LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Elaine Wynn, the co-founder of a collection of Las Vegas casinos, has died at 82. The family foundation confirms her passing in a news release just before 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. Ms. Wynn and her former husband, Steve Wynn, started two companies together, Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts.

Elaine Wynn, the woman who built a Las Vegas casino empire alongside her husband, Steve, has died at 82. Wynn died Monday after battling a “brief illness,” a family spokesperson told the Nevada Independent.

Elaine Wynn, the co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts, billionaire philanthropist and art collector and philanthropist, has died. She was 82.