Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Inside Trump Tower


The Skyscraper Where Trump Is Already King


By Max Abelson, Jesse Drucker and Zachary R. Mider

If Donald Trump loses next month, he’ll come home to a building 11 times bigger than the White House. If he wins, anyone who wonders how the political rookie might lead the U.S. has to look no further than the domain he already rules.

Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue is where Trump made his mark in New York, filmed his reality TV show, works at a desk surrounded by pictures of himself and lives in a marbled triplex penthouse. It’s where he launched his presidential campaign and where he retreated after his boasts about grabbing women were leaked. The shiny skyscraper, 10 stories shorter than Trump claims, is a monument to the man’s bronzed and exaggerated style.

His firm manages the tower that gangsters, gamblers, celebrities and billionaires have called home. And he helped search for and screen some of his neighbors. A directory assembled by Bloomberg News from hundreds of records and more than two dozen interviews provides a map to Trump’s life. Michael Jackson, Johnny Carson and Liberace all lived in the building. Trump SoHo co-developer Felix Sater worked on the 24th floor after going to prison a decade earlier for stabbing a man in the face with a broken margarita glass. Joseph Weichselbaum, whose helicopter company flew high rollers to Trump casinos, lived here after serving time for cocaine trafficking. Paul Manafort, who quit as Trump’s campaign chairman amid controversy over his work for Ukraine’s ousted president, owns a condo on the 43rd floor. 

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Source: Bloomberg (via The Empire Report)

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