Gary Primm is a casino developer and former chairman, chief executive of Primm Valley Resorts & Primadonna Resorts Inc.

Gary Primm grew up in San Marino, California

San Marino, California

San Marino is a small, affluent city in Los Angeles County, California. Incorporated in 1913, the City founders designed the community to be uniquely residential, with expansive properties surrounded by beautiful gardens, wide streets, and well maintained parkways...

. His father, Ernest Jay Primm, was a well known developer of casinos in the early development days of Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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In the mid-1970s, a young Gary Primm developed the Primadonna Casino in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

. The city of Primm, Nevada is named after Gary Primm's father Ernest Primm who had bought the 400 acres at the state border for only 12,000 dollars in 1951. Gary Primm took over the family business in 1981, after the passing of his father.

New York New York

Gary Primm and his friend Kirk Kerkorian

Kirk Kerkorian

Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian is an American businessman who is the president/CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian is known as one of the important figures in shaping Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr...

 in 1997 also developed the New York, New York resort and casino, in Las Vegas.

Personal life

Gary is a genuine Big Game Hunter, with over 12 safari trips to Africa and in addition he is known as an avid car collector, owning the Bonnie and Clyde "Death Car" for many years on display in the lobby of the Primm Valley hotels.

Home

Gary Primm lived in Newport Beach on Linda Isle, Newport Beach, California

Linda Isle, Newport Beach, California

Linda Isle is a part of the Lower Bay of Newport Beach, California. In 1954, Linda Isle became the last to be incorporated into the city of Newport Beach, and it was in this period that the entire city, including the islands, began to change from a resort to a residential community...

, up to 1980 when he moved to Las Vegas full time. A home that Primm had built in Las Vegas, with a slew of security accommodations was once used by Michael Jackson, and in early 2010 was sold to a private buyer. The home was said to have been loaded with secret tunnels, bulletproof doors, and a panic room/indoor shooting range.

Gary is currently a resident of Corona Del Mar, in Newport Beach California.

Yacht

Gary Primm (known as just "Primm" to his friends) is also well known around Newport Beach and was involved in a dispute regarding his 145-foot power yacht the "Prima Donna". The $17 million dollar motor yacht is kept in Newport Beach and was for a period of time the subject of a dispute regarding the taxes the city felt it was due from the owner, Mr. Primm. The dispute was settled by the Orange County Tax Assesor's office which ruled that the yacht was not in the slip in Orange County enough days per year to warrant the collection of taxes.