Many fans are curious about Miriam Adelson's financial success in April 2026. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.
What is Miriam Adelson's Net Worth?
Miriam and Sheldon were also notable for being among the most-generous donors to Republican candidates and conservative causes.
Miriam Farbstein was born on October 10, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. Her parents fled Poland ahead of the Holocaust and settled in the Middle East. As a child the family settled in Haifa, Israel, where her father opened a chain of movie theaters.
Sheldon and Miriam married in 1991. On their honeymoon in Venice, Italy, Sheldon – who by now was a wealthy trade show tycoon with a burgeoning casino business – had an idea for a mega hotel/resort modeled after an Italian city.
She got her bachelor's degree in microbiology and genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her M.D. from Tel Aviv University's Sackler Medical School. After medical school, Miriam worked as an emergency room doctor at Rokach Hospital in Tel Aviv. She eventually rose to the position of chief internist at the hospital's emergency room. She married Dr. Ariel Ochshorn and had two sons. They divorced in the early 1980s and she moved to New York City to become an associate physician specializing in drug addiction in 1986.
A medical doctor who served in the Israeli army, Miriam is the founder of two clinics that treat substance abuse, one in US and the other in Israel. She and Sheldon were set up on a blind date in 1991 after they had both divorced previous partners. They remained together until his death in 2021. Today she is one of therichest women in the world.
Miriam Adelson is an Israeli American physician, political donor and casino heiress who has a net worth of $34 billion. Miriam earned her fortune thanks to her multi-decade marriage to the late Casino magnateSheldon Adelson. Sheldon died on January 11, 2021. At the time of his death Sheldon was worth $40 billion. Upon his death, Miriam inherited majority ownership of Las Vegas Sands, the casino empire that generates more than $4 billion in revenue every year. She owns 47% of the publicly-traded Las Vegas Sands company's outstanding stock and over the last three decades the Adelsons have received $10 billion worth of dividends. She owned 57% of the company's shares prior to November 2023 when she sold roughly $2 billion worth of shares in preparation to buy the Dallas Mavericks fromMark Cuban.
In 1986 Miriam moved to New York City after landing a job at Rockefeller University, where she specialized in drug addiction. In 1989 she met Sheldon Adelson. They were set up on a blind date.
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