Elaine Wynn, a philanthropist and one of the most successful women among Nevada casino executives, has died. She was 82 years old.
The Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation announced her death on Tuesday. The company did not disclose any further information on her death.
Elaine Wynn’s rise to power and wealth paralleled that of her former husband, Steve Wynn. They were married twice and divorced for the second time in 2010.
She was born Elaine Pascal on April 28, 1942, in New York City, and grew up partly in Miami Beach, where her mother was a homemaker and her father sold package tours for resort hotels. She majored in political science at George Washington University, graduating in 1964.
She met Steve Wynn on a blind date arranged by relatives. They were married in 1963, at the end of her junior year. Steve Wynn had just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He took over and revitalized the family business, a Maryland bingo parlor, which had been foundering because of the untimely illness and death of his father.
