Vice Media CEO Shane Smith is spending money like it's pre-crisis 2007.
Smith, 45, was outed Wednesday as the big spender who splurged on a $300,000 dinner last month at Prime Steakhouse at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas.
He personally footed the bill for at least a dozen people at the ritzy Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant, following a "lucky gambling run," according to Bloomberg News, which first reported his identity.
The dinner held during the International Consumer Electronics Show in early January was so exorbitant that it drew the attention of Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International.
Chairman Jim Murren told analysts Tuesday that he hadn't seen a bill that big since 2007. The tab — which included wine with a price tag north of $15,000 — was an "encouraging sign" that the Las Vegas strip was rebounding, he said.
An MGM spokesman said it was a party of 12, but a guest at the dinner told Bloomberg the headcount was closer to 25.
During CES, late New York Times media columnist David Carr, who died last week at 58, hinted that Smith was winning big at blackjack.
Smith, who founded Vice as a single magazine in Montreal, brags in his corporate bio that it has grown to become a "global company operating in 30 countries."
Vice's growing empire includes a Web site and a globe-trotting docu-series on HBO.
Last year, Vice landed $500 million in investments from Technology Crossover Ventures and A+E Networks. 21st Century Fox is also among its backers (Rupert Murdoch is the controlling shareholder of Fox and News. Corp, the owner of The Post.)
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