Adelson led a project to bring Las Vegas Sands casinos to Macau. The 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m 2 ) Sands Macao became China 's first Las Vegas-style casino when it opened in May 2004. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] He recovered his initial $265-million investment in one year and, because he owned 69% of the stock, he increased his wealth when he took the ...

Jan 13, 2021 · Analysts have defended to Lusa that the North American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who died today at the age of 87, was one of the main visionaries who transformed Macau into what it is today: the gambling capital of the world.

Jan 21, 2025 · Sheldon Adelson, American hotel-casino owner, newspaper publisher, and political contributor who earned an immense fortune from casinos in Las Vegas and Macau, enabling him to support conservative political causes on a large scale in the United States and Israel.

Jul 27, 2012 · Democrats recently seized on an allegation in Jacobs’ legal pleadings — that Adelson tolerated prostitution at the Macau casinos — and issued press releases attacking Republican congressional...

Jul 16, 2012 · A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls.

Adelson’s casinos in Macau, a special administrative region of China, provide the majority of the revenue for his company, Las Vegas Sands.

May 15, 2014 · Ten years ago, Sheldon Adelson was a Las Vegas B-lister who’d stumbled into the casino business, scrambling to pay the interest on junk bonds that financed his only hotel. Then, in May 2004,...

Casino tycoon and American political mega-donor Sheldon Gary Adelson died last night following complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 87.

May 6, 2015 · LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson found himself answering questions in a Las Vegas courtroom on Tuesday about what he knew about a plot to behead employees in Macau and if Chinese government promises were broken as Las Vegas Sands Corp. developed properties on the lucrative Cotai Strip.

Jul 3, 2012 · Sheldon Adelson is the casino mogul and philanthropist whose ten-million-dollar donation last month to a Super PAC supporting Romney was “by far the biggest gift to date,” according to...