Stanley Ho Wives

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Stanley Ho is a business magnate based in Macau and Hong Kong. As per Forbes, his estimated net worth was about $3.1 billion in 2014. Forbes listed him as the 13^th richest person in Hong Kong and the richest in Macau. The billionaire stakeholder of SJM Holdings Ltd. (880), the largest casino company in Asia, is also one of the wealthiest persons in Asia.

Ho made his fortune over a period of 40 years after the colonial regime in Macau gave him and his partners a monopoly in gambling in 1962. His vice-like grip on the industry got him the nickname ‘The King of Gambling.’ The monopoly was not renewed in 2001 and subsequently licenses were given by Macau to rival companies like Wynn Resorts Ltd owned by Steve Wynn and Las Vegas Sands Corp. owned by Sheldon Adelson. It may be noted that the gambling revenue generated at the Macau casinos is nearly 4 times than that generated at Las Vegas.

His love life was like a soap opera. (Hongkong May, 26) Hong Kong-Macau business magnate, investor, and philanthropist Stanley Ho Hung-sun has died at the age of 98. Stanley was born in 1921 in Guangzhou. He had 4 wives and 17 children.

A rift has surfaced among gaming magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun's next of kin over his two family trusts. Deborah Ho, a daughter of the tycoon's deceased first wife Clementina Leitao, triggered a.
Stanley Ho is known as “The King of Gambling”. He’s responsible for the rise of Macau as a gambling haven. He is also Macau’s wealthiest person and among the richest in Asia. Stanley Ho has four wives and seventeen children in total, and Mario Ho is the youngest living son. More about Mario Ho.

In addition to the gambling industry, Ho has several real estate holdings in Macau as well as Hong Kong. His other business interests include tourism, entertainment, aviation, shipping, and banking. It is believed that nearly a quarter of the Macau workforce is employed by Ho’s enterprises.

Stanley Ho also has investments all over the world, including mainland China, North Korea, Portugal, Vietnam, Mozambique, the Philippines, East Timor, and Indonesia. The entrepreneur and industrialist has also held numerous important positions in varied companies in Macau and Hong Kong. His statements and opinions on commercial development and real estate in Hong Kong can significantly alter the markets.

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Of late, Stanley was in litigation with Winnie Ho, his sister, about the title rights of the Macau casino. He was also involved in lawsuits against his daughters Daisy Ho and Pansy Ho as well as other family members with regards to illegal transfer of his assets. In July 2009, he had a stroke and a long recovery period followed. Finally in January 2011, after confusing and hotly disputed litigation, Ho devolved his shareholding amongst his wives and children.

The Personal Life of Stanley Ho – Wife, Children

Stanley Ho was born on November 25, 1921, into a well-to-do family. His father was Ho Sai Kwong and his grandfather was Ho Fook, who was Robert Hotung’s brother. Ho had 12 siblings.

Ho attended Queen’s College in Hong Kong and studied in Class D, which as per the prevalent Hong Kong Class System, was the lowest class level due to substandard academic results. He soon realized that education was the only way to improve his social standing. He then studied hard and got a scholarship to the University of Hong Kong. The outbreak of WW II cut short his education. He left Hong Kong and fled to Macau in 1942 to escape Japanese persecution.

Polygamy was legal in Hong Kong till 1971. Ho fathered 17 children from 4 women. He refers to the mothers of his children as his wives. Ho married Clementina Leitão, his first wife, in 1942. Her father was the only notary public in Macau at that time. Ho and Leitão had 4 children. Ho married his second wife Lucina Laam King-ying in 1962, after courting her through the late 50s. In 1973, Leitão had a motor accident. This led to memory loss and subsequent need of constant care. One of the nurses who cared for her was Ina Chan. She became the third ‘wife’ of Ho and they had 3 children. Leitão passed away in 2004. Angela Leong On-kei, whom Stanley Ho met at a private ball in 1988, became his 4^th wife. They had 5 children.

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Ho purchased a horse’s head bronze sculpture belonging to the Qing dynasty, and which was originally placed at the Old Summer Palace, for about $8.84 million. He then donated it to the Chinese government in 2007.

In July 2009, Ho suffered from a stroke and a subsequent fall which landed him in the hospital for several months. After undergoing rehabilitation at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Ho finally returned home in March 2010. Since then he has been confined to a wheelchair.

