from Rutgers and a law degree at Villanova before taking over his father’s East Coast trucking business.
Goldberg, a native of New Jersey, received his B.A. Getting Caesars was the highlight of his career.”
“He loved to win, by identifying a project, studying it and then successfully going after it. Elias Ghanem, a Las Vegas physician and one of Goldberg’s closest friends. “He loved to negotiate the good deal,” said Dr. It was, at the time, the largest casino acquisition in the industry. last year for $3 billion, bringing into his fold the grande dame of casinos on the Strip, Caesars Palace, along with other Caesars casinos. His greatest coup, his closest friends said Thursday, was in acquiring Caesars World Inc. While taking pleasure in constructing a half-size replica of the Eiffel Tower in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip, he took even greater pride in delivering the hotel on time and on a tight budget-$785 million-when other new casinos in Las Vegas were costing upward of $1 billion. He gathered his casinos through acquisitions and mergers and built only one from the ground up-Paris-Las Vegas.
