![]() ![]() “When there was a Tyson fight, it was like New Year’s Eve all over the city, massive traffic jams,” he said.īut things began to sour for Trump Plaza when Donald Trump opened the nearby Trump Taj Mahal in 1990, with crushing debt loads that led the company to pour most of its resources - and cash - into the shiny new hotel and casino. The casino even had a cameo in the film “Ocean’s Eleven.” When George Clooney and Brad Pitt recruited actor Bernie Mac’s character to help with a Las Vegas casino heist, they plucked him from Trump Plaza, where he was a dealer.īob McDevitt, president of the main casino workers’ union, said the place oozed glamor and buzz when it first opened. “They were very down-to-earth people,” Gatewood recalled. Ron Gatewood, a food and beverage worker at Trump Plaza from 1986 until its closing in 2014, brought food and drinks to stars including Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross and Barry White in their hotel rooms. It was the place to be when mega-events such as a Mike Tyson boxing match or a Rolling Stones concert was held next door in Boardwalk Hall. ![]() Opened in 1984, when Trump was a real estate developer in his pre-politics days, Trump Plaza was for a time the most successful casino in Atlantic City. ![]() Icahn said he would replace the $175,000 that had already been bid with his own money. But Icahn - a donor and former special economic advisor to Trump - objected on safety and liability grounds, and got the auction house to halt the bids. ![]()
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