Nevada’s senior deputy AG, Gordy Fink, dies

Monday, May 11, 1998 | 2:48 a.m.

Gordy Fink, Nevada's senior deputy attorney general who has represented the state's Equal Rights Commission, Commission on Women and the Nevada State Athletic Commission, has died suddenly at his Las Vegas home. He was 44.

The Las Vegas resident of 34 years died Sunday. The cause of death was unknown. Last Friday, he attended a 50th birthday party of a friend and he spent Saturday with his parents.

Last July, Fink served as legal council for the Athletic Commission in the hearing in which Mike Tyson's license was revoked for biting the ear of heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a title fight at the MGM Grand.

Services are pending and are being handled by Palm Mortuary-Eastern.

"Gordy was a great asset to this community in every thing he did, whether it was teaching at UNLV, supporting Rebel athletics with a passion or his work with the attorney general's office," Tony Cordasco, UNLV's broadcast and productions service manager and a longtime friend, said.

Tadesco and Fink were co-hosts of the UNLV Rebel Talk show during the 1990 season when UNLV won the NCAA championship. Fink also was a UNLV political science instructor since 1984 and taught constitutional law.

"He was a terrific lawyer, a man consumed by sports and a great Nevada citizen," longtime friend Sig Rogich, a Las Vegas political consultant said. "To lose a young man in the prime of his life and career is so sad."

Rogich and Fink had planned to go to Los Angeles this week to watch a Dodgers baseball game.

Born July 13, 1953, in Detroit, Fink came to Las Vegas with his family at age 10.

Fink earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1975 and a law degree from California Western in 1978.

In the early 1990s, Fink represented the Nevada Equal Rights Commission and the Nevada Commission on Women as a deputy attorney general. He left briefly to run for the Assembly in 1992.

He is survived by his parents, Dr. Joseph Fink and Charolette Fink, both of Las Vegas.