newspapers on a street corner to becoming one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs,” it said. The company runs successful resorts in three world markets, including the Venetian and the Palazzo in Las Vegas. Comdex thrived through much of the 1980s under Adelson’s watch before its eventual decline, and the show folded a few years after Adelson and his partners sold it to Softbank in the mid-1990s. Adelson was a top GOP donor, but he disdained talking politics on his company’s quarterly earnings calls. He died four days after Las Vegas Sands announced he was taking immediate medical leave for treatment. Plans for a Las Vegas memorial service will be announced later, said the company. Survivors include his wife, Miriam.