Howard Hughes, once a dashing aviation and film tycoon, descended into reclusive, germophobic isolation in 1966 when he secretly took over the top floor of Las Vegas’s Desert Inn—then ended up buying the whole hotel when management tried to evict him. Over four years, he transformed Vegas
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