Jay Leno denies gambling debt rumours and “being beaten up by the mob”

https://www.nme.com/news/tv/jay-leno-denies-gambling-debt-rumours-and-being-beaten-up-by-the-mob-3825106

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  1. >Leno denied the claims and said: “I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill.”

    >Maher then clarified that, the hill incident was just a “cover story,” and that “they just beat you like the mob always does.” He also referenced Leno’s motorcyle accident.

    >“What happened was, the guy had a rope across his driveway and it cut me,” Leno explained, referring to the latter

    >“I got a new face when my face caught fire, and two months later [the motorcycle accident] tore my face, I had to call my face guy, ‘I need another face.’”

    >He also said that if he owed money to the mafia: “I like the idea that they wouldn’t just take one of my cars to pay the gambling debt.”

  2. Can you imagine trying to punch that chin? That’s how you break a damn bone.

  4. Conan better be careful. Leno might take over as host of his podcast.

  6. Leno is LOADED. He wouldn’t need to borrow money from anyone, let alone the mob.

    Think of this: Leno has one of the most valuable and expensive car collections in the world, and he has never spent a single cent of his Tonight Show money. (That was earning him up to $30 Million a year at one point.)

    Let that sink in. That’s how much money he has.

  7. Honestly I’d kinda like Jay more if it was true, but let’s be real he’s got a whole garage full of collateral sitting at home. He’d have a long way to fall before welching on any gambling debts.

  8. Isn’t Leno like the most straight edge guy in comedy?

    His only vice (if it can be described as one) is collecting and restoring cars and motorcycles.

  10. Never bought his story to begin with. Why the fuck would Leno or anyone above middle class be staying at a Hampton Inn?

  11. This guy wouldn’t be casually doing standup in Hermosa every Sunday if this were a thing lol

  12. Who have I missed? Bruno Mars and Jay Leno owe the mob money

  15. If he has gambling debt, how the hell does he have such a gargantuan garage?

  17. Well, of course, this is just something some idiot made up.

  19. Dude owns a McLaren f1 that alone is worth 30 million. He’s not in debt lol

  20. The bookies were all “give us the money Jay.” And Jay says “I don’t have it all because I never touched my tonight show money but…here’s something!”

  22. An idea put forward by Bill Maher with no grounding in reality? Well, color me shocked.

  23. Some of you just haven’t let the Conan thing go and it shows. Whole thing is ludicrous. Dude has millions in the bank (famously never spending a dime of his Tonight Show money), literal millions in classic cars, and premium real estate where is garage is. If he was that much of a degenerate gambler where the mob was kicking his ass, all this would’ve been gone years ago…

  24. Isn’t he well known for his cheapness ? Even I doubt his gambling debts

  25. To be fair, even if he was in debt to the mob, would he actually admit that?

  26. Even if he did get beaten up by the mob, I’m sure he’d take it on the chin

  27. No, Jay, I don’t think the mob threw you down a hill outside of a Hampton Inn, you dummy. I think you were hurt by people related to your gambling debts, and you made up a bullshit story about falling down a hill. I mean, really – a fingernail coming off as a result of a fall down a hill that isn’t even that big?

    His stories of how he got hurt are so, so suspicious.

    For example, one of the (several) times he got hurt, he claims he had a motorcycle accident where he “cut through a parking lot” after apparently “smelling leaking gas” and while cutting through the parking lot, “there was a wire across two poles which was not well marked and, boom, I just got — it clotheslined me, hit me in the neck and threw me off the bike.”

    What’s convenient about that story is that it involves a motorcycle accident where he can conveniently say “oh, it happened while I was cutting through a parking lot, that’s why there weren’t witnesses”

  28. The math ain’t mathin’.

    How has he “not spent a cent” of his Tonight Show money while simultaneously owning one of the most expensive/lavish car collections in the world.

    “Oh it was standup that covered all his expenses…”

    Does he even have a stand up special? I’m pretty sure this dude doesn’t write/produce new material. I remember him speaking on his singular “act” on JRE. So are these shows (which I’ve never seen or heard of) just “of the radar” speaking gigs? Or is he touring his singular act? And on top of THAT his tour schedule is very light… currently 12 dates in 2025. HOW IS THAT COVERING a 100 million dollar car collection!!??

    Just like the whole Tonight Show debacle… this man has and always will be… completely full of shit.

  29. Leno has more money than he knows what to with. This is all a smokescreen.

    A rumor going around is that he was hit by his wife, who is suffering from dementia.

    Very common among dementia patients. They often get inexplicably violent.

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