Once home to Michael Jackson, this four bedroom and four and a half bath
condo is located on New York City's Fifth Avenue
and benefits from spectacular views over Central Park through its floor-to-ceiling
windows situated on the sixty third floor of the Trump Tower.
The apartment is just a couple floors down from Donald Trump's very own 100 million
dollar penthouse, once home to the billionaire's parents,
Fred and Mary, Trump rented the pad out for 10 months to his pal Michael Jackson
for 110000 dollars a month back in the summer of 1994 after he secretly
married his then new bride, Lisa Marie Presley.
Some residents said that Jackson rented
this property in particular because it allowed him to go in the elevator directly
to the garage and leave stealthily out the building,
avoiding mass hysteria from fans and paparazzi on the streets of New York.
This is what the richest newlyweds in America now call home.
A skyscraper as big as their marriage, the extravagant Trump Tower in New York.
Donald Trump owns the place, of course,
and his friendship with Michael Jackson goes way back.
Trump even has a picture of the king
of Pop and Donald kids prominently displayed in his living room.
I think it's great.
They're very happy and I think everybody's happy there.
They're they're great. Big secret.
For a long time, I've known the secret for a long.
For a very long county
spanning three thousand seven hundred twenty five square feet,
this grand scale customized residence features a grand living room,
cherry paneled library, black absolute granite and marble gallery.
The master bedroom suite features a private dressing room and en suite
on XPath room, an expensive and expensive closets.
There are lots and lots of rooms.
Among the many features of this many
feature at home are Electric Blinds, a private home office professional park
facing Chef's Kitchen, a large laundry room and 28 windows
that offer north, south and west facing views over Manhattan.
You yourself could even enjoy Michael Jackson's former New York
trackpad, who even turned one of the bedrooms into a mere dance studio
for a cool 23 million dollars when it was put back on the market in 2016.
Trump himself claimed the singer was
a very good friend of his writing in time after the King of Pop's death in 2009.
He was an amazing guy,
but beyond all else, he was the greatest entertainer I've ever known.
Well, I knew Michael very well and he was a special guy.
He was with me many, many times at Mar a Lago, in particular in Palm Beach.
Michael did a lot for charity.
And if I ever needed him for something, if he had to come late tonight
to Police Athletic League, not that he was thrilled about it because
the last 10 years were tough for him, but he'd always be there.
The tycoon also told previously CNN he lived in Trump Tower.
He lives in various of my buildings.
He sort of follows me around in the sense that he likes what I have.
Mr.
Trump first met Michael Jackson in 1988 when he attended a Madison Square Garden
concert that was part of the singer's tour in support of his bad album.
After the show, the current president of the United States made a backstage
visit to the King of Pop and they apparently hit it off.
In 1990, Mr.
Trump even persuaded Michael Jackson
to show up at the opening of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City,
parading him in front of camera crews and reporters.
The next day, Mr.
Jackson's close friend, Ryan White,
succumbed to the AIDS virus, and the developer accompanied him
on a visit to the grieving family in Indianapolis.
With press and photographers in tow. After Mr.
Jackson moved into his Trump Tower
apartments, the business mogul took him to a low key dinner at Le Cirque.
There was no entourage, no posse, said Maria Wainer,
the restaurant's longtime maitre, till he came as a guest of Mr.
Trump. And that was in.
Michael Jackson barely touched his risotto, Mr.
Weiner recalled. And Mr.
Trump had fish and drank no alcohol since they returned to the United States,
the reclusive couple has spent most of their time in New York.
The wacky pair was spotted here at FAO Schwarz.
Lisa Marie pushing a disguised Michael in a wheelchair,
much like the king of Pop, the president of the United States.
Donald Trump doesn't really do subtle.
And his landmark Trump Tower is no
exception, boasting a grand gold atrium waterfall
made largely of Italian brekky panish marble adorned with retail tenants
that eventually included Gucci, Landel jewelry and the Trump store.
The building is not exactly homey.
Donald Trump's former primary residence is a three story penthouse apartment
estimated at more than 10000 square feet by Forbes,
originally designed by Ralston's interior designer, Angelo Dunga.
It had a smoky Helmut Newton vibe with black lacquered walls,
velvet furniture and handsome mid century tables.
A private elevator connects Mr.
Trump to the twenty sixth floor office
where he conducted Trump Organization business.
And then Mr. Trump went to the nearby Olympic Tower
for a dinner held by the Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and Co.
living room bigger than his own
and decided to remodel out when the mirrors, brass and mahogany.
In came the Greek columns, gold leaf paint and Louie,
the 14th inspired furniture, a style much preferred by Michael Jackson
and appears to be reflected in his own Trump Tower apartment.
