Billionaire Sheldon Adelson at the Palazzo Las Vegas, his most recent casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, on January 8, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Sheldon Adelson, the Republican Party’s billionaire casino mogul and megadonor, died Monday at the age of 87.
Adelson died from complications related to the treatment he was receiving for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to a press release Tuesday morning from Las Vegas Sands, owned by the casino and resort company Adelson.
Adelson, whose net worth was estimated by Forbes at around $ 33 billion, had been one of the most viewed donors to support President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort.
Former President George W. Bush, whom Adelson had previously given, in a statement called the late businessman “an American patriot, a generous benefactor of charitable causes and a staunch defender of Israel.”
“Sheldon was a generous benefactor of charitable causes, especially medical research and education on Jewish heritage. Many will miss him, no more and no less than his beloved family,” Bush said.
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