Rank #61
Miriam Adelson & family
Net worth $35.3B
Casinos · United States
- Born
- Oct 10, 1945
- Age
- 80
- Source
- Casinos
- Residence
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Net worth over time
Biography
- Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, the founder and former chairman and CEO of casino company Las Vegas Sands, who died at age 87 in 2021.
- She and her family now own more than half of the New York Stock Exchange-listed gambling empire, which has casinos in Singapore and Macao.
- In 2022, Las Vegas Sands sold its assets on the Vegas Strip, the Venetian Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center, to Apollo Global and Vici Properties for $6.25 billion.
- Adelson bought a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks NBA team from billionaire Mark Cuban in 2023.
- Long known as a GOP megadonor, both alongside her late husband and after his death, Adelson is a top backer of Donald Trump.
- Born in Israel, Adelson became a medical doctor focusing on addiction.
- Miriam and Sheldon Adelson founded the Sheldon G. Adelson Research Clinic in Las Vegas, which treats people for opioid use disorder.
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