Charles Barkley owes $400,000
Posted by Media Outrage on May 15, 2008
Via AP:
Retired NBA star Charles Barkley will face criminal charges if he doesn’t repay a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino, a prosecutor said Thursday.
“We’re in the process of sending Mr. Barkley notice that we’re considering filing a criminal complaint,” Clark County District Attorney David Roger said. “He’ll have an opportunity like anybody else to make restitution to the hotel.”
The posh Wynn Las Vegas casino alleges in a civil complaint filed Wednesday in Nevada state court that Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, he received last Oct. 18 and 19.
“To date, and despite repeated demands, Barkley has refused to repay the $400,000,” the complaint said.
Barkley estimated during a May 2006 interview with ESPN that he’d gambled away about $10 million over the years.
“Do I have a gambling problem? Yeah, I do have a gambling problem,” Barkley said. “But I don’t consider it a problem because I can afford to gamble.”
He said he never bet on basketball, and only bet in casinos. He called it a bad habit that he intended to continue.
Mediaoutrage- $400,000 shouldn’t be a problem for Barkley to pay being that he earns a nice paycheck from TNT.
May 15, 2008 at 7:58 pm
This country negro needs to step his gambling game up!
May 15, 2008 at 8:09 pm
May 15, 2008 at 8:10 pm
whoops, i meant to quote this
Do I have a gambling problem? Yeah, I do have a gambling problem,” Barkley said. “But I don’t consider it a problem because I can afford to gamble
May 15, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Who says that? Like for real. This dude is off the chain.
May 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm
what???? what a retard, who says that?? ok Mr. I Can Afford to Gamble, why do you owe $400k IDIOT
May 15, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Birds of a feather flock together….Michael Jordan. Barkley just don’t want to give up that loot. He knows he owes those folk. Pay up.
May 15, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I was thinking the same thing MO. His round head is on TNT talking nonsense on the regular, that money gotta be going somewhere better than the casino.
May 16, 2008 at 1:14 am
He does have a greasy ass head…..watching NBA games you need sunglasses cause his dome is fuckin blinding!
May 31, 2008 at 2:48 am
he paid that damn bill though.