Stanley Ho, the Macao casino tycoon who was considered the father of modern gambling in China, died Tuesday in Hong Kong. He was 98.
Ho’s long and eventful life tracked the ebb and flow of southern China’s fortunes.
“Macao treated me so well. I went there with 10 dollars in my pocket and became a millionaire before the age of 20,” Ho said. Through his love of the tango and the cha-cha, Ho met Leong, a trained dancer and former ballroom dancing instructor. Allegations of organized crime dogged Ho for years, most recently in a 2010 report by the New Jersey gaming commission that accused him of letting Chinese criminal gangs, or triads, prosper inside his casinos during the 1990s. He dismissed such allegations.
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