Edit: I see you amended your post to make the clarification about the property that I raise below. Thank you!
https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/business/names-faces/2018/06/18/les-wexner-builds-house/986503007/
Then there's the Palm Beach story. In 1984, Wexner bought for $10 million the 28-room Wrightsman mansion, which was an unofficial landmark on the chichi island of the social upper crust. Wexner promptly demolished the estate. He planned to build in its place a 22,750-square-foot re-creation of the Petite Trianon at Versailles to be "fashioned through the vocabulary of 18th Century France"-complete with two guest suites, a living room, dining room, library, a master bedroom suite, an exercise room, a kitchen, breakfast room, staff dining room, laundry room, wine cellar, a workshop, storage rooms galore and a loggia, which is a roofed gallery overlooking an open courtyard.
And then there were the 3,000-square-foot tennis pavilion and the 4,000-square-foot pool cabana, which itself was big enough to house a family of three with its two bedrooms, two baths and 12-foot-high ceilings. So he could see what the house would look like, Wexner built on the site a façade of the proposed offwhite marble veneer, then tore that down.
The normally civilized voices of the Palm Beach moneyed set were raised in anger. Wexner endured community opposition and zoning board hassles-until 1988, when, with the house under construction, he said the-hell-with-it and sold the property for $12.1 million to a nursing home tycoon.
So Wexner never lived there. He immediately demolished the house once he bought it. He was building a replacement house on the land there but got fed up with Palm Beach bureaucracy and sold it before the new house was even finished. So, no, Epstein and Trump were not both bidding for "Wexner's old mansion". (However, I admit I was wrong about there being no connection linking the property to Wexner. I'm sorry about that.).
As for the police tip, do you seriously believe Trump called in that tip? Seriously?? I can find absolutely no reasonable grounds on which to believe that could be true. Even Trump himself has ever even made such a claim.
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