The Career of Stanley Ho

Ho began his career as a clerk at an import export company in Macau. He later became a partner at this Japanese-owned firm. During WW II, Ho smuggled luxury items from Macau to China and thus made his initial fortune. He used this money to start a construction firm and a kerosene company in 1943. The rapid growth of real estate development in Hong Kong in the following years allowed his fortune to grow considerably.

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In the 60s, Ho along with Yip Hon, Henry Fok, and Teddy Yip as his partners bid for the Macau casino franchises. They bid high and assured to develop the infrastructure as well as promote tourism. They won the tender by defeating the Fu family, the longtime barons of the Macau casinos. The partnership company became a runaway success and was renamed as STDM in 1961. Ho later ventured into a variety of businesses, including control of the Macau Jockey Club; SLOT, the first basketball and football lottery in Asia; and the launch of high-speed jetfoils via holding company Shun Tak Holdings Ltd, a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed company.

Controversy: The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and the Canadian Government has reported Ho to have had links with the Chinese organized mafia.

Awards: Ho is the first living resident of Macau to have a street named after him. He was appointed as O.B.E. in 1990. He was awarded the ‘Great Cross of the Order of Prince Henrique’ by the Portuguese government in 1995.

With the passing of casino magnate Stanley Ho, his wives and kids have been thrust back into the spotlight (not like they have ever been out of it) as the issue of how his vast inheritance will be divided among his family has become a major talking point.

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Stanley and Clementina were quite the lookers in their younger days
While his second, third and fourth wives and their kids are still very much in the public eye, little is known about the family he had with his first wife, Clementina Angela Leitao, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 80.
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Their first child, Jane, was born in 1947. She read law in England and was hailed as a capable career woman. She married Siu Pak Shing, who's the heir of a wealthy funeral business in Hongkong, but their marriage ended in divorce in 1981. Jane passed away in 2014 at the age of 67 after years of suffering from Churg-Strauss syndrome, a rare disease that affects one's blood vessels. She is survived by her daughter Ringo Siu.
Robert was born a year after Jane and was regarded as the heir to his father's casino empire. Sadly, Robert and his wife, English model Suki Porter, were killed in a car accident in Portugal in 1981. Robert was only 33 then.
Stanley and Clementina were devastated by their son's death and they appointed their youngest daughter Deborah to become the guardian of Robert and Suki's two girls, Faye and Sarah. Sarah, who was three when her parents died, told the South China Morning Post in a 2009 interview that she and her sister were brought up by their grandmother, who split their time between Hongkong and Macau.
In 2006, Sarah founded SHO Fine Jewellery, while Faye was named the honorary president of Anima, the Society for the Protection of Animals in Macau, in 2010. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in 2016, but has successfully battled the cancer into remission.
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Angela (far right) and Deborah (with the buzz cut) with their parents
The couple’s two youngest daughters, Angela, 62, and Deborah, 58, have largely stayed out of the limelight, save for a high-profile spat over money earlier this year.
Angela, who is married to Danish artist Peter Kjaer, is very involved in the arts. She lived in the US for seven years, but eventually returned to Hongkong, where she purchased an art gallery in the California Tower in upscale Lan Kwai Fong. Its opening in 1993 was attended by Stanley himself.
Deborah is known for her trademark buzz cut and androgynous style. She reportedly once told reporters, 'I don't need anyone to woo me, dogs will always have the number spot in my heart.'
In 2000, she went public with her relationship with a female model from Xinjiang named Golly and sources claimed that Stanley was infuriated with her coming out.
She is also reported to have a strong interest in the property market, snapping up a number of high-value houses and buildings in the past years. In 2005, she opened a two-storey foot massage parlour cum hair salon in Central Hongkong. She handed over the reins to her female friend, Liang Caiyi, for reasons not made known to the public.
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Stanley and Clementina's two surviving daughters made headlines earlier this year when Deborah started legal proceedings in the High Court to demand that Angela provide her with legal documents with regards to The Clementina Ho Trust and The Stanley and Clementina Family Trusts.
Angela’s lawyers shot back, saying that Deborah’s claims of being “ill in Macau and poor” were “unfortunately a fabrication as she has received annual distributions on time”. They added that she has received around HK$97mil (S$17.8mil), and Angela blasted her younger sister’s actions as “unnecessary and disruptive”.
Netizens also pointed out that both Angela and Deborah were conspicuously absent from Stanley’s 98th birthday celebration last November. Granddaughters Ringo, Faye and Sarah were also missing from the festivities, sparking questions on whether they have chosen to distance themselves from the Ho family.
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