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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/business/yourmoney/23trump.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/business/yourmoney/23trump... At least one other guy talked

• dmix 18y ago
  Donald Trumps father had a 400 million dollar fortune. More accurately he talked his way from the near-top to the very top. This article also mentioned Gary's father had a 4 million dollar wine business.
  • mattmaroon 18y ago
    I've read that Trump's fortune, before he became a TV celebrity with The Apprentice, was actually less than he would have had if he had simply taken all of the money he inherited and put it in a savings account at a bank. Essentially he wasn't a very good investor.
    • mynameishere 18y ago
      He was a celebrity a long time ago, and I doubt he made >2.5 billion from a TV show.
      • mattmaroon 18y ago
        He wasn't a TV celebrity though. He was more tabloid fodder. And no, he didn't make it from the show directly, but the show made his brand name a lot more valuable, and made it a lot easier for him to make money from his businesses. And his true worth is probably far less than that. A lot of people claim in the $150m-$250m range. It's hard to estimate a guy whose worth is primarily not in equities.
        • byrneseyeview 18y ago
          It has been a running joke in Forbes -- since the 80's -- that he thinks they've underestimated his net worth. I think the issue is not that he doesn't own equities -- they estimate the fortunes of Bloomberg, the Koches, the [Fidelity] Johnsons, etc. just fine. The problem is that he's so leveraged: being off by 10% on his assets might mean being off by 50% on his equity.
    • coliveira 18y ago
      He made and lost fortunes over time in real estate deals. It depends of what period you're talking about.