- Singer Rudy Vallee operated a speakeasy on the subterranean level of the future Copacabana during the 1920s.
- The Copacabana was finished with mob money supplied by infamous gangster Frank Costello of the Luciano crime family. Costello eventually gained full control of the club, through his front man, Jules Podell.
- In 1958, Monte Proser produced Jayne Mansfield's striptease revue, "The Tropicana Holiday", at the Tropicana Las Vegas, which co-starred her husband, Mickey Hargitay.
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