Her First Job Out of Journalism School: Trump Magazine

Carey Purcell recalls all kinds of craziness.

TrumpMagIn the fall of 2006, Carey Purcell replied to an ad on Craigslist and soon found herself working as the receptionist for Trump magazine. The publication was originally launched in 2002 and existed briefly as Trump World, before starting up again under that name in 2004 and being eventually re-branded in 2006 as Trump magazine.

This was not a Trump enterprise. Rather, publisher Michael Jacobson and his company Premiere Publishing Group paid Trump a per-issue licensing fee.

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