At the meeting, which took place at the New York Palace Hotel, where the Mexican President was staying, Angelopoulos agreed to sponsor him.

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At age 9, Cameron Johnson wrote a letter to the real estate tycoon (his hero at the time) saying that he had seen Trump's cameo in the Home Alone 2 movie and would love to visit the suite in the New York Palace Hotel where it was filmed.

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Many party operatives, including the Tammany Hall delegation from New York, stayed in the still famous Brown Palace Hotel.

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The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.

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