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Photo Gallery: It’s Azure Pool time for DWTS couple Maks & Karina

Posted July 5, 2009 • 9:00 a.m.

Dancing With the Stars couple Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff at Azure Pool in the Palazzo on the Fourth of July.

Photo: Denise Truscello/WireImage

The engagement ring sparkled and glistened as brightly as the holiday fireworks! Dancing With the Stars beauty Karina Smirnoff flashed the ring and her smiles when her fiance and co-star Maksim Chmerkovskiy and she celebrated the Fourth of July at the luxury and chic Azure Pool at the Palazzo.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Karina Smirnoff @Azure

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No confirmation about a Las Vegas or Hollywood wedding this year, but the couple will marry this fall. Maks, who was the choreographer for the newest routines of Steve Wynn’s Le Reve spectacular at the Wynn, has said he’d secretly been Karina’s admirer for many years but never had enough courage to invite her out until this year, and since then it’s been a whirlwind romance. Karina previously dated DWTS contestant Mario Lopez.

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Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy on the blue carpet at Azure Pool in the Palazzo.

Karina and Maks enjoyed massage spa services at Canyon Ranch Spa Club and the poolside lunch served in their VIP cabana -- one of 41 dotted there -- by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck’s Solar. During the afternoon pool events, they watched a fashion show with beautiful models and relaxed under the sun to music from a DJ.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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Strip Scribbles: MGM to open its walls on the Strip so tourists can see into the casino; Reviv hangover spa opens next month

June 18, 2013 • 5:28 p.m.

Hard on the heels of this morning’s announcement that MGM Resorts International and AEG have officially signed a $350 million deal for a new 20,000-seat arena stadium on the Strip comes word that MGM Grand will be taking down its walls! The front façade from the famous gold lion to the north end by M&M’s World is coming down.

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Criss Angel survives 'the most dangerous and frightening thing I’ve ever done in my life'

June 18, 2013 • 2:25 p.m.

For 10 nail-biting minutes, several thousand people stood in total silence and watched magician Criss Angel inch his way, blindfolded, across two steel beams swaying 50 feet in the air. This was no illusion for the “Believe” star. No tricks, nothing hidden, no sleight of hand or wizardry to divert attention. The "Mindfreak" star, who is shooting a new series of one-hour specials for Spike TV, was in full view of the audience members, who stopped shopping at the Fashion Show mall on the Strip.

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