Former Seminole Tribe leader who built Hard Rock into worldwide brand dies from COVID

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Former Seminole Tribe leader who built Hard Rock into worldwide brand dies from COVID
BY DEVOUN CETOUTE
[link:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article246354135.html#storylink=cpy|
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article246354135.html#storylink=cpy]

Max Osceola Jr., a longtime Seminole Tribe leader who transformed the tribe by building the Seminole Hard Rock hotel, cafe and casino brand into one of the world’s most successful entertainment enterprises, died Thursday night at the Cleveland Clinic from complications due to COVID-19.

He was 70.

He had been hospitalized and receiving treatment for the virus for several weeks.

Osceola served on the Seminole Tribal Council for more then two decades, representing the Hollywood Seminole Reservation. He was reelected to 13 consecutive two-year terms from 1985 to 2010.

“He served on the Seminole Tribal Council, the five-member elected governing body of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, during a time of major expansion of Seminole Gaming, which has grown to become one of the world’s most successful gaming operations,” according to a statement released by the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

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1. I'm pretty sure it was his family, perhaps father, uncles, that were featured and had small parts

in the film Key Largo. Bogart spent quite a bit of time in the Keys back in the day and the story is that he befriended them. I have no proof or link but it is a nice story if true.