Bahama Drama News: When Donald Trump Owned Paradise Island
Bahama Drama News: When Donald Trump Owned Paradise Island
Many people don know this lil piece a Bahamian history but yeah man Donald J Trump once owned property right here in the Bahamas. Not just any lil piece a land either we talkin bout Paradise Island the same place that later turn into Atlantis
Back in the 1960s a company named Resorts International started developing Paradise Island. They open a big hotel and casino in 1968 and that become one of the main hotspots in the Caribbean. Fast forward to July 1987 Donald Trump buy a controlling interest in Resorts International for 79 million dollars. That move give him ownership of the hotel and casino right here in the Bahamas
But Trump wasn’t really interested in Paradise Island. He had his eyes set on finishing a massive casino project called the Taj Mahal over in Atlantic City. Still for a short time the Bahamas was part of Trump’s empire
Now the story get juicy. Trump end up in a tug-of-war with TV producer Merv Griffin who also wanted Resorts International. After some back and forth the two of them settle in 1988. Merv Griffin get Resorts International including the Bahamas properties and Trump walk away with the Taj Mahal project in New Jersey
That deal end Trump’s brief moment in Bahamian business history
Years later in 1994 Merv Griffin sell the Paradise Island property to Sol Kerzner the South African hotel boss. Kerzner transform the place into the famous Atlantis Paradise Island that open officially in 1998
So yeah Bahama Drama family believe it or not Paradise Island once had Donald Trump’s name on it even if just for a short while. Another wild chapter in the drama book of the Bahamas.
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Yes and he also went to the church on Shirley Street before the Paradise Island bridge.
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