Miriam Adelson & family
Source of wealth: Casinos
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Biography
Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, the founder and former chairman and CEO of casino company Las Vegas Sands, who died at age 87 in 2021.
She and her family now own more than half of the New York Stock Exchange-listed gambling empire, which has casinos in Singapore and Macao.
In 2022, Las Vegas Sands sold its assets on the Vegas Strip, the Venetian Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center, to Apollo Global and Vici Properties for $6.25 billion.
Adelson bought a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks NBA team from billionaire Mark Cuban in 2023.
Long known as a GOP megadonor, both alongside her late husband and after his death, Adelson is a top backer of Donald Trump.
Born in Israel, Adelson became a medical doctor focusing on addiction.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Miriam Adelson & family's fortune is equivalent to 243 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Miriam Adelson & family could buy 64,905,562 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 12 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Miriam Adelson & family will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Miriam Adelson & family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Miriam Adelson & family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 16.2 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Miriam Adelson & family could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 7.2 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Miriam Adelson & family could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 10.6 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Miriam Adelson & family could pay for it in full for 14.4 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Miriam Adelson & family could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 60.8 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Miriam Adelson & family with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.4 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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