The mystery is finally solved. Or is it?
It was casino magnate Sheldon Adelson who paid $140 million for The Las Vegas Review-Journal, the largest daily newspaper in Nevada, Fortune reported on Wednesday, quoting sources familiar with the situation.
A separate report from the Review Journal outed Adelson’s son-in-law Patrick Dumont as the orchestrator of the newspaper purchase. According to the report, Dumont—listed as Las Vegas Sands Corp’s senior VP of finance and strategy—pieced the deal together “at the behest of his father-in-law.”
The 41-year-old lawyer married Sivan Ochshorn, daughter of Adelson’s wife from a previous marriage, in 2009. Ochshorn-Dumont is listed as the owner and agent of Adelson’s Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom.