Scotland Yard. The company allegedly allowed non-members and criminal elements to use the casino. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement also was investigating the purchase of one of the properties (the Mayflower Hotel) from a member of the Philadelphia crime family. The casino was initially to be financed from box office receipts from Bob Guccione's epic porn movie Caligula. When the movie failed to generate the expected revenues, other financing avenues were sought. During the company's quest for financing, Guccione got involved in the Abscam sting operation when FBI informant Melvin Weinberg tried to get Guccione to pay a bribe. Weinberg told Guccione that an Arab sheikh wanted to invest $150 million in the casino project, but only if the casino had obtained a gaming license. Weinberg wanted Guccione to pay $300,000 to NJ gaming officials to get the license. Guccione responded by saying "Are you out of your mind?" After the Abscam scandal came to light, Guccione sued the federal government, but lost. Penthouse International's search for financing led to other lawsuits. Marjorie Lee Thoreson (a/k/a Anneka diLorenzo), the 1975 Penthouse Pet of the Year, won a $4,060,000 sexual harassment lawsuit against Penthouse and Guccione, claiming among other charges, that she was coerced into providing sexual favors to a furniture manufacturer from Milan who could provide financing for the casino venture. However, on appeal, the punitive damages, representing $4 million of the total verdict, were disallowed. In 1987, Penthouse initially won a lawsuit for $136 million against Dominion Federal Savings & Loan, charging that the thrift backed out of a financing arrangement for the casino that had been agreed on. However, the judgment was overturned the following year. In 1989, Penthouse also sued Pratt Hotel Corp. (owner of the Sands Atlantic City casino) for damages in regard to their failing to complete a deal to acquire the Penthouse property. In a related lawsuit filed by the Sands against Donald Trump, it was alleged that in 1988 the president of Penthouse International threatened to expose Trump's affair with Marla Maples in its magazine unless Trump stopped trying to block the sale of the Penthouse casino property to the Sands. In 1997, Guccione announced that he was going to develop the Mayflower Hotel property (located between Tennessee Ave, St. James Pl and Boardwalk) into a casino, but nothing became of it. Guccione later tried to develop a resort in a