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The '''Omni La Costa Resort & Spa''' is a luxury destination resort hotel opened in 1965, located in [[Carlsbad, California]] and is owned by Omni Hotels & Resorts, based out of Dallas, Texas. The resort is located in the San Diego area hills and is known for its golf courses and hosts professional golf and tennis tournaments. Tournaments at La Costa were hosted starting in the late 1960s, including many [[PGA Tour]] events and tennis events such as the [[Southern California Open]]. Currently the resort is home to events such as World Team Tennis and the California State Amateur Championship. Omni La Costa Resort & Spa is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has hosted the La Costa Film Festival.

==History==
The resort was founded in the early 1960s when a real estate developer, [[Irwin Molasky]], from Las Vegas discovered an equestrian ranch in the coastal foothills of Southern California. Originally conceived as a residential resort offering activities and instruction for all ages, the resort opened on July 10, 1965<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/san-diego-la-costa/property-details/history/by-decade|title=History by the Decades at Omni la Costa Resort & Spa))</ref> with 40 units available to guests for $22 per night which included green fees, as well as access to tennis, horse stables and the pool.

==Professional golf==
La Costa served as a home to two notable [[PGA Tour]] events.  For thirty years, the resort hosted the [[SBS Championship|Mercedes Championships]] (originally called the Tournament of Champions), from 1969 to [[1998 PGA Tour|1998]].  That event left for [[Maui]], [[Hawaii]], when La Costa was selected to host the inaugural [[WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship]] in [[1999 PGA Tour|1999]]. It hosted that event for seven of eight years (the [[2001 PGA Tour|2001]] event was played in [[Australia]]), until it moved to [[Arizona]] in [[2007 PGA Tour|2007]].  In [[2010 LPGA Tour|2010]] and [[2012 LPGA Tour|2012]], the resort hosted the [[Kia Classic]], an [[LPGA]] tour event with an estimated attendance of 43,000 in 2010.

==''Penthouse'' article lawsuit==
In March 1975, ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' published an article headlined "La Costa: The Hundred Million-Dollar Resort with Criminal Clientele," written by [[Jeff Gerth]] and [[Lowell Bergman]]. The article indicated that the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad was developed by [[Mervyn Adelson]] and [[Irwin Molasky]] using loans from the [[Teamsters]] Pension Fund and that the resort was a playground for organized crime figures. The owners, along with two officials of the resort, [[Moe Dalitz|Morris B. "Moe" Dalitz]] and Allard Roen, filed a libel lawsuit for $522 million against the magazine and the writers. In 1982, a jury absolved the magazine of any liability against the lawsuit from the owners. The plaintiffs appealed but in December 1985 before a new trial could begin, the two sides settled.((citation needed|date=December 2013))  ''Penthouse'' issued a statement that they did not mean to imply that Adelson and Molaskey are or were members of organized crime. In turn the plaintiffs issued a statement lauding ''Penthouse'' publisher [[Bob Guccione]] and his magazine for their "personal and professional awards."  Total litigation costs were estimated to exceed $20 million.<ref>Court Revives La Costa Spa's Penthouse Suit http://articles.latimes.com/1985-05-23/local/me-8091_1_la-costa</ref><ref>Penthouse, Resort End Legal Battle in a Draw  http://articles.latimes.com/1985-12-21/local/me-3043_1_la-costa-resort-owners</ref> According to the  ''[[San Diego Reader]], ''Merv Adelson finally admitted to mob ties in an interview published in the March 2013 issue of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine.<ref>"[http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/jan/31/la-costas-merv-adelson-admits-mob-ties/ La Costa's Merv Adelson admits mob ties.]" The ''San Diego Reader'', January 31, 2013</ref><ref>"[https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2013/03/graydon-carter-merv-adelson-mob-connections The Beautiful and the Damned]" ''Vanity Fair ''magazine, March 2013</ref>

==Connection to other controversies==
On May 8, 2007, [[WXYZ-TV]] in Detroit, Michigan, reported that now convicted and deposed mayor of Detroit, [[Kwame Kilpatrick]] used $8,600 from a fund created for voter education, economic empowerment and crime prevention to take his family and a [[babysitter]] on a week-long vacation to the La Costa Resort and Spa.<ref>"[http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story.aspx?content_id=bcf27fcb-2679-414c-b84a-4dc27f30e621/Steve Wilson Investigates Mayor's Expenses.]" WXYZ.com. 2007-05-10</ref>
Tax and accounting experts found Kilpatrick's use of the fund also violated [[Treasury regulations|IRS regulations]].

==Ownership timeline==
*1965-1987: Mervyn Adelson and [[Irwin Molasky]] 
*1987-2001: Sports Shinko 
*2001-2007: KSL Resorts<ref>[https://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/17/business/fi-5134 KSL Buys La Costa Resort & Spa]</ref>
*2007-2010: [[Goldman Sachs|Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds]]
*2010-2013: KSL Capital Partners<ref>[http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/17/private-equity-firm-buys-la-costa/ Private equity firm buys La Costa]</ref>
*2013–Present: [[Omni Hotels & Resorts]]<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertainment/the-scene/La-Costa-Resort-Purchased-by-Omni-211304331.html|title=La Costa Resort Purchased by Omni))</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://wikimapia.org/#lat=33.0899461&lon=-117.2661674&z=18&l=0&m=b La Costa Resort and Spa Wikimapia]

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