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(32,676 posts)The time Donald Trumps empire took on a stubborn widow and lost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-time-donald-trumps-empire-took-on-a-stubborn-widow--and-lost/2015/09/09/f9cb287e-5660-11e5-b8c9-944725fcd3b9_story.html
There once was a widow who lived in a house by the sea.
It wasnt much of a place, just a fading, clapboard-clad box a few steps from the boardwalk in Atlantic City.
Yet, somehow, that house has turned into a clogged intersection of American celebrity and wealth, an odd mash-up of failed dreams, bombast, stubborn indignation, name-calling, angry taunts and legal bombardment.
The cast of characters populating that houses curious history over the past three decades includes a friend and co-author of Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, a legendary pornographer, and a famed investor. But the central figures in its life and death saga are a feisty, obstinate woman named Vera Coking and a billionaire, the Republican presidential front-runner, Donald Trump.
Trump is dominating his Republican opponents in the polls. But in the long melodrama that is Trumps business career, the house in Atlantic City is the place where all the billionaires money and all the billionaires men couldnt keep a 5-foot-3 widow from whupping him