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Jay Leno Dismisses Gambling Debt Rumors Amid Bizarre Injuries

Jay Leno dismissed tabloid speculation that he has a massive gambling debt to the mob following a series of increasingly bizarre injuries.

"I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill," he tells Bill Maher In November, Leno was spotted in public with severe bruising to his face and an eye patch after an incident where he fell down while descending a 60-foot hill outside a Hampton Inn hotel in Pennsylvania. Two years earlier, Leon suffered significant burns to his face after a gas fire, which he blamed on an attempt to declog a fuel line on his 1907 White Steam Car in his garage.

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