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...year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology, the self-help "philosophy" group he had discovered just seven months earlier...
...describing what has befallen him. While he will give up his beloved Trump Princess yacht, the Trump Shuttle, the Regency, his half- interest in the Hyatt and his 27% interest in the Alexander's store chain, he will retain the Manhattan trophies he values most: the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue's Trump Tower and a valuable tract of undeveloped Hudson River waterfront. He'll also keep his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., which features a 118-room mansion and a nine-hole golf course...
...personal bankruptcy by whittling his debt down to more manageable proportions. The amount of debt that Trump guaranteed personally -- several hundred million dollars -- is breathtaking even by the standards of the '80s. In negotiations so far, the banks have agreed to secure some of that debt with the Plaza and other assets...
Trump has bet his future most heavily on Atlantic City by holding on to his three casinos there: the billion-dollar Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Castle and the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. Considering his present straits, the move may make sense. After all, he still must come up with millions in annual interest payments. As he once said of the casino business, "Most of all, I like the cash flow...
...been scraping desperately for more than a year to meet his interest payments. His bankers bailed him out last summer, realizing with a chill how badly they had been taken and how thoroughly mired they were in the mess. He was carrying a $300 million mortgage on the Plaza, $120 million on the Grand Hyatt, $75 million on Trump Tower. In December his father Fred, a builder in Queens, N.Y., had to lend him $3.5 million to pay his bills. Appropriately enough, Fred did so by purchasing that amount in gambling chips from one of his son's casinos. Even...