Phil Ruffin

Billionaire James Simons and Reid Hoffman, meanwhile, are among the wealthy donors supporting Biden’s campaign, according to newly released Federal Election Commission filings.

Trump’s lawyers say he doesn’t have enough cash to pay his legal penalties. Trump says otherwise.

Foreign banks and investors in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, billionaire pals in the U.S., and a few banks not registered in New York are some of the more likely lenders to Trump.

The new filing indicates Trump and his allies began running into financial issues associated with his mounting legal issues years before he was criminally indicted.

Joe Biden picked up contributions from new donors like Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang and Palantir chief Alex Karp. Meanwhile, old pals of Donald Trump, like Phil Ruffin and Andy Beal, sent his reelection committees big checks.

The number of people visiting Las Vegas is down 57% since last year, but locals are leading a rebound.

The media billionaire has always been a risk-taker—from HSN to Expedia to Tinder. Now, he’s rolling the dice on MGM’s ability to attract gamblers online.

The owner of Las Vegas’ Treasure Island and Donald Trump’s best friend, says he has enough cash to keep his casinos closed for 20 years. But he’d rather gamble on a new venture.

Ruffin, a friend of President Trump, snaps up Circus Circus casino and 102 prime acres of Las Vegas land for $825 million.

   

“We had a great suite,” said Trump's business partner Phil Ruffin. “It wasn’t worth $18,000 a night.”

Donald Trump famously failed in Atlantic City, but he's scored big in Vegas, courtesy of his partner, billionaire Phil Ruffin--who is taking steps to open a new Trump casino there.

  Most of Trump’s “partners” are more like customers, who pay to put the president’s name on properties and then give him a percentage of revenues. The only person whom Trump has actually invested alongside in a Trump-branded property? Phil Ruffin. Trump invested more than $50 million into the project, which includes [...]

Fellow billionaire and man-about-Vegas Phil Ruffin remembers his longtime friend and occasional sparring partner.

A private tour of Phil Ruffin's Boeing 737.

We play 20 questions with this billionaire.