Reporter Recalls Michael Jackson-Donald Trump Assignment
It included a flight on a 'prototypical Hair Force One.'
Alex Connock turns a number of memorable phrases in his look-back for London’s The Spectator.
A tour in 1990 of the finest suite at Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal hotel and casino in Atlantic City delivered an aesthetic that ‘was Aladdin meets Donatella Versace’s underwear drawer.’ Connock also muses that a reincarnation of Cleopatra at the front desk with an Amex gold card would not have caused quite the same level of excitement among hotel staff as the sight of Michael Jackson, then at the peak of his musical and live performance powers.
Connock,
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