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12. Trump Tower was used as the Devil's NY apartment in Devil's Advocate.

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:44 AM

Sep 2025

Screenwriter Tony Gilroy said the script called for Pacino’s character to have a decadently evil New York City apartment. They used Trump's penthouse apartment in Trump Tower.

https://uproxx.com/movies/donald-trump-tower-apartment-the-devils-advocate/

To Quote Gilroy from the interview:

"We needed the ugliest, most garish, horrifying real-estate developer apartment we could possibly find, and Trump threw his apