Jay Leno dismissed tabloid speculation that he has a massive gambling debt to the mob following a series of increasingly bizarre injuries that he suffered in recent years.
In November, Leno was spotted in public with severe bruising to his face and an eye patch after an incident where he fell down while descending a 60-foot hill outside a Hampton Inn hotel in Pennsylvania. Leno also suffered a broken wrist and a lost fingernail following that accident.
Two years earlier, Leon suffered significant burns to his face after a gas fire, which he blamed on an attempt to declog a fuel line on his 1907 White Steam Car in his garage. Leno had to undergo skin grafting procedures to tend to his face, chest, and hand burns.
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