Miriam Adelson Net Worth 2025

What is Miriam Adelson net worth 2025?

Miriam Adelson  is an American and Israeli physician, philanthropist and political donor. She was married to Sheldon Adelson from 1991 until his death in 2021.

After his death, she became the owner of the Las Vegas Sands and is estimated to be the fifth richest woman in America

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Miriam Adelson Net Worth 2025

Miriam Adelson Net Worth in 2025 is valued at $36 billion. She is one of the richest women in the United States and the world.

She is the current publisher of the newspaper Israel Hayom and the majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Miriam and Sheldon Adelson were philanthropists, primarily through the Adelson Foundation, and political megadonors to the Republican Party. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump in 2018.

Adelson and her husband were significant donors for both Trump campaigns, his presidential inauguration, and his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference.

Miriam Adelson net worth and Biography

Adelson was born Miriam Farbstein in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine in 1945 to parents who fled Poland before the Holocaust.

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Her father was a prominent member of Mapam, a left-wing political party in Israel.

Education

She attended the Hebrew Reali School for 12 years. She served mandatory army service as a medical officer at Ness Ziona.

After earning a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she earned a medical degree graduating magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine

Occupation

She became a physician and eventually the chief internist in an emergency room at Tel Aviv’s Rokach Hospital.

 After divorcing her first husband, she went to Rockefeller University in 1986 as an associate physician specializing in drug addiction.

She was mentored there by and subsequently collaborated for two decades with Mary Jeanne Kreek, who was known for the development of methadone therapy for heroin addiction.

In 1993, she founded a substance abuse center and research clinic. She and her husband opened the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Research Clinic in Las Vegas seven years later. She has published numerous scientific papers on the topic of drug addiction during her career and is a guest investigator at Rockefeller University.

Philanthropy

The Adelson family became philanthropists, primarily through the Adelson Foundation, and political megadonors.

The couple was presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution in 2008.

Miriam Adelson net worth

Miriam Adelson Net Worth in 2025 is valued at $36 billion. She is one of the richest women.

Business ventures

In 2018, Adelson was named the publisher of Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, a position she still holds. She is also a voting member on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California.

After Sheldon Adelson died in 2021, she became the owner of casino company Las Vegas Sands, which he had founded. She is currently the majority owner of Las Vegas Sands, which she runs along with her family.

Adelson is currently in the process of becoming majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, after an agreement to buy a majority stake in the team at a $3.5 billion valuation from Mark Cuban, who would retain an ownership stake, operational control, and day-to-day management of the organization.

Family

She married Ariel Ochshorn, also a physician, with whom she had two children. While at Rockefeller University, she met Sheldon Adelson, whom she married in 1991.

Miriam Adelson Net Worth is valued at $36 billion.

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