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Miriam Adelson, the owner of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is the reported buyer of much of Cuban's stake in the Mavericks.

The widow of Las Vegas Sands Corp. founder Sheldon Adelson, Miriam Adelson, 78, is the fifth-richest woman in the world, according to Forbes.

The late Sheldon Adelson with his widow, Dr. Miriam Adelson attending the 2016 Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The Adelsons donated

Sheldon Adelson, Baruch Dayan Emet He was the philanthropist they loved to hate Sheldon Adelson spent more on Jewish causes and pro-Israel politicians than anyone in his generation. Liberal Jews never forgave him for it. Modern Jewish history is in no small measure a tale of philanthropy. The image of the wealthy Jew who spends some of his riches on his people has its origins in the pre-Enlightenment era, when prosperous Jewish merchants were called upon to ransom their co-religionists or to buy favor for endangered tribe members from hostile rulers. As Jews began to play a more integral rol...

1,246 shares American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Medicine Faculty buildings at Ariel University in the West Bank, June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90) The death of Jewish-American billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson at the age of 87 drew a flood of eulogies Tuesday, as politicians and other public figures in Israel, the US and elsewhere remembered the powerful political donor and philanthropist as a prominent champion of the bond and alliance between Jerusalem and Washington. Adelson...