Laughlin, born in 1931, died at 92 years old on Sunday, according to a Facebook post from Don Laughlin’s Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)ĭon Laughlin, the real estate developer and resort owner who created the Southern Nevada river town about 100 miles south of Las Vegas that bears his name, has died. American gambling entrepreneur and hotelier Don Laughlin poses for a portrait in his office at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin on Nov.