However, Michael Jackson was in Trump's only famous residents,
who have called Trump Tower their New York home over the years.
The list of other rich and famous
residents reads like a who's who of New York society
work on the gleaming tower began in 1980, replacing a 12 storey Bonwit Teller store,
a stately structure built at Stuart and Co.
in 1929 at a cost of one hundred ninety
million dollars just before the Towers sumptuous apartments first hit the market.
It was reported that Prince Charles and his new wife, Princess Diana,
had their eyes on the place as a bolthole in New York.
In the words of today's Trump, it proved to be fake news.
But the tycoon turned the false alarm to his advantage.
The sale that never occurred, as Mr.
Trump called it, in the art of the deal,
but was the one that most helped Trump Tower Trump Tower at 721 to 725
Fifth Avenue open to the public February 1983.
By this time,
more than half the building's condominium units had been sold,
and all but a small percentage would be gone within the next few years.
The Trump Tower and it's completed will be four hundred dollars million worth of high
priced apartments, commercial space and boutiques.
What's happened is phenomenal,
I've never seen anything to the extent that I have in New York at now from a real
estate standpoint, has probably become the hottest city in the world.
People are flocking here by droves and I guess a lot of things had to do with it.
Mostly, I feel it was the psychology
of making New York a winner as opposed to a loser.
Soon, SHOWBIZ and the stars were beating a path to the skyscraper.
In that first decade, the actor Bruce Willis,
singer Paul Anka and entertainer Liberace all bought apartments.
Will is eventually put his on the market for 12 million dollars.
In 2005, British composer and impresario
Andrew Lloyd Webber sold his 5300 square foot apartment on the 15th and 16th floors
for an eye watering 14 million dollars in 2010.
In August last year, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo spent
eighteen point five dollars million on an apartment in the famous building.
And given Mr Trump's feuds with celebrities such as Rosie O'Donnell
and Snoop Dogg, it may not come as a surprise that some
of his relationships with well-known tenants ended poorly.
Another early resident was the chat show
host, Johnny Carson, but he left under a cloud in 1987,
following a row over a missing code to Trump.
Employees who were accused of stealing
the garment were duly sacked, only for Carson to later shamefacedly
admit that he found it among his belongings.
Bojana. Don't worry about Gennifer Flowers.
She got a new job. Got fired.
You know, she was a receptionist at an unemployment agency.
She got canned, but she got a new job today as a Donald Trump backup mistress.
If for any reason, Marla Maples is unable to fulfill her duties.
Renting on the same floor as Jackson was
career criminal, Jay Weinberg, who was convicted in the late 1980s of one
of the biggest medical care frauds in U.S. history.
The same pad was then sold to Vadim Trencher,
a Russian born poker champion, for four million dollars in 2009.
Four years later, he was convicted of running a gambling
ring catering to Russian mobsters and sentenced to five years.
Recent residents of the 60 second and 60
third floors also include Guido Lombardi, a Palm Beach socialite originally
from Trius the Italy Trump supporter and U.S. representative
of the anti-immigrant Northern League political party in his homeland.
Hillary Clinton even used the building as a residence.
The year was 2000, and Mrs.
Clinton was in the middle of her first
political campaign, running to be New York's junior senator.
Steven Spielberg, an enthusiastic donor to Mrs.
Clinton's campaign,
had use of upset a tear in Trump Tower purchased for him by Universal Pictures
but barely stayed at the place despite its views of Central Park and offered it
to the candidate as a crash pad on gruelling campaign days.
Donald Trump and Mrs.
Clinton were on good terms.
Back then, he donated money to her candidacy and called her tough and smart.
Moreover, Mr.
Trump was skilled in the art of spinning
his associations with celebrities into publicity.
However, few tenants attracted as much
publicity for the building as Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson was actually a very good friend of mine.
I knew Michael Jackson very well, lived in Trump Tower for a long period of time.
I would go down to my.
He actually got married, you know,
Lisa Marie Presley, the whole big deal at Mar a Lago there were in the tower.
And I will tell you, he was up there one week with her and he never came down.
So I don't know what was going on, but they got along.
You know, a lot of people say, oh, they didn't write.
They were up there for a week.
They never, ever came.
I said, well, that was Michael.
But he was a very talented guy.
One of the truly most talented people I know very well.
I knew the real story of Michael Jackson.
You know, when he died, I would watch people get on.
I don't want to mention names,
but people that you know very well, people that you interview and they would
talk about Michael Jackson, they didn't even know.
I mean, very few people got to know Michael Jackson.
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