Moguls, mobsters, and stars had numerous opportunities to encounter each other. There were the racetracks, like Santa Anita. There were the mobster-run gambling ships, where stars often performed and moguls lost huge bankrolls. Meyer Lansky says the ships “offered America’s entertainers their most remunerative live venues.”130 And after the ships were shut down, the entire operation simply moved inland to Las Vegas, where there was even more money to be made.