When Michael Jackson was Trump's neighbour. Almost.
Table for two: The future president with his future wife in 2000; (below images) a triptych of understatementImage: Theo Westenberger Archives
During the presidential race, Donald Trump left the campaign trail to give us a guided tour of his three-storey Trump Tower penthouse. He bragged that people have called his Manhattan home the “best apartment ever built” and emphasised its immense size (33,000 square feet) and value (at least $200 million). “I own the top three floors—the whole floor, times three!” He admitted to having once had a neighbour, pointing to a door on the 66th floor. “I leased that little section to Michael Jackson. I knew him better than anybody.”
Image: Scott Frances / OttoThose comments were typical Trump: Boastful and inaccurate. We recently dug up New York City records showing he shares those floors with a neighbour and has only partial ownership, some 10,996 square feet.
Image: Scott Frances / OttoNo Trump spokesperson would comment on any of this, so using the correct square footage, we estimate the president’s pad is worth $64 million, less than a third of his number.(This story appears in the 09 June, 2017 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
