During building, the hotel ran into problems after the Nevada Tax Commission learned that one of its investors had ties to the famous mob gangster Meyer Lansky.
The nightclub was part of the Riviera Hotel, which was the first high rise – at eleven stories tall – on The Strip. Elvis Presley was famously filmed in the audience, though he never performed there. Celebrities like the pianist Liberace and the heartthrob crooner Dean Martin performed onstage. The Clover Room was the most popular nightclub in Las Vegas in the 1950s.
