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shielded by his security: Barrett, Trump, 19.
moved to Guatemala: Michael Gross, “Marla Maples: Tabloid Life,” New York, April 6, 1998.
$10 million check: Jay Goldberg interview with Washington Post, April 2016.
took his coat: Ibid.
“tremendous fights”: Trump, on Oprah, April 25, 1988.
“give a wife responsibility”: Trump with Bohner, Comeback, 137–38.
“less than perfection”: Trump and Leerhsen, Surviving at the Top, 47.
“see it lasting”: Interview with Goldberg.
“going out in public”: Gross, “Marla Maples.”
“job called for”: “Marla Maples Opens Up,” People, April 19, 2016.
a talent component: Elizabeth Sporkin, “Ooh-la-la Marla!,” People, March 5, 1990.
“had this connection”: Gross, “Marla Maples.”
“very, very gorgeous”: Marla Maples interview with Diane Sawyer, Primetime Live, ABC, April 19, 1990.
“mountains of Reddi-wip”: Maureen Orth, “Talking to Marla Maples,” Vanity Fair, 1990.
diamond ring: James Barron, “The Donald Is to Marry!,” New York Times, July 4, 1991. Maples auctioned off the ring in 2000.
“interfere with his business”: Maples on Today, NBC, July 26, 1993.
A thousand guests: Todd S. Purdum, “In This Plaza, I Thee Wed,” New York Times, December 18, 1993.
“relationship can work”: Megan French, “O. J. Simpson Made Awkward Comment at Donald Trump’s 1993 Wedding to Marla Maples Months before His Arrest: Watch,” Us, April 6, 2016.
“give it four months”: Georgia Dullea, “It’s a Wedding Blitz for Trump and Maples,” New York Times, December 21, 1993.
“wasn’t a wet eye”: Ibid.
the caviar alone: Trump with Bohner, Comeback, 140.
“ ‘What the hell’ ”: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 7.
entourage of relatives: Interview with Goldberg.
“critically wrong”: Trump with Bohner, Comeback, 210.
received $5 million: Bruce Weber, “Donald and Marla Are Headed for Divestiture,” New York Times, May 3, 1997.
“eye on the clock”: Interview with Goldberg.
“the hottest club”: Trump with Schwartz, Art of the Deal (2015), 94–95.
erect a hideous home: Interview with Trump, November 2015.
gold-plated bathroom sinks: Mary Jordan and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Inside Trump’s Palm Beach Castle and His 30-Year Fight to Win Over the Locals,” Washington Post, November 14, 2015. Trump made $15.6 million from Mar-a-Lago in 2014, according to financial disclosures he filed as part of his presidential campaign.
restrictions lifted: Ibid.
“ ‘how cool are we?’ ”: Roger Stone interview, April 4, 2016.
“What I do is successful because of the aesthetics”: Bob Morris, “A Night Out With: Donald J. Trump; Previewing the States of Beauty,” New York Times, January 10, 1999.
raised Trump’s international profile: During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump occasionally claimed to have a strong familiarity with Russia because he had held a “major event in Russia”—the Miss Universe contest, which he called a “big, big, incredible event.”
“mix it up”: Trump with Bohner, Comeback, 96.
breach of contract: Matt Viser, “The Pageant of His Dreams,” Boston Globe, April 17, 2016.
“When we got to the dinner table”: Ibid.
“kissed, fondled, and restrained”: Ibid.
obsessed with Trump: Ibid.
eliminated black women: Ibid.
“pawn in a lawsuit”: Trump attorney Michael Cohen, quoted in Rachel Stockman, “Inside the $125 Million Donald Trump Sexual Assault Lawsuit,” LawNewz, February 23, 2016.
dropped her case: Ibid. Harth said in 2016 that she considers Trump a friend and she supported his campaign for president.
“triple crown of beauty”: Trump with Bohner, Comeback, 96.
paid $10 million: Ibid., 102.
only $2 million: Interview with Mary Jordan, April 2016.
“The bathing suits got smaller”: Judy Bachrach, “What’s Behind Donald Trump’s Obsession with Beauty Pageants?,” Vanity Fair, January 13, 2016.
promoted women: Reidy interview with Frances Stead Sellers, May 2016.
“When you win a beauty pageant”: “Weight of the World,” People, February 10, 1997.
“hamster on a wheel”: Alicia Machado interview with Janell Ross, April 30, 2016.
“God, what problems”: Trump with Bohner, Comeback, 106.
“leaving the discards”: Carrie Prejean, Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2009), 68. After news reports in 2016 recounted Prejean’s stories about Trump that had appeared in her book, Prejean gave several interviews in which she praised Trump, saying, for example, “I have nothing but positive things to say about Donald Trump.”
