Former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn faced a rare civil.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. A judge just tossed out the Justice Departments bid to force Trump donor and casino mogul Steve Wynn to register as a foreign agent.

Wynn responded by saying the interview was 28 years old and that he only made that statement to get a laugh. However, Francis's attorney's showed jurors another side of Wynn, a sit-down interview from the 1980s in which Wynn told a CBS News TV reporter that he would 'choke' her if she didn't include certain information from the interview. Jones I was going to kill anybody,' Wynn testified. Wynn denied telling Jones he wanted to kill Francis. The second statement occurred outside the same courtroom.įrancis maintained that the threat was real and said music mogul Quincy Jones told him that Wynn wanted Francis dead in an email. Wynn maintains that one of Francis' allegedly defamatory statements was made in Los Angeles Superior Court during a hearing concerning a $2 million gambling debt Francis allegedly ran up at one of Wynn's Las Vegas casinos.

Wynn said Francis' claims defamed him by making that statement twice on April 12, 2010. Wynn, the 70-year-old Las Vegas titan, sued the 'Girls Gone Wild' founder over his claims that Wynn threatened to have him killed and buried in the desert.