Elaine Wynn, the ex-wife of casino mogul Steve Wynn, is accused of launching a smear campaign that led to his exit from the company in February 2018

The Las Vegas casino and real estate magnate resigned after he was accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women

Wynn Resorts is now trying to clear his name in papers filed Friday

The company included the testimony of Steve Wynn's friend Renee Palleggi

She alleged a Wynn Las Vegas employee called her and asked her to make rape allegation against the mogul and offered a six-figure sum in exchange

'Elaine would be willing to pay me a six-figure amount if I would say that Steve raped me,' she said in a July affidavit

She also alleged that the employee said Elaine gave two Wall Street Journal reports a list of 150 employees to contact about his sexual misconduct

Elaine and WSJ refute that allegation

Elaine Wynn, the ex-wife of casino mogul Steve Wynn, has been accused of launching a smear campaign against him and offering women a six-figure sum to accuse him of rape, which culminated in his ousting from the company last year.

Las Vegas casino and real estate magnate Steve Wynn, 77, left his company Wynn Resorts in February 2018 after he was accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women.

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But the company is now trying to clear his name in court paper filed Friday, alleging that Elaine, who divorced Steve in 2009 and is the largest individual shareholder in Wynn Reports, paid off women to make the sexual assault allegations against him.

She then allegedly gave the names of 150 women to reporters investigating those claims, according to Bloomberg.

Steve Wynn has denied the sexual misconduct allegations and blamed the scandal on Elaine.

Elaine Wynn, the ex-wife of casino mogul Steve Wynn, has been accused of launching a smear campaign against him and offering female employees a six-figure sum to accuse him of rape, which culminated in his ousting from the company last year

Las Vegas casino and real estate magnate Steve Wynn, 77, left his company Wynn Resorts in February 2018 after he was accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women.

The court papers allege that Jorgen Nielsen, a former hairdresser with Wynn Las Vegas and confidante of Elaine, worked with her to plot the sexual assault scandal.

The claim is based off a July affidavit by Renee Palleggi who said Nielsen called her in December 2017 and asked her to make the rape claim against Steve Wynn, offering a six-figure sum if she complied.

'I informed Jorgen that the accusations could not be true. I have known Steve for many years and never witnessed any inappropriate behavior from him,' Palleggi, who identifies as a friend of Wynn, said according to the affidavit as per the New York Post.

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'Jorgen told me that I should say that Steve raped me and that I gave birth to my son as a result.

'Jorgen suggested that Elaine would be willing to pay me a six-figure amount if I would say that Steve raped me. He said there was a "huge" amount of money at stake and that I needed to be on the "winning team" and not the "wynning team."'

The Wall Street Journal published the explosive report on Steve Wynn's alleged sexual misconduct in January 2018 that led to his exit from the company.

In her testimony, Palleggi says Nielsen said he was with Elaine Wynn at the Kennedy Center in Washington and saw her give two Wall Street Journal reports a list of 150 women to contact about accusations of Steve Wynn's misconduct.

The court papers allege that Jorgen Nielsen, a former hairdresser with Wynn Las Vegas and confidante of Elaine, worked with her to plot the sexual assault scandal

Jorgen Nielsen

'Elaine is having the WSJ reporter contact everybody,' Palleggi said citing Nielsen.

However, Elaine Wynn declined to speak with the newspaper for that newspaper article. She maintains that reporters reached out to the 150 current and former employees and she did not hand over a contact list.

'Ms. Wynn never engaged with reporters from the Wall Street Journal,' she said in a statement.

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Furthermore the Wall Street Journal disputed Palleggi's account calling it 'inaccurate'.

With the Friday filing Wynn Resorts seeks to dismiss an invasion of privacy lawsuit that Nielsen launched against the company last month in Nevada County Court claiming Wynn Resorts spied on him in retaliation for talking to WSJ about Steve Wynn's alleged sexual harassment.

Nielsen's lawsuit is against Wynn Resorts, its CEO Matthew Maddox and two other Wynn executives who are no longer with the company. Steve Wynn filed a defamation suit against Nielsen in April 2018 for that WSJ article.

Steve and Elaine Wynn married in 1963 and divorced in 1963. They remarried in 1991 and divorced again in 2010

In the Friday filing Wynn Resorts said Nielsen was never harmed by the company in any way. While swatting Nielsen's claims, the company attached Palleggi's testimony.

The affidavit says that Palleggi has known Nielsen since their days working together at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in 2000.

The allegations are likely to raise the tension between Wynn Resorts and Elaine, who holds an 8% stake in the company.

She has had fraught relationship with the company since she lost her seat on the Las Vegas-based company's board of directors in 2015, according to Bloomberg. Her ex-husband Steve Wynn was chairman and CEO at the time. The two fought over her right to vote and sell her shares.

After Steve Wynn left in 2019, Elaine got control of her shares in a settlement.

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Following the 2018 scandal Wynn has paid tens of millions in fines to gaming regulators in Nevada and Massachusetts to settle allegations that the company didn't react fast enough to address employee complaints,. Since then, the company added female directors to its board an removed the Wynn name from its latest resort in Boston.