“It’s about beauty”: Trump interview with Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish, June 9, 2016.
Trump Models Inc.: Kate Kelly, “Fashion Café’s Tommaso Buti Schemes to Skim Rent from Guccis,” Observer, April 5, 1999.
“inconsequential agency”: James Scully interview with Washington Post, April 2016.
“a way to funnel”: Ibid.
day-to-day management: Interview with Jim Dowd, who ran a public relations firm where he represented Trump, May 2016.
“ ‘Hey, Donald’ ”: John Bassignani interview with Frances Stead Sellers, May 4, 2016.
a rollicking patter: Mary Jordan, “From Playboy to President? Trump’s Past Crude Sex Talk Collides with His White House Bid,” Washington Post, May 10, 2016.
“Her boob job”: Stern show quotations from Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott, “Donald Trump Said a Lot of Gross Things about Women on ‘Howard Stern,’ ” BuzzFeed, February 24, 2016.
flower arrangements: Josh Glancy, “Mogul Sought Trophy Wife,” Sunday Times (London), August 16, 2015. British journalist Selina Scott, who knew the princess, recalled Diana saying of Trump, “He gives me the creeps.”
“one hundred stitches”: Trump added that he would stay with her even if she was disfigured.
“speak romantically”: Interview with Goldberg.
“I’d see him chatting”: Kate Bohner interview with Mary Jordan, April 20, 2015.
“much less glamorous”: Trump interview with Mary Jordan, April 2016.
“married to my business”: Jonathan Van Meter, “Did Their Father Really Know Best?,” New York, December 13, 2004.
“smart to be shallow”: Donald J. Trump with Meredith McIver, Trump: Think Like a Billionaire (New York: Random House, 2004), xvii–xxiii.
“are all wrecks”: Marie Brenner, “After the Gold Rush,” Vanity Fair, September 1990.
“develop as a kid”: Trump children interviews by Dan Zak, Washington Post, April 2016.
“very sensational”: Susan Crawford interview with Frances Stead Sellers, May 16, 2016.
“confidentiality agreement”: Joseph P. Fried, “Tell-All Book on Trump Won’t Be Telling It All,” New York Times, February 24, 2002.
threatened to terminate: Frederick M. Winship, “Trump Ends Ivana’s Alimony over TV Interview,” UPI, May 14, 1991.
“written consent”: Ibid.
“we’re friendly”: Dana Schuster, “Ivana Trump on How She Advises Donald—and Those Hands,” New York Post, April 3, 2016.
CHAPTER 10: A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN
gathered in New Orleans: USFL owners’ meeting notes from January 18, 1984.
Oklahoma oil baron: Paul Domowitch, “USFL Expects to Cash In on Trump,” Philadelphia Daily News, November 2, 1983.
a former US ambassador: “Marvin Warner, 82, Figure in S&L Debacle,” New York Times, April 13, 2002.
ring a gong: Charles Leerhsen, “USFL’s New Game Plan,” Newsweek, March 19, 1984.
Oldenburg had arrived: Jim Byrne, The $1 League: The Rise and Fal
l of the USFL (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1986), 103–4, 119.
didn’t appreciate their complaints: Ibid., 103.
“given the league credibility”: USFL owners’ meeting notes from January 18, 1984.
average NFL team: Domowitch, “USFL Expects to Cash In.”
the entire USFL: Paul Attner, “USFL Upbeat, but Sees Tougher Sell,” Washington Post, February 24, 1984.
“I don’t want to be a loser”: USFL owners’ meeting notes from January 18, 1984.
“grand plan for the USFL”: Letter from Myles Tanenbaum to Tad Taube, January 27, 1984.
baseball games in class: Peter Brant interview with Michael Miller, April 2016.
an ankle injury sidelined him: Harry Hurt III, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 77–78.
New York Mets: Robert Masello, “The Trump Card,” Town & Country, 1983.
keep the team in Cleveland: Brent Larkin, “Donald Trump’s Failed Bid to Buy the Cleveland Indians,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 8, 2015.
preliminary talks with Robert Irsay: Michael O’Donnell, “USFL Must Win or Fold: Trump,” Chicago Tribune, June 24, 1986.
$6 million: Dave Goldberg, “Monday, AM Cycle,” Associated Press, June 23, 1986.
“known to the world as a loser”: Ira Berkow, “Trump Building the Generals in His Own Style,” New York Times, January 1, 1984.
three-year contract: Joe Nocera, “Donald Trump’s Less-Than-Artful Failure in Pro Football,” New York Times, February 19, 2016.
