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The Blackstone Group has partnered with MGM Resorts to acquire more properties – VIDEO

A few months after the Blackstone Group bought the Bellagio for more than $4 billion, it has partnered with MGM Resorts on a deal to acquire two other Las Vegas Strip properties. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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