Keep Memory Alive celebrates 22nd annual gala in Las Vegas
Planet Hollywood resident headliner Pitbull, left, with Camille and Larry Ruvo on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Planet Hollywood resident headliner Pitbull, left, with Camille and Larry Ruvo on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Planet Hollywood resident headliner Pitbull on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Planet Hollywood resident headliner Pitbull, left, prepares to walk the purple carpet with Larry and Camille Ruvo at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Planet Hollywood resident headliner Pitbull, left, and Larry Ruvo on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Luxor resident comedian Carrot Top talks to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
The cast of BAZ - A Musical Mash-up pose on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer and his wife Nicole Taffer on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer talks to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil talks to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes on the purple carpet 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Singer-songwriter Matt Goss on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Songwriter and vocalist Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, left, and singer-songwriter Matt Goss on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Songwriter and vocalist Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Star DJ Steve Aoki on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Ruby Lewis of the upcoming show "Marilyn! The New Musical" at Paris Las Vegas talks to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John Katsilometes on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Ruby Lewis of the upcoming show "Marilyn! The New Musical" at Paris Las Vegas on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Actress and author Marcia Gay Harden on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Anne Martinez of BAZ- A Musical Mash-up on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Singer-songwriter Chadwick Johnson on the purple carpet at the 22nd annual Power of Love gala in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, April 28, 2018. The event benefits the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
About 1,600 of the city’s movers and shakers partied at the Keep Memory Alive Power of Love gala inside a lavishly appointed MGM Grand Garden on Saturday night.
And we’re not just speaking of the Raiderettes.
But the Oakland — and soon to be Las Vegas — Raiders’ famous dance team did perform Saturday night during the 22nd annual fete, which raises operating funds for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
The event started in 1992 with a dinner at Spago at Forum Shops at Caesars honoring Lou Ruvo, father of longtime Las Vegas hospitality exec Larry Ruvo. Lou Ruvo had died that year of Alzheimer’s disease.
Led by a $5,000 donation from John Paul DeJoria, founder of Paul Mitchell hair products, the night raised $35,000. That was the seed money for what is now the downtown Las Vegas clinic named for the elder Ruvo.
“Look how far we’ve come,” Larry Ruvo said from the stage, gazing across a sea of well-heeled attendees. “We are expanding programs, expanding our reach.”
Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the Ruvo Center’s executive adviser and one of its longest-standing executives, said, “I met Larry at a half-built facility and sealed the deal in the parking lot. We’ve now had 27,000 patient visits last year, 70 clinical trials, and humanity’s best hope against diseases of an aging brain.”
Pop superstar Michael Buble was the night’s featured entertainment, and the live and silent auctions were expected to raise several million dollars.
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