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Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul and one of the most influential Republican donors in the United States, has died At the age of 87, on Monday, due to cancer complications, his company Las Vegas Sands reported on Tuesday.
Adelson, the son of a taxi driver, has built a global casino gambling empire in Macao, Singapore and Las Vegas (USA).
“Its impact on the industry will last forever. It has transformed the industry, changed the trajectory of the company that founded and reinvented tourism,” the company, with more than 50,000 employees, said in a statement.
He was considered one of the richest people in the world, with an estimated fortune of 40,000 million dollars.
He was one of the first major American donors to support Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy, of which he is a close friend, and his influence in the conservative movement lasted for years.
One of its main causes was the defense of Israel, and the opening ceremony of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, promoted by Trump, was among the main guests in 2018.
The Venetian casino in Las Vegas will remain one of the great exponents of the Adelson concept of combining gambling and tourism: a congress center, hotels and gambling on the Las Vegas Strip decorated in Venetian style, full of restaurants along the canals and cardboard-mache monuments.
Born in Boston in 1933 and began selling newspapers, Adelson owned the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the only major newspaper supporting Trump’s 2016 candidacy.
The tycoon planned in 2013 to expand his casino empire in Spain, with the creation of Eurovegas, a giant tourist and gaming complex in southern Madrid, but differences over the legal exemptions that Adelson demanded frustrated the multi-million dollar investment. .