^*In December 1967, six persons were indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on charges that they conspired to cheat card players at the Friars Club, a fraternal organization whose members include prominent show-business personalities. Three of those indicted were Maurice H. Friedman and T. Warner Richardson (who had interests in both the Frontier, before Hughes bought it, and the Silver Slipper), and John Rosselli. It was charged that card players at the club—including Tony Martin, Zeppo Marx, and Harry Karl, the shoe-store magnate and husband of the actress Debbie Reynolds—were cheated of some $400,000 in rigged gin-rummy games. A conspirator on the floor above the game room watched through peepholes in the ceiling and electronically signaled his colleagues in the game what cards the players were holding. Freidman, Richardson, Rosselli, and two others were convicted of the charges.