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                                UNITED STATES
                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
                          WASHINGTON, D.C.   20549 

                                  FORM 8-K

                               CURRENT REPORT
     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 
 
        Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 27, 1996 
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                              CASINO MAGIC CORP. 
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            (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
         MINNESOTA                  0-20712                  64-0817483
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(State or other jurisdiction      (Commission             (I.R.S. Employer
     of incorporation)             File Number)          Identification No.)

               711 CASINO MAGIC DRIVE, BAY ST. LOUIS, MS   39520
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              (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

                               (601) 467-9257 
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             (Registrant's telephone  number, including area code)

                               NOT APPLICABLE 
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             (Former name, former address and former fiscal year,
                       if changed since last report) 



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ITEM 5.  OTHER EVENTS.

     Pursuant to Rule 135(c) by a press release in the form attached as 
Exhibit 20.1 hereto, on June 27, 1996, Casino Magic Corp. announced its 
intent to make a private placement debt offering pursuant to Rule 144A in 
the near future of approximately $145 million aggregate principal amount of 
senior secured notes.  The notes will be secured by, among other things, the 
assets of the Company's planned Bossier City, Louisiana casino and the 
proceeds will be used primarily to develop the Bossier City Casino, repay 
certain indebtedness previously incurred with respect to the Company's 
proposed Louisiana gaming activities and make certain improvements to the 
Company's Biloxi casino.

     Casino Magic Corp. and its subsidiary issuer of outstanding $135 
million 11-1/2% First Mortgage Notes due 2001 concurrently announced the 
commencement of a consent solicitation with respect to such First Mortgage 
Notes in order to permit the intended issuance of the new notes and to 
effectuate certain other proposed amendments to the indenture for the First 
Mortgage Notes.

ITEM 7.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS. 

     (c) Exhibits  

         20.1.    Press Release dated June 27, 1996 regarding consent 
solicitation and proposed note offering.

                                  SIGNATURES 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the 
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the 
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                       CASINO MAGIC CORP.
                                       Registrant

Date:  July 3, 1996                      /s/      JAMES E. ERNST
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                                       James E. Ernst, President
                                       and Chief Executive Officer
 
Date:  July 3, 1996                      /s/      JAY S. OSMAN
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                                       Jay S. Osman, Chief Financial Officer
                                       and Treasurer (principal financial
                                       and accounting officer)

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