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A high roller who wants to find out who allegedly spiked his drink<\/a> in an MGM Grand VIP room has just raised the stakes, The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

\"Dwight
Billboard posters have appeared around Las Vegas offering $1 million to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the alleged drink spiker, above. (Image: LVRJ<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

California real estate investor and sports agent Dwight Manley has doubled the reward to $1 million for anyone who has information that can shed light on the perpetrator\u2019s identity. He\u2019s also splashed out on a billboard campaign in Las Vegas to publicize the fact.<\/p>\n

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Manley, who was Dennis Rodman\u2019s agent in the 1990s, claims his drink was spiked with ketamine<\/a> in December 2021 while he was a guest at the exclusive\u00a0MGM Mansion. A longtime VIP client of MGM Resorts, he had been invited by casino management who laid on a private jet for him and his entourage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But a purportedly drugged drink caused him to drop $2 million in casino markers playing blackjack, a lawsuit filed against the MGM Grand in November 2022 alleges.<\/p>\n

Loss of Control<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to that lawsuit, on December 10 at around 1:45 p.m., Manley ordered an \u201cold fashioned\u201d cocktail that he said tasted \u201cbitter.\u201d He finished the drink, nevertheless, and ordered a second. At this point, he began to feel disorientated, per the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

At around 4 p.m., Manley broke a glass ashtray, cutting his hand, which bled onto the gaming table. The casino staff moved him to a new table but didn’t offer any medical assistance other than some Band-Aids, the suit asserts.<\/p>\n

But they did offer him a line of credit up to $3.5 million — a line of credit he claims he wasn’t fit to sign off on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At around 5:15 p.m., Manley\u2019s friends took him back to his villa, where he passed out. The next day, he described feeling that he had been drugged. When he returned to California Manley saw a doctor, who concluded \u201cto a reasonable degree of medical probability, that Dwight Manley was poisoned with ketamine in the early afternoon of Dec. 10, 2021, at the MGM Grand Mansion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Unjust Enrichment\u2019 <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ketamine is a dissociative, psychotropic\u00a0anesthetic commonly used in veterinary medicine that also doubles as a party drug. It can cause short-term memory loss, incapacitation, and hallucinations.<\/p>\n

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Manley\u2019s lawsuit accuses MGM of negligence, unfair or deceptive trade practices, unjust enrichment, and breach of implied covenant. The lawsuit seeks declarative relief and unspecified damages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The billboards around Las Vegas direct anyone who knows anything about the incident to a new website for Manley\u2019s campaign, 1millionreward.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny tip is worth looking at,\u201d Manley said in a news release Tuesday. \u201cSomeone knows who did this and we want to keep it from happening again. I could have died.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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