Phil Ruffin
About Phil Ruffin
Phil Ruffin owns the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino plus 50% of the Trump International Las Vegas hotel alongside friend Donald Trump.
Son of a grocer, Ruffin dropped out of college to sell hamburgers with his buddies, then used the profits to buy convenience stores.
From there he expanded into real estate: strip malls, office parks and hotels, including Marriotts in Alabama, California and the Bahamas.
In 1998 he bought the New Frontier Hotel & Casino for $165 million; he sold it for $1.2 billion in 2007 to Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva.
He bought Treasure Island from MGM in 2009, amid the great recession, for $775 million.
In 2019, Ruffin bought Circus Circus and the Las Vegas Festival Grounds from MGM for $825 million.
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03/17/35 (age 89)Number of children
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Drop Out, Wichita State UniversitySelf-made
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Donald Trump was the best man at Ruffin's 2008 wedding to his wife Oleksandra, a former Miss Ukraine.
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