Penthouse did oppo research on Trump in 1990 to blackmail him
http://articles.philly.com/1990-05-16/news/25888833_1_donald-trump-al-glasgow-casino-site
ATLANTIC CITY — Penthouse Magazine threatened to expose Donald Trump as a womanizer unless he stopped trying to block its $40 million deal two years ago to sell its abandoned casino site to a Trump rival, the Sands Hotel & Casino, according to court documents here.
The documents were filed by the Sands as part of an antitrust suit it has brought in Atlantic County against Trump. The suit contends that Trump tried to eliminate a prospective competitor by keeping the Sands from buying the casino site. The site is at the center of the Boardwalk, between Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino and Caesars Atlantic City Hotel-Casino, the prime commercial real estate site in Atlantic City.
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Two state police intelligence detectives invited by Glasgow monitored the conversation from the adjoining booth but did not tape-record it, according to sources close to the situation.
Glasgow, according to court records, wrote memos following this meeting, held at Orsatti's Restaurant in Atlantic City, and at least 13 other conversations he had between April and August 1988 with Myerson and other Penthouse representatives. The memos were sent to Steve Hyde, who was then Trump's gaming chief and who was later killed in a helicopter crash, and to the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. The Sands declined to say how it had acquired those memos.
In one of them, put in the court record by the Sands, Glasgow wrote
that Myerson "implied that Penthouse was prepared to do an expose on Trump
if he tried to stand in their way by appealing and dragging out zoning
approvals. . . . "
Myerson, Glasgow wrote, asked for derogatory information on Trump. Glasgow said he gave no reply. Then, Glasgow wrote, Myerson made "certain innuendoes about Trump's personal life and to be more specific they were as follows:
" 'Check out the fourth floor at the St. Moritz. . . .'
"All the implications at this time (were) about girlfriends," Glasgow wrote.
"Myerson asked me how do I think Donald's wife (Ivana) would take all of this . . . and he asked me whether I was aware that there were community property rights in New York even though everything was in Donald's name."
According to published reports, Marla Maples, the woman linked to the developer in the Trump divorce case, lived in the St. Moritz Hotel in Manhattan in 1988, when Trump owned it. Donald Trump and Maples have publicly denied having an affair.
Atlantic City casino real estate turf war between pornographer and mentally unstable, serial sexual assaulter.
Oh boy. I have a feeling the "womanizer" bit is understating what they have on him--casino developers cheating on their wives isn't a story. Something else has to be.
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