Miriam met Sheldon Adelson at Rockefeller after she went to Rockefeller University on an exchange program, specializing in drug addiction.

The couple's interest in drug rehabilitation stems from the fact that Adelson's son, Mitchell Adelson, died in 2005 to drug overdose involving cocaine and heroin.

[interesting in that drug addiction was Mariam's medical specialty]

The1990s and the period after saw Sheldon’s money soaring and his engagement in politics heightening. Sheldon became famous in 2012 when two $5 million checks were signed for Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign. One was signed by Sheldon himself, but the other was signed by Miriam Adelson his second and final wife whom he married in 1991.

https://meaww.com/sheldon-adelson-dead-how-he-met-wife-miriam-adelson