Shula made about $450,000: Edwin Pope, “Shula’s Future? Nobody Knows,” Miami Herald, October 23, 1983.
“Money is one thing, gold is another”: Larry Dorman, “Don Shula Won’t Join USFL Club,” Miami Herald, October 25, 1983.
Brian Sipe: Ben Terris, “And Then There Was the Time Donald Trump Bought a Football Team . . . ,” Washington Post, October 19, 2015.
“there’s a squib in the papers”: Berkow, “Trump Building the Generals.”
“Maybe we oughta sign Taylor”: Jim Gould interview with Will Hobson, Washington Post, April 2016.
“Mr. Taylor, please hold for Mr. Trump”: “How Donald Trump Destroyed a Football League,” Esquire, January 13, 2016.
“visionary builder”: Berkow, “Trump Building the Generals.”
“his money where his mouth was”: “How Donald Trump Destroyed a Football League.”
Technically, Taylor bought himself out of the contract: Gerald Eskenazi, “Taylor Buys Out Generals’ Pact,” New York Times, January 18, 1984.
“brilliant publicity stunt”: “How Donald Trump Destroyed a Football League.”
“weak ownership”: Byrne, $1 League, 127.
“prominent USFL executives”: Ibid., 137–41.
who that was: Ibid., 138.
“You Just Sit There”: Ibid., 141–43.
“Trump nerve”: Ibid., 148, 163.
Bassett owned the Tampa Bay Bandits: “John F. Bassett, 47, Is Dead; Owner of Sports Franchises,” Associated Press, May 15, 1986.
sternly worded letter: Matt Bonesteel, “Donald Trump Was Such a USFL Bully That a Fellow Owner Threatened to Punch Him,” Washington Post, March 3, 2016.
Sharon Patrick: Byrne, $1 League, 174, 186–87.
consultant couldn’t foresee happening: Ibid.
a move to the fall: McKinsey & Company report, USFL internal documents.
“bullshit”: Byrne, $1 League, 197–98, 204.
“fall of 1986”: Greg Cote, “USFL Moving to Fall in ’86,” Miami Herald, August 23, 1984.
“Joe Namath of the USFL”: Byrne, $1 League, 256–57.
take it easy on Flutie: “Owner Says Trump Asked to ‘Take It Easy’ on Flutie,” Miami Herald, March 17, 1985.
John Barron, the fictitious: Byrne, $1 League, 293.
Simmons got a message: Ibid., 224.
prenuptial agreement with Ivana: Hurt III, Lost Tycoon (1993), 144.
he didn’t remember seeing: Ben Terris, “Does Donald Trump Cheat at Golf?,” Washington Post, September 4, 2015.
“You are going to die young”: O’Donnell and Rutherford, Trumped!, 171.
phony scores: Terris, “Does Donald Trump Cheat?”
Tour de Trump: Kevin Hogan, “The Strange Tale of Donald Trump’s 1989 Biking Extravaganza: Inside the Making of the Tour de Trump,” Politico, April 10, 2016.
beating bids from: Joe Weinert, “Offshore Race Set for A.C. Trump Wins Rights to Championships,” Press of Atlantic City, November 19, 1988.
break his back: Joe Weinert, “Atlantic Batters Powerboats: Deep-V’s Outrun Cats in Heavy Seas,” Press of Atlantic City, October 18, 1989.
flipped over: Joe Weinert, “Boat Flips off A.C.,” Press of Atlantic City, October 23, 1989.
“a truly cynical financial standpoint”: Angus Phillips, “Rain Makes Trump’s Mouth Water,” Washington Post, October 21, 1989.
$11 million to host: Hurt III, Lost Tycoon (1993), 201–4.
“Thank you, Mr. Trump”: Ibid.
Desiree Washington: Russ Choma, “The Time Donald Trump Tried to Get Mike Tyson out of Going to Prison for Rape,” Mother Jones, December 2015.
championship belt: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 322.
Courtroom 318: Richard Hoffer, “USFL Awarded Only $3 in Antitrust Decision: Jury Finds NFL Guilty on One of Nine Counts,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 1986.
reeked of his omnipresent cigars: Randy Harvey, “Whom Do You Trust in This Antitrust Case?,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1986.
slide show: NFL internal documents, USFL v. NFL court records.
“the plague”: Donald Trump testimony, USFL v. NFL court records.
“not even on my Christmas card list”: Pete Rozelle testimony, USFL v. NFL court records.
all Trump’s idea: John Bassett deposition testimony, USFL v. NFL court records.
there was an even split: Patricia Sibilia interview with Will Hobson, April 2016.
