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Sheldon Adelson, casino mogul and one of the most influential Republican donors in the US, has passed away Coming Monday at the age of 87 due to complications related to cancer, his Las Vegas Sands company reported Tuesday.
The son of a taxi driver, Adelson built a global gambling empire with casinos in Macau, Singapore and Las Vegas (USA).
“His impact on the industry will last forever. He transformed the industry, transformed the trajectory of the company that founded and reshaped tourism,” the company, with more than 50,000 employees, said in a statement.
He was considered one of the richest men in the world with an estimated net worth of $ 40,000 million.
He was one of the first major US donors to support Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy, with whom he is good friends, and spanned his influence in the conservative movement for years.
One of the main causes was the defense of Israel, and the opening ceremony of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, promoted by Trump, was one of the main guests in 2018.
The Venetian casino in Las Vegas will continue to be one of the great exponents of Adelson’s concept of combining gambling and tourism: a convention, hotel and gambling center on the Las Vegas Strip, decorated in Venetian style, filled with restaurants along canals and monuments made of paper. maché.
Born in Boston in 1933 and starting out selling newspapers, Adelson owned the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the only major newspaper to endorse Trump’s 2016 candidacy.
The tycoon planned to expand his casino empire to Spain in 2013, with the creation of Eurovegas, a massive tourist and gambling complex south of Madrid, but differences over the legal exemptions Adelson demanded frustrated the multi-million investment.