Las Vegas Weekly

July 15, 2009 · 6:12 PM

Change in Criss Angel’s lineup as Flynn departs

By John Katsilometes

Photo: Solters PR

In a trick more convincing than anything you’ll see in “Believe,” Criss Angel has just made a member of his inner circle disappear.

Out the backstage door is Angel’s longtime Las Vegas publicist Steve Flynn. The two had worked together nearly five years, and September would have marked that anniversary. Talk of the professional split had been ongoing for weeks, and the decision was made official last Thursday. Flynn says the parting was amicable, and agreed-upon by both sides, but it is about as surprising as Angel’s trite use of a fog machine in his show at Luxor.

This professional partnership was teetering the moment Angel and Holly Madison split up in February. Flynn also reps Madison, and even The Flying Wallendas couldn’t have walked that tightrope (in an another dazzling sleight-of-hand trick, the person who helped make the Flynn-Madison deal a reality was Angel, pre-breakup).

Flynn still represents Carrot Top, “Fantasy” at Luxor, self-defense expert Tim Larkin and of course "Peepshow" star Madison. Angel will probably seek representation outside the area, likely an agency that knows its way around the circus.

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