“cheap way in”: Ibid.
“We’re dead”: Dave Goldberg, “Only Token Damages Against NFL in Antitrust Suit by Rival League,” Associated Press, July 29, 1986.
“strike out a lot”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 48.
“single key miscalculation”: Ibid., 276.
His first national: Barrett, Trump, 342.
“self-aggrandizement, narcissism”: Michael Tollin interview with Will Hobson, April 2016.
“we had a great lawsuit”: Donald Trump in Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?, ESPN Productions, 2009.
an estimated $22 million: Blair, Trumps, 333.
an estimated $4 billion: Mike Ozanian, “The Most Valuable Teams in the NFL,” Forbes, September 15, 2015.
ultimately bowed out: Jeff Horwitz, “Donald Trump: No White House Run If He’d Bought the Buffalo Bills,” Associated Press, February 7, 2016.
“more exciting”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 11: THE GREAT UNRAVELING
James Brown’s “I Feel Good”: All material in this paragraph and other parts of this section from Doug Cox, Joe Serpente, and Jeffrey Ludwig interviews with Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, April 2016.
Trump Castle Hotel & Casino: New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Gaming Enforcement, “Preliminary Report on the Financial Condition of the Donald J. Trump Organization Post-restructuring,” August 13, 1990, 18.
negative $295 million: Report on Trump Organization finances, Kenneth Leventhal & Co., June 14, 1990.
“Castle Bond”: “Trump Skips Payment on Castle Bond,” Press of Atlantic City, June 16, 1990.
needlepoint of Trump’s visage: “Trump Honored at Birthday Rally,” United Press International, June 16, 1990.
“largest surprise is yet to come”: Henry Stern, “Boardwalk Birthday Party for Trump Day After Missed Bond Payment,” Associated Press, June 17, 1990.
“Bought the Plaza”: “Why I Bought the Plaza,” advertisement in New York magazine, September 12, 1988.
set in the Plaza: Theplazany.com/history/.
“in the world”: “Why I Bought the Plaza.”
Trump had intended: Howard Kurtz, “Loves Won and Lost; The Trump Divorce: Day 2,” Washington Post, February 14, 1990; and David W. Dunlap, “Trumps Plan to Revamp the Plaza in a Big Way,” New York Times, December 20, 1988.
so furious: Barbara Res interview with Drew Harwell, Washington Post, March 31, 2016.
next-highest bid: Interviews with Robert McSween and another banker familiar with the transaction, who requested anonymity, with Jerry Markon, Washington Post, April 2016.
a risky move: Report on Trump Organization finances, Kenneth Leventhal & Co., Schedule II, June 14, 1990.
hotel was charging: Hurt III, Lost Tycoon (1993), 208.
perceived as anti-Japanese: Yumiko Ono, “Trump’s Condos Lose Their Luster for Tokyo Buyers,” Wall Street Journal, June 22, 1990.
to be repainted: Bruce R. Nobles and Ray Belz interviews with Jerry Markon, Washington Post, April 2016.
make the purchase: Kenneth Leventhal & Co. report, June 14, 1990.
told them to push harder: Interview with Nobles.
were redeemed: Ibid.
and an engineer: Ibid.
“severe financial distress”: Division of Gaming Enforcement, “Preliminary Report.”
Alexander’s department store: Ibid.
credit at Bankers Trust: Interviews with Alan Pomerantz, Robert McSween, and a third banker familiar with the negotiations with Jerry Markon, Washington Post, April 2016.
“absolutely berserk”: Donald Trump interview with Amy Goldstein and Jerry Markon, Washington Post, May 18, 2016.
banks in Britain, Germany, and Japan: Interviews with bankers, including Alan Pomerantz and Robert McSween, with Jerry Markon, Washington Post, April 2016.
had been his idea: Trump interview with Goldstein and Markon.
sit down with Trump: Robert McSween and other bankers’ interviews with Jerry Markon, Washington Post, April 2016.
$3.2 billion debt: Memo from Casino Control Commission Financial Evaluation Unit on Trump’s petition regarding his casinos, August 16, 1990.
who represented Citibank: Interview with Pomerantz.
“I resign”: O’Donnell and Rutherford, Trumped!, 326. As word spread that O’Donnell planned to write a memoir of his experiences, titled Trumped!, a Trump lawyer visited O’Donnell to express displeasure. O’Donnell later wrote that the lawyer, Joseph Fusco, warned him that Trump would “look for anything he can to discredit you.” Fusco declined comment. O’Donnell and Rutherford, Trumped!, 333–34.