Bruno Mars has been an artist in residence at the Park MGM in Las Vegas for almost nine years now, having signed on with the casino in 2016 and recently booking 12 upcoming shows throughout 2024. That’s a long time for a performer at Mars’s level of fame to stay booked for a Vegas residency. On the one hand, you could assume that the Mars/MGM partnership has gone on for so long because it is a mutually beneficial and highly profitable relationship.
Orrr… if you’re a dozen lazy media outlets that don’t enjoy performing a modicum of fact-checking, Bruno has remained in servitude to MGM because he has racked up $50 million worth of gambling debt to the casino that keeps him performing there against his will forever!
Spoiler alert: No,…