Sheldon Adelson
Las Vegas, Nevada
Drop Out, City College of New York
United States
Las Vegas Sands
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casinos, Self Made
$37,400,000,000
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The Richest Person In Every State 2019
#24 Billionaires 2019
Sheldon Adelson is the CEO and chairman of casino company Las Vegas Sands.Today he owns more than half of the $14 billion (sales) gambling empire.Adelson is currently being treated for cancer (non-Hodgkin lymphoma), but he's still able to fulfill his executive duties. He didn't get into the casino business until age 55, when he bought the Sands Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas strip for $128 million.Adelson is a big donor to Jewish organizations and has given $410 million to Birthright, which funds trips to Israel for young Jewish adults.A big President Trump supporter, Adelson and his wife donated $123 million to Republican campaigns and political action committees in 2018. The son of immigrants from Lithuania and Wales, Adelson grew up sleeping on the floor of a Boston tenement.
At age 12, Adelson borrowed $200 from his uncle to buy the rights to sell newspapers on a busy Boston street corner.Adelson made his first fortune organizing a computer trade show, Comdex, which he sold to Softbank in 1995 for some $862 million.
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