Gary Primm is a casino developer. He is the former chairman and chief executive of

Primm Valley Resorts Primm Valley Casino Resorts (formerly known as Primadonna Casino Resorts) is a group of three hotel-casinos in Primm, Nevada, along Interstate 15 in Nevada, Interstate 15 at the California state line. They are owned and operated by Affinity Gaming. ...

Biography

Primm grew up in

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. His father, Ernest Jay Primm, was an early developer of casinos. The town of

Primm, Nevada Primm (formerly known as State Line) is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, United States, primarily notable for its position straddling Interstate 15 where it crosses the state border between California and Nevada. It sits on I ...

is named after the Primmadonna casino, located there and developed by Gary's father, Ernest Primm. At the time, the city at the southern end of the California-Nevada border was known variously as "State Line" and "Stateline", creating confusion with the similarly named city near Lake Tahoe. The state naming authority considered "Primmadonna" as a new place name, ultimately settling on "Primm." Primm developed the

Primadonna Casino Primm Valley Resort & Casino (formerly Primadonna Resort & Casino) is a hotel and casino located in Primm, Nevada. It is one of the Primm Valley Resorts, owned and operated by Affinity Gaming. It is named after the Primm family, benefactors of th ...

in the mid-1970s. He took over the family business in 1981, after the passing of his father. Primm and his friend

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developed the

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in 1997. As of 2019, Primm was an owner of a cannabis company, Deep Roots Medical, operating in Nevada.

Yacht

Primm was involved in a tax dispute regarding his 145-foot power yacht, the ''Prima Donna'', which is kept in

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. The dispute was settled by the

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Tax Assessor's office, which ruled that the yacht was not in the slip at Newport Beach enough days per year to warrant the collection of taxes.

References

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