He wagered up to a million dollars a night, but wandered around Las Vegas casinos in sweatpants and flip-flops, and carried his own drink into the high rollers' area because he didn't want to tip the waitresses too much. He had a doctor on retainer who prescribed him valium. This was Stephen Paddock as he saw himself four years before he opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers, according to his deposition in a slip-and-fall lawsuit against a hotel.
From CNN:
His de facto home was often one of the casinos, where he stayed in rooms that were provided for free "95% of the time." ... At the Cosmopolitan, he said he had opened a bottle of sake in his room, possibly on the night of the incident, but did not drink much.
A lawyer asked him to explain why he would open the beverage but not drink it. Paddock explained that everything in his room was "comped" or free, "so, yes, I would open all sorts of things." "And if you aren't comped at casinos, you wouldn't understand," he added.
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