Sheldon Adelson, the Billionaire Who Bankrupted Me [View all]
The bullyboy of Las Vegas Boulevard is at it again.
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson this week filed another defamation suit against a journalist. This time, The Wall Street Journals Hong Kong-based reporter Kate OKeeffe is the object of his ire. She has been busy probing the depths of Adelsons Macau casino gambit. She also co-bylined a story profiling his litigation battle against the former president of his Macau casino operations, Steven Jacobs.
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I know of what I speak. Adelson sued me into bankruptcy over a brief passage in my 2005 book, Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas. It was an enormously stressful experience that came at the most difficult time in my life.
Although I wouldnt claim to have gained much insight into Adelsons character during the fight, I immediately learned he wasnt shy about hitting you when youre down. On the contrary.
He sued me (and my publisher) while my then-8-year-old daughter Amelia was suffering from brain cancer, which had metastasized to her spine. She was literally fighting for her life. I learned of the impending litigation while at her bedside at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
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