Miriam Adelson is the world’s richest doctor (Image: Getty)
The world’s richest doctor is worth an incredible £27 billion and is the owner of a basketball team.
Miriam Adelson is a 79-year-old Israeli-American doctor, businesswoman, and political donor. She became a doctor in her early 20s and specialised in addiction.
Her estimated net worth is £27 billion, according to Forbes, making her the 53rd-richest person in the world. She is also the world’s richest Israeli and the eighth-richest woman in America.
Miriam and her husband Sheldon Adelson founded the Adelson Foundation in 2007 and have since given hundreds of millions of dollars to Jewish and Israeli causes.
Adelson has also been a major donor to . She donated to his election campaigns, his last inauguration and his legal defence during the investigation into Russian election interference.
Miriam Adelson is also the owner of the Dallas Mavericks (Image: Getty)
In 2018, Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian which can be given to anyone selected by the president.
Speaking of her Medal last year, Trump said: “It’s actually much better because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers.
“They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead. She gets it, and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal.”
During last year’s election, Adelson pledged more than £82 million to Trump’s campaign in exchange for his presidential recognition of ’s sovereignty.
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Adelson became the owner of the Las Vegas Sands casino after her husband’s death in 2021. She is also the publisher of two newspapers, Hayom and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In 2023, Adelson and her son-in-law Patrick Dumont bought controlling ownership of the Dallas Mavericks, a Texan NBA team. Dumont, the CFO of Las Vegas Sands, became the Mavericks’ governor and representative to the NBA Board of Governors.
The family owns 69% of the team and the shares belonging to the previous controlling owner Mark Cuban, a TV personality and businessman, were reduced to 27%.