Monday, June 29, 2009 | 3:24 p.m.
Dr. Stanley Lowenbraun, a once-successful Louisville cancer doctor who fell into financial ruin because of a gambling addiction, was found dead in a hotel room at a Las Vegas casino on June 20, the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal reports. The coroner’s office said Lowenbraun, 66, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Lowenbraun, whose oncology practice once grossed $7 million a year, the newspaper reported, declared bankruptcy in 1999 after gambling away $8 million at casinos and racetracks, including $400,000 he lost in 1998 at the hotel where he was found dead.
Louisville lawyers have said they believed his $13 million bankruptcy case was the largest ever in Louisville triggered by gambling problems. Lowenbraun took as many as 40 gambling junkets a year and lost as much as $100,000 on a single roll at craps, according to bankruptcy documents.
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