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TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.

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