First look at Margaritaville Casino

May 30th, 2007

WLOX News has the first look at the Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi with three artists renderings.

Check them out here.

Warren Buffett and Jimmy aren’t related afterall

May 28th, 2007

It turns out that Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett aren’t related afterall. Fortune magazine has an article on the issue: “The Buffett mystery”

About two months ago Warren and Jimmy submitted DNA to 23andMe (an ancestry firm started by Google founder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki.)

When the results came back a month later, Wojcicki – a 33-year-old Yale grad and former health-care industry analyst – and her associate Joanna Mountain called Warren from 23andMe’s offices, just half a mile from Google’s Mountain View, Calif., campus, and broke the news that he need not include Jimmy in his will. In fact, “I’m as closely related to you as Jimmy is,” said Mountain, the head of 23andMe’s ancestry product line and a former professor of anthropological genetics at Stanford.

As it turns out, Jimmy and Warren do have common ancestors, but you have to go back more than 10,000 years to find them. That’s before surnames, folks. “Bottom line: We’re not related,” Warren wrote to his sister Doris, the family genealogist, who opened this whole can of worms many years ago.

Read the entire article here.

Tagged in In The News, Personal/Family

Buffett wins rights to several domain names

May 23rd, 2007

PR-Inside.com has an article on Buffett winning rights to domain names that are associated with him.

The National Arbitration Forum recently issued decisions on three separate domain name disputes filed by Disney, Jimmy Buffett and Angels Baseball.

On February 22, 2007, Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC, controlled by popular singer Jimmy Buffett, submitted a complaint electronically with the National Arbitration Forum asserting legal rights to the domain names BuffettUniversity.com, JBuffett.com, JimmyBuffettUniversity.com and UniversityOfBuffett.com.

Margaritaville Casino coming to Biloxi

May 15th, 2007

Jimmy Buffett and Harrah’s Entertainment announced on Tuesday plans for Margaritaville Casino & Resort on the shores of Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Margaritaville project is expected to cost more than $700 million, representing the single largest investment in Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina, Harrah’s announced in a statement.

“I have always considered myself a “Gulf Coast kid,” Buffet said in a statement released by Harrah’s. “I was born there, grew up there and jumped on a stage for the first time there, before hitting the road. I have seen the world, traveled to distant shores, written a few songs and lived a few tall tales along the way, and now it is good to be coming back home.“

Margaritaville Casino & Resort will be developed on 46 acres of land south of U.S. 90 in Biloxi on the site formerly occupied by Grand Casino and Casino Magic. With a projected development start date of summer 2007, the Margaritaville Casino & Resort should be completed by spring 2010.

Buffett to attend Harrah’s press conference

May 14th, 2007

The Sun Herald reports that Jimmy Buffett will attend a press conference held by Harrah’s Entertainment for the announcement of a beachfront casino in Biloxi.

Harrah’s Entertainment will announce plans for a casino on the beach in Biloxi tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffet will join Harrah’s CEO Gary Loveman and Vice Chairman Charles Atwood, a Pascagoula native, at the press conference at Grand Biloxi Casino.

Tagged in Business Empire, In The News