Steve Wynn, who plans to open a casino in Everett, paid a $7.5 million settlement to a manicurist who claimed Wynn pressured her to have sex against her will and also sexually harassed other employees, according to The Wall Street Journal. Wynn denies wrongdoing but declined to get into specifics; the revelation's effect on the planned $2 billion-plus casino north of Boston is unclear.
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