Lim Kok Thay
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of London | Harvard Business School
Malaysia
casinos
$4,100,000,000
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#7 Malaysia's 50 Richest 2019
#436 Billionaires 2019
As Genting chairman, Lim Kok Thay has fast expanded the group's global footprint in the gaming sector. Resorts World Las Vegas is next. Plans for its movie-inspired theme park at Resorts World Genting collapsed in 2018 after a fallout with 20th Century Fox. Genting sued for $1 billion.In 2018 Lim opened Resorts World Catskills, but the $1.2 billion casino-and-entertainment complex has struggled to lure visitors to upstate New York.The setbacks come amid a family feud over the empire's wealth and businesses, which include a palm-oil unit, that has been making local headlines.
His late father, Lim Goh Tong, arrived in Malaysia from Fujian, China, in 1937 at age 19 with barely anything to his name.
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