What Really Happened To Wayne Newton

What Really Happened To Wayne Newton Somewhere in a Las Vegas FBI field office in 1980, an agent slid a piece of paper across a table toward one of the most famous entertainers in America. On it were five names. Four of the men on that list were already dead. The fifth was Wayne Newton. That's the part of this story nobody talks about. Most people know the name, the sequined shirts, the song with the German title that a generation only knows because of a parade scene in Ferris Bueller. But behind the biggest smile in Las Vegas was a man who spent four decades dodging mob allegations, fighting a bitter war with the most powerful figure in late-night television, and watching a fortune that should have lasted a lifetime get swallowed by a legal system, a government agency, and thirty-nine acres of real estate that became one of the stranger disasters in entertainment history. This is what actually happened to Wayne Newton.