Donald Trump purchases the Miss Universe Organization, including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants, from ITT Corp and Madison Square Garden. This acquisition establishes infrastructure later used for alleged exploitation patterns. Trump would later admit judges were too focused on intelligence, …
Jeffrey Epstein attended Donald Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples on December 20, 1993, at New York’s Plaza Hotel. CNN’s KFile discovered photos showing Epstein among the 1,000 guests, including one with Howard Stern, Robin Leach, and Swedish model Cecilia Nord.
The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, the iconic luxury property Trump had purchased in 1988 for $407.5 million, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 1992 under the weight of over $550 million in debt. Trump had financed the purchase almost entirely with borrowed money, and the …
Trump Castle and Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City both filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 9, 1992, marking Trump’s second and third casino bankruptcies in less than a year. Trump Castle faced $338 million in bond debt it could not service, while Trump Plaza was …
Donald Trump’s Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 1991, just over one year after its lavish April 1990 opening. The casino, which Trump had called “the eighth wonder of the world,” was buried under nearly $3 billion in debt, …
New Jersey casino regulators fined Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000—at the time one of the largest civil rights penalties ever imposed on an Atlantic City casino—for systematically removing Black employees and women from craps tables to accommodate the racist demands of Robert LiButti, a …
Between 1991 and 2009, Donald Trump’s hotel and casino businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six times, establishing a clear pattern: borrow heavily using high-interest debt and other people’s money, operate businesses unprofitably or make unrealistic revenue projections, …
Two weeks after five Black and Latino teenagers were arrested for the brutal rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park, Donald Trump spent $85,000 to place full-page advertisements in four major New York newspapers calling for their execution. The ads, which appeared in The New York Times, New …
Just three years after settling the landmark housing discrimination case with a court-supervised consent decree, the Department of Justice returned to federal court with new allegations: the Trump Organization had violated the settlement terms and continued systematic discrimination against Black …
After nearly two years of aggressive legal combat, Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump signed a consent decree settling the Department of Justice’s landmark housing discrimination lawsuit. The settlement included the standard legal disclaimer that it was “in no way an admission” …
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a major civil rights lawsuit against Donald Trump, his father Fred Trump, and their real estate company, Trump Management Inc., for systematic racial discrimination in housing. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, …