Maurice Uchitel

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Maurice Uchitel (born September 6, 1911 near Odessa in the Russian Empire , today Ukraine , † April 28, 2000 in Las Vegas ) was a well-known American restaurant and nightclub owner in the 1950s and 1960s .

Life

The Jewish Uchitel family fled the Russian Empire in 1917 after their father was killed during the October Revolution that year. He came to New York City in the United States of America with his mother, two brothers and a sister .

Shortly after arriving, his sister died and his mother followed a few years later. This had repeatedly urged her sons to go to work and so Maurice took up a job as an errand boy at the age of seven, while his brothers had already found more lucrative jobs in the textile industry.

Maurice also moved there and was already producing uniform parts for his own account during the Second World War . In particular, the production of shoulder pads for women's uniforms, which he made popular even after the war, earned him the nickname “Shoulder Pad King” and was a wealthy man at the age of 30.

Maurice changed branches again and invested in hotels and restaurants; in particular, he acquired the Voisin restaurant and the El Morocco nightclub .

He became a partner in the Eden Roc Resort and Spa , a 349-room Miami hotel , in the 1950s when the hotel was in its prime.

Maurice continued to live in New York City, but now commuted regularly to Miami and Las Vegas . As a budding hotelier and nightclub owner, he was often seen at the side of famous personalities (musicians, actors, politicians) when they visited his premises. In the 1960s, he was a business partner with Alvin Ira Malnik in marketing the Scopitone music video machines in the United States.

In 1980 he moved entirely to Las Vegas and died there in 2000 at the Nathan Adelson Hospice .

family

In 1945 Maurice married the singer Patricia Pollack , but the marriage broke up in 1979. His son Bob Uchitel went to Alaska in the 1970s , where he - with little financial support from his father - entered the construction and transportation industry and was found dead in 1990 with a cocaine overdose has been.

Maurice Utchitel has two grandchildren: Neil and Rachel Uchitel . Rachel; also interim night club owner; is perhaps the best-known family member of a victim of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 . Her grief over the death of her fiancé and the resulting unstable way of life; 2010 Participation in the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew (season 3), relationship with professional golfer Tiger Woods ; made her a well-known but also controversial personality.

Because of this popularity, her grandfather, Maurice Uchitel, became known to the general public again.

literature

  • Gerald Posner: Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power — A Dispatch from the Beach ; Simon & Schuster; First edition (October 13, 2009), ISBN 978-1416576563

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arizona RepublicMonday, Sept. 11, 1967, Phoenix, Arizona
  2. ↑ Galveston Daily NewsMonday 11 September 1967, Galveston, Texas
  3. ↑ Morning Herald, September 12, 1967 TheTuesday, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
  4. ↑ Middlesboro Daily News Tuesday, Sep 12, 1967, Middlesboro, Kentucky
  5. ↑ a b rachel-uchitel-mob-princess (English)
  6. ↑ a b New York Times (English)
  7. ↑ Former El Morocco, Eden Roc owner Uchitel dies at 88 on www.lasvegassun.com (English)
  8. ↑ Bob Uchitel dies at 44 Covaine ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) on adn.com; Retrieved July 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adn.com
personal data
SURNAME Uchitel, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American restaurant and night club owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH near Odessa , Russian Empire , today Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2000
Place of death Las Vegas , USA