The last of his era. He was a great man. I was lucky to get to hear him speak at the Las Vegas Convention Center in 2002 about his vision for gaming in the 21st century.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/26/b...hnk/index.html
The last of his era. He was a great man. I was lucky to get to hear him speak at the Las Vegas Convention Center in 2002 about his vision for gaming in the 21st century.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/26/b...hnk/index.html
Stanley Ho had 17 children with four different women.
His net worth was $14.9 Billion which is very low considering he owned 20 casinos.
He was also associated with organized crime.
Chinese triads are thriving in Macau.
Stanley Ho, ‘King of Gambling’ Who Built Macau, Dies at 98
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...cau-dies-at-98
Stanley Ho, Who Turned Macau Into a Global Gambling Hub, Dies at 98
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/b...y-ho-dead.html
Damn RIP. How old was he when he fathered Maria Ho?
Interesting story about one of his ex wives and his kids with her being in a constant battle for control of the company, including up until his recent death.
How does a guy have 17 kids? At some point, don't you start marrying women who don't want kids, and then use some form of birth control?
I wonder where Macau would be today if he never were born.
Damn, Interesting life.
Funny, how wiki lists this at the start of his early life section.
“Ho was descended from great-grandfather Charles Henry Maurice Bosman (1839–1892), who was of Dutch Jewish ancestry, and his Chinese mistress Sze Tai (施娣) a local woman of Bao'an (present-day Shenzhen and Hong Kong”
:where is devidee?
I always found him a great poster. Sure, he was flamboyant, but also humble. He could have went by King Stanley, but he didn’t, he simply went by Just Stanley.
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