The project is being developed by Trump Group, a conglomerate controlled by brothers Eddie and Jules Trump, sons of a tailor from Pretoria, South Africa, who came to the U.S. in 1974 and are no relation to New York real-estate magnate Donald Trump.
Talackova then hired women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred, and the pageant's co-owner, Donald Trump, was left with no choice but to change the rules and let Talackova compete.