Adelson vs Pham Nhat Vuong
Las Vegas Sands and Vingroup.
The differences
- Forbes puts Pham Nhat Vuong about $2.8B ahead of Miriam Adelson.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
- Miriam Adelson: through marriage. Pham Nhat Vuong: founded it.
- Miriam Adelson is about 23 years older than Pham Nhat Vuong.
- Miriam Adelson is from United States; Pham Nhat Vuong is from Vietnam.
Put someone else on either side
Side by side
Adelson
Pham Nhat VuongThe money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $31BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- $33.8BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- Not stated
- $30.1BBloomberg, 12 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 71Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- No. 68Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- Billionaire since
- Not stated
- Not stated
Where it came from
- How it started
- Through marriageWidow of Sheldon Adelson, who founded Las Vegas Sands and died in 2021; she and her family own more than half of the company
- Founded itFounded Technocom, the predecessor of Vingroup, in Ukraine in the 1990s, selling Mivina instant noodles
- Main source
- Las Vegas Sands stockBloomberg: her biggest asset is a half-stake in Las Vegas Sands; it also counts the Dallas Mavericks and cash
- Vingroup and VinFast stockBloomberg: his fortune is largely his stakes in the two listed companies
- Companies
- Las Vegas SandsLas Vegas Sands: Majority shareholder with her family
- Vingroup, VinFastVingroup: Founder and chairman; VinFast: CEO until September 2026
- Biggest stake
- Las Vegas Sands52.7% owned
- VinFast97.825% owned
The person
- Born
- 10 Oct 1945Tel Aviv, then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
- 1968Vietnam
- Country
- United StatesLives in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- VietnamLives in Hanoi, Vietnam
- Education
- Graduate degreeMD, Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine; BSc in microbiology and genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Not statedMoscow Geological Prospecting Institute, graduated 1993
- Parents
- Her parents left Poland in the 1930s; her father, Simcha Farbstein, joined a kibbutz before the family settled in Haifa
- Not stated
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not a signer
- Not a signer
- Foundation
- Adelson Family FoundationEstablished in 2007 by Miriam and Sheldon Adelson
- Kind Heart Foundation (Thien Tam)A non-profit set up by Vingroup
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- Not stated
Role and record
- Role now
- OwnerMajority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands and the Dallas Mavericks with her family; publisher of Israel Hayom
- Chair of the boardChairman of Vingroup
- Successor
- Her son-in-law Patrick Dumont became chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands on 1 March 2026
- Pham Nhat Quan Anh succeeded him as CEO of VinFast Global in September 2026; his wife Pham Thu Huong is a Vingroup vice chairwomanNo successor named as Vingroup chairman
- Public office
- None found
- None found
- Legal record
- None found
- None found
