Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 20, 1993 TAG: 9302200283
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PEOPLE
Donald Trump couldn't subdivide his historic Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., so now he says it needs to be preserved.The developer is asking the town for permission to turn it into a social club for about 1,000 members.
"Mar-a-Lago's almost a sacred place," Trump said Thursday. "We want to make sure it's forever preserved."
Trump has a $50 million lawsuit pending against the town for rejecting his plan last year to split the 17-acre estate into eight lots.
Town officials said that would ruin the historic character of the 12-building, 115-room complex built 66 years ago for cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Trump paid $10 million for the estate in 1985, and it's now appraised at $17.6 million. He has complained he must pay a prohibitive $1.3 million in upkeep each year.
A judge in Kalamazoo, Mich., threw out part of a lawsuit accusing Magic Johnson of infecting a woman with the AIDS virus, ruling that the basketball star wasn't obliged to tell her of his previous sexual experiences.
The $2 million lawsuit filed in October claims Johnson either knew he was infected or should have told the unidentified woman that he ran a high risk of having the virus when they had sex in 1990.
"A defendant who has had unprotected sexual encounters with multiple partners does not have a legal duty to inform a plaintiff of his or her past sexual activity," U.S. District Judge Richard Enslen said Thursday.
Johnson has said he had sex with the woman once but didn't have or didn't know he had the virus at the time. The trial is set for March 1994.
The former Los Angeles Lakers star announced in 1991 that he was infected with the AIDS virus.
Ross Perot has something to say to the creators of the new "Sesame Street" character H. Ross Parrot.
"No. 1, the nose is too small," said the former presidential candidate, appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday to discuss President Clinton's economic plan.
"No. 2, it's not a real Texas accent. We've got to help him there. No. 3, my family loves it, my grandchildren love it. No. 4, the Birds of the World organization is up in arms about it."