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- Name: PHIL RUFFIN
- English name: PHIL RUFFIN
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Description: 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. now it's worth twice as much. his first job was working at a w.t. grant department store, where he once was tasked with repossessing a monkey a customer didn't pay for.
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