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Cellphone Text Messages Reveal Details about Ed Scheetz

October 16, 2007 at 2:56 PM | 0 Comments

Things do not look good for former Morgans Hotel Group CEO Ed Scheetz, whose girlfriend was found dead in his Las Vegas condo nearly two months ago.

The NY Post reports that the cellphone belonging to Michelle Lynn Hatchel was recovered and on it were text messages she sent to friends about how unhappy and scared she was with Scheetz, who she had only recently met.

"I can't believe how much coke he does, all the time, all day long," Hatchel wrote, adding, "He keeps leaving me to talk to a girl he dated."

Hatchel does not identify the man in the message, which was sent to a friend named Gina at 11:56 the night before she died.

In a message sent a few minutes earlier, at 10:36 to a friend named "Miko," Hatchel wrote: "Things are really bad. Ed has been so mean to me."

The girl he dated could be the "angry ex-girlfriend" that was reported by ABC News.

Meanwhile, Scheetz who is supposedly in the middle of a divorce and reportedly has three kids, was probably forced to step down not just because a girl showed up dead in his bed but because the incident would have severely impacted the Morgans application for a gaming license at The Hard Rock Hotel.

Turns out the gaming board doesn't look fondly on hoteliers with drug and women problems. And with MHG opening up both a Mondrian and a Delano in Las Vegas by 2010, there is no room for mistakes.

Yet there must be someone who's very good at damage control inside MHG. Scheetz resigned on Sept. 20th, a full week before Hatchel's death was reported (nearly a month after she died) and according to the LV Business Press the application for a gaming license shouldn't be slowed down at all. Just business as usual in Vegas.

[Photo: Vegas Magazine]

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