asked the Lake Las Vegas Master Association to point out on the matter. Unfortunately, but understandably, it refused because of its policy ne'er to in public place any of its residents out of respect for their privacy.

But we don’t even out demand their help. This myth collapses under the weighting of a bingle truth, confirmed for Casino.org  by a Caesars surety member, that no more ace on the face of it fazed fact-checking before …

Caesars Palace has never had a helipad.

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