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Phil Ruffin Biography
Phil Ruffin (Full name- Phillip Gene Ruffin) is an American businessman who was born on March 14, 1935, Potter County, Texas, USA. He owns the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, in addition to a number of other enterprises including hotels, casinos, greyhound racing tracks, convenience stores, oil production, real estate, and the world’s largest manufacturer of hand trucks.
Ruffin is also a business partner of Donald Trump, with whom he co-owns the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Ruffin now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada after residing for many years in Wichita, Kansas.
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Ruffin is media shy and as such his reputation is one of shying away from press coverage and publicity. As a result, many details of his life are not well-documented. Ruffin is currently married to his third wife.
Phil Ruffin’s first wife was Mary Louise Miller, they were married and divorced. He then ,married his second wife, Lynne Ruffin but they later divorced and she remarried. The two had three children: Daughter Michelle Ruffin-Stein who runs the Wichita Marriott which he owns; son Chris Ruffin who runs Wichita Hyatt which he owns; and son Phil Ruffin Jr. who runs Harper Trucks Inc. a hand truck manufacturer.
At the age of 72 on January 6, 2008, Phil Ruffin married the then-26-year-old supermodel and Miss Ukraine 2004 title holder Oleksandra Nikolayenko. Together, they have two children: Richard William Ruffin (born April 2010) and daughter Malena (born 2013). Ruffin funded “an organic food and learning initiative” at the Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain, which his two youngest children attend.
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Ruffin was born to Blanche (née Cohlmia) and Roy J. Ruffin in Potter County near Amarillo, Texas. He is of Lebanese descent and his family’s surname was originally Rufan. Phil Ruffin was raised in Wichita, Kansas where his father had a grocery store. He has four siblings: Elaine Ruffin Nemer, Roy Ruffin Jr., Pat Ruffin, and Pam Ruffin.
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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.
Ruffin started out selling hamburgers with his friends, then used the profits to buy convenience stores. He then expanded into real estate: strip malls, office parks, and hotels, including Marriotts in Alabama, California and the Bahamas.
Phil Ruffin bought the New Frontier Hotel & Casino in 1998, 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. Ruffin’s estimated net worth is $2.7 billion. On the Forbes 2018 list of the world’s billionaires, he was ranked #877.
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Ruffin owns a Bombardier Global 5000 private jet. Trump flew on Ruffin’s private jet to Moscow in 2013 for the Trump-owned Miss Universe Pageant. He also loaned Trump his jet on August 31, 2016, on a trip to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Ruffin and Trump first met when Ruffin traveled to Trump Towers to talk about the possibility of adding a Trump-branded hotel to his Treasure Island casino on the Las Vegas Strip in the early 2000s. Although that particular deal never worked out, Ruffin did end up purchasing a half-ownership stake in the Trump International Tower in Chicago, Illinois. He trusts Trump and has had a pleasant experience being in business with him over the years.
Ruffin and Trump clicked from the moment they met, developing a strong friendship. Trump was the best man in Ruffin’s most recent wedding in 2006, and Ruffin was a huge supporter of Trump during his presidential campaign. The two continue to get together on a regular basis and recently had lunch at the White House just to catch up. Phil Ruffin also owns 50% of the Trump International Las Vegas hotel alongside friend Donald Trump.
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U.S. President Donald Trump was the best man at Ruffin’s wedding to Oleksandra Nikolayenko in 2006.
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