Tabish was caught raiding the vault after Binion died, and his rare silver coins disappeared from his safe. Eventually Sandy and Tabish become lovers. At one point, he has Tabish, a contractor, dig a concrete vault in the desert, where he hid silver bullion amounting to something like $7 million. He meets Murphy in a strip club, and the two become involved. Ted Binion was a drug addict who smoked heroin and took Xanax, among other things, but he was filthy rich. It was picked up by the cameras in the courtroom - it's a shame that moment was left out of this movie. When Sandy was brought in for trial, she was sitting across, not next to, Rick Tabish, and she gave him a devastating smile that left no doubt as to their relationship. However, they left out one of the most interesting parts of the case.
The producers wanted to stick closely to the facts of the case, and they probably did. The film is based on the true story of the death of Vegas casino owner Ted Binion and the subsequent arrest of his girlfriend Sandy and her boyfriend, Rick Tabish. Mena Suvari plays Sandy Murphy, a former stripper mixed up in 'Sex and Lies in Sin City,' a 2008 TV movie also starring Matthew Modine as Ted Binion and Johnathon Schaech as Rick Tabish, Marcia Gay Harden as Binion's sister Becky and Peter Haskell as Ian Miller.
