KERKORIAN GIVES $18 MILLION TO AGASSI PREP AT BENEFIT CONCERT

Andre Agassi -- here with his wife, Steffi Graf, on the Grand Slam red carpet -- announced an $18 million donation from Kirk Kerkorian at Saturday's 16th Grand Slam for Children benefit at Wynn Las Vegas. (Photo courtesy of Glenn Pinkerton/Las Vegas News Bureau).

Last October, an emotional Andre Agassi publicly thanked gaming pioneer Kirk Kerkorian for putting food on his family's table decades ago.

Saturday night, the tennis superstar again paid tribute to Kerkorian at the Grand Slam for Children benefit, this time for contributing to Agassi's second family of sorts.

Kerkorian gave $18 million to support the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy for at-risk students, a record donation Agassi said will "outlive all of us" as the funds guarantee the Las Vegas charter school's future in perpetuity.
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