![]() One of the earliest sightings emailed to me was of Leach and one of his blondes du jour having chicken wings and champagne at a Hooter’s-like establishment on the Strip. I arrived in Las Vegas in the fall of 1999 and didn’t get off to a good start with the long-time host of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” Rock stars, financiers, beauty queens and casino owners,” he said.Ī Las Vegas celebration of life is tentatively planned for September 27 at The Venetian, Boychuck said. “That sounds like something he would do,” said Boychuck, now 58. If memory serves, they were to be held in his homeland of England, New York and Las Vegas. I mentioned to Boychuck that Leach had told me over lunch, more than a decade ago, that he had just made arrangements to have three celebrations-of-life in three separate cities when he died. Best experience of my life, knowing him.” ![]() I had so many amazing dining experience because of Robin. “No matter what restaurants we went to, chefs tried to outdo his last dinner. Going out on the town with Leach was a five-star experience. When went took it to George Maloof, he said ‘sure, let’s do it.’” Everything was how can you make it bigger or better. ![]() Robin didn’t see things in a small way.” He said, “You have to see things in the biggest way. The technicians should do the pedicure in lingerie. I have a friend in the Chippendales and he will be your butler.” “You have to serve Cristal,” Leach insisted. He said, ‘What’s the most expensive thing you offer?” While Boychuck thought about it, Leach said, “How much is a pedicure? You should have a $2,000 pedicure-–the most expensive pedicure in the world. “He always said, ‘You’ve got to do this, or that.’ One night we were having dinner at N9NE Steakhouse. Leach went out of his way to help Boychuck market his salons, either verbally or through his celebrity column at AOL.com, the Las Vegas Sun or the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he moved to in 2016. But the best thing was, I don’t care where you were, it became an exciting place because you were with Robin.” Some of our best ones were at Alize at the Palms, with that great view. “We did about 17 birthdays together and 17 New Year’s Eves. When I didn’t hear back, I thought he was just having a great time. “This was three or four days before his stroke. ![]() I called him and said if something came up and he didn’t go, he was welcome to join us. The Boychucks had dinner with Leach at Nobu at Caesars Palace shortly before Thanksgiving. His expressions were priceless: a wink, a nod, a smile.” It’s funny, the last time we saw him, Karen asked him if he would like a massage and he nodded. “But you could still communicate with him. Leach “was looking way better,” said Boychuck, but still unable to talk. Just a couple weeks ago he was getting ready to go home." “We had visited him quite a few times (at a Las Vegas rehab center). It was awful news: Leach had died from a second stroke, nine months after the first one in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He was jolted awake at 5:30 a.m. Friday by a call from a New York number. The last one, a year ago, at STK Steakhouse at The Cosmopolitan, “was just four of us,” said Boychuck. The double birthday party had shrunk over the years. Known for its luxury suites and villas, the resort is a celebrity hideaway. And off they went to the 300-acre private island located two miles off the coast of Antigua. This doesn’t happen to a kid who grew up in a small town in the coal country of Pennsylvania, “I told Karen, ‘I don’t think he wants another guy there.” Leach had invited them to his home in Jumby Bay in the West Indies.īoychuck, taken aback, hesitated. One day Rader came home with exciting news. But the real introduction to the “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” came a couple weeks later.
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