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Miriam Adelson | |
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 Adelson in 2023 | |
| Born | Miriam Farbstein 10 October 1945 |
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| Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BS) Tel Aviv University (MD) |
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| Children | 5, including Matan |
| Awards | .svg){kind=small} Presidential Medal of Freedom (2018)Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship (2008) Doctor Honoris Causa by Tel Aviv University (2007) |
Miriam Adelson (née Farbstein; born 10 October 1945) is an Israeli-American physician, businesswoman, and political donor.
She and her husband Sheldon Adelson, to whom she was married from 1991 until his death in 2021, became philanthropists through the Adelson Foundation, giving hundreds of millions of dollars to Jewish and Israel causes. Miriam Adelson is one of the largest supporters of Donald Trump, who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018. Adelson has been a major donor to Trump's presidential campaigns, as well as his 2017 presidential inauguration and his legal defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference.
After her husband's death, Miriam became the owner of the Las Vegas Sands. She is the current publisher of the newspaper Israel Hayom and, with her family, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Adelson is also the majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team with her son-in-law Patrick Dumont. As of 2024, according to Forbes, she has an estimated net worth of $32 billion, making her the 53rd-richest person as well as the richest Israeli in the world,[2][3] and is the eighth-richest woman in America.[4]
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- ^ Young, Sarah (1 October 2024). "The 10 Richest Women In America 2024". Forbes. Archived from the original on 26 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.