Empire
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is a dramatic, revealingtrue business story centered on the greedy international tycoons who declared war over the world's hottest property--the Empire State Building. This gripping account reveals the eleventh-hour deal-breaking secrets; a tale of...
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This is a dramatic, revealingtrue business story centered on the greedy international tycoons who declared war over the world's hottest property--the Empire State Building. This gripping account reveals the eleventh-hour deal-breaking secrets; a tale of international competition, cross-cultural misunderstanding, family rivalry, and raw greed. Before it is over, several participants will go to prison, and a surprise death and legal standoff will place the property under the control of the unlikeliest character.
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Einige Gebäude bröckeln, die meisten verfallen, und einige Wenige haben Bestand und werden zum Wahrzeichen ihrer Länder - der Eiffelturm, der Schiefe Turm von Pisa und natürlich das Empire State Building. "Empire" ist das erste Buch auf dem Markt, das die Geschichte des Empire State Building aufzeichnet - ein Drama über Betrug, Rache und pure Habgier. Autor Mitch Pacelle greift hierzu auf persönliche Darstellungen der Hauptakteure zurück: den exzentrischen japanischen Industriemagnaten Hideki Yokoi, der das Gebäude heimlich, still und leise erworben hat, Jean-Paul Renoir, der versuchte es ihm wieder zu entreißen und die amerikanische Business-Prominenz, wie Immobilienkönigin Leona Helmsley und Baulöwe Donald Trump. Doch bevor die Geschichte endet, finden sich verschiedene Beteiligte im Gefängnis wieder, und durch einen überraschenden Todesfall und eine juristische Pattsituation gerät die Immobilie unter die Kontrolle des merkwürdigsten Charakters. Eine unterhaltsame Lektüre, d ieauch die Konkurrenzsituation zwischen Japan und den USA deutlich werden lässt.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Empire “
ProloguePART ONE: SKY'S THE LIMIT
1. The Deal and the Deception
2. Reaching for the Sky
3. Trophy Hunting
4. Yokoi's Secret
5. Yokoi Meets His Match
6. Old Guard, New World
7. East Meets West
PART TWO: TOWER OF DISCORD
8. Who Owns the Empire State Building?
9. Trumps' Broadside
10. The French Front
11. Fall of the House of Harry
12. Sibling Rivalry
13. Behind Bars
14. A Meeting with Daddy
15. Yokoi's Last Stand
16. Heirs
17. Donald's Endgame
Epilogue
Source Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mitchell Pacelle
- 2001, VIII, 344 Seiten, Maße: 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0471403946
- ISBN-13: 9780471403944
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Empire State's saga of hateA FORMER business partner of Donald Trump who planned to turn the Empire State Building into luxury condos ended up in the same cell block as John Gotti Jr., according to a new book about the world's most famous skyscraper. In 'Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal and the Battle for an American Icon', due in September from John Wiley & Sons, Wall Street Journal reporter Mitchell Pacelle revisits the bitter feud between Trump and Leona Helmsley, and reveals how Trump's one-time partner Jean-Paul Renoir ended up in jail with Gotti Jr. Trump owns the ground under the Empire State, but has no control over the skyscraper, thanks to a lease that runs until 2073. He's been trading insults with Helmsley since the '80s. He once called her a 'bitch on two wheels who is driven by a desire to intimidate others.' Trump tells Pacelle: 'She's a horrible, horrible human being. She's the meanest person. She's not even mean. She's beyond mean. She's sick, I've seen what she's done to certain people, including her own husband.' The book also exhumes Helmsley's classic quote about Trump: 'I wouldn't believe him if his tongue were notarized.' 'Empire' details how Renoir, a former Lehman Brothers investment banker, laid claim to the building in the early '90s with wife Kiiko Nakahara after allegedly stealing shares from Kiiko's Japanese tycoon father, Hideki Yokoi. Renoir wanted to 'gut' the Empire State and remake it from the ground up. Renoir says he and Trump wanted to clear out all current office tenants and replace them with luxury condos on the upper floors, along with an upscale hotel and high-end stores on the lower floors. Renoir also 'envisioned an exterior elevator buried discreetly in two corners of the building, which would offer a thrilling ride to tourists.' He thought the famed colored lights on top were 'garish', and would have to go. The changes were never made, as Trump failed to wrest control of the long-term lease held by Helmsley and
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her partner Peter Malkin. Renoir currently resides in Westchester's Norwood E. Jackson Correctional Center, awaiting extradition to France on charges that he stole nine castles worth an estimated $22.45 million as well as his father-in-law's shares of the Empire State. Behind bars, Renoir befriended Gotti Jr. They began to swap newspapers and 'pool food from their care packages, and using a microwave, try to approximate home-cooked Italian meals like a scene out of 'Goodfellas.'"
(New York Post, May 20, 2001)
(New York Post, May 20, 2001)
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