Meet the billionaire behind iconic casinos like The Venetian and Marina Bay Sands, who's worth $37 billion, lives in a Vegas mansion, and has donated more than $25 million to Trump

His first jobs included selling newspapers on street corners, selling ads in trade magazines, and serving as a court reporter.

The trade show became one of the most attended in the world, and in 1995, Adelson and his partners sold it along with other smaller shows to SoftBank for $862 million.

He demolished the hotel in November 1966.

To imitate Venice, Italy, Adelson ordered detailed renderings of the Doge's Palace, Rialto Bridge, and Campanile tower.

He also enlisted the help of a historian from Venice who worked with the hotel's architects and interior designers.

"The Venetian's success in Las Vegas, and particularly our convention-based business strategy, would end up being the basis for our company receiving coveted licenses in Macao and Singapore," Adelson said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a newspaper he owns.

It opened in 2004 as Asia's first "American-style" casino and went on to become "extraordinarily successful," according to Forbes.

In 2015, he bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal for $140 million.

The newspaper was among a handful of publications that endorsed Trump in the 2016 election.

Both were divorced when they met in the late 1980s.

It was reportedly Miriam's idea to make The Venetian in Las Vegas Venice-themed after the couple vacationed in the Italian city for their honeymoon.

The multimillion-dollar home on Trophy Hills Drive appears to include a swimming pool and tennis courts.

The billionaire has reportedly spent about $52 million on several properties in the Colony, an exclusive gated community in Malibu, which is beloved by Hollywood celebrities.

The yacht was originally called Annaliesse when it was built in 2004 and then later renamed Delma.

After Adelson bought the yacht in 2015, he had it remodeled and extended in length by more than 21 feet, according to Beam Yachts. One yachting website puts Queen Miri's value at about $70 million.

Adelson reportedly owns an Airbus A345, which he once used to set a record for the longest flight ever to depart from Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport. According to Haaretz, he made a 17-hour and 40-minute flight from Israel to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2017.

Adelson gave at least $17 million in political contributions to Gingrich during his 2012 presidential campaign, according to The New York Times.

The Adelsons wrote checks amounting to $20 million during Trump's campaign and donated an extra $5 million for the inauguration festivities, according to ProPublica.

"I would put Adelson at the very top of the list of both access and influence in the Trump administration," Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen told ProPublica in 2018. "I've never seen anything like it before, and I've been studying money in politics for 40 years."

He's given $410 million to the Birthright program that provides funding for trips to Israel for young Jewish adults, according to Forbes.

Ron Reese, a spokesman for Adelson's company, told Fortune that Adelson was experiencing side effects from his medication.

"These side effects have restricted his availability to travel or keep regular office hours," Reese told the magazine in a statement. "They have not, however, prevented him from fulfilling his duties as chairman and CEO."

The Las Vegas Sands' share price rose 8.8% on one week thanks to significant gambling revenue in Macau, according to Forbes.