A ritzy NYC townhouse that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott used as a love nest was being leveraged by Mafia goons and NBA stars to run illegal rigged poker games, according to the feds.<\/p>\n
The townhouse \u2013 80 Washington Place, in Greenwich Village \u2013 was one of two main Manhattan locations where high-stakes poker games were allegedly held by four of the city\u2019s most powerful crime families, and victims were swindled out of millions.<\/p>\n
A high-end NYC townhouse where Kylie Jenner once lived with Travis Scott was a hotspot for illegal poker scams ran by a network of mafiosos and NBA stars. Donna Dotan<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s also where Jenner lived with Scott around 2021 while she was pregnant with their second child, with the couple soon relocated to the west coast.<\/p>\n
The famous couple were renting the townhouse, and it was even featured in a 2023 episode of \u201cThe Kardashians\u201d \u2013 the same year mobsters were allegedly using the home to host one of their main poker games.<\/p>\n
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott were not mentioned in the federal indictment that brought more than 30 people into custody. Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards<\/p>\n
Jenner and Scott were not mentioned in the extensive federal indictment brought against more than 30 people allegedly involved in the scheme, and there is no indication they had any knowledge of it or involvement.<\/p>\n
The six-story home \u2014 located just steps from Washington Square Park on one of the city\u2019s most desirable blocks \u2013 was on and off the market for over a decade beginning in 2012, and finally sold in 2024 for around $20 million.<\/p>\n
The apartment was one of the two main Manhattan locations where rigged high-stakes poker games were allegedly ran. US Attorney \/ EDNY<\/p>\n
The home was on and off the market for over a decade beginning in 2012, and finally sold in 2024 for around $20 million.<\/p>\n
It was there \u2014 along with a Kips Bay address \u2014 that the criminals allegedly used former NBA stars to lure high-rollers into high-stakes poker games, which used hidden technology like rigged shufflers and X-ray tables to cheat the targets out of millions.<\/p>\n
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The scheme began in at least 2019, and was exposed by in an indictment from the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Thursday.<\/p>\n
But was also at 80 Washington Place where a rift began to grow between the criminals operating the scam in the fall 2023, when rival mobsters hosted a competing game on the same night as the Lexington Avenue game.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t go over well with the Mafiosos \u2013 with a band of wise guys allegedly storming 80 Washington Ave. with guns and other weapons to stop the game, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
That incident ended in a vicious brawl on the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ritzy NYC townhouse that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott used as a love nest was being leveraged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10759,6239,57,9,56,63,65,64,10664,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-14491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-kylie-jenner","9":"tag-mafia","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-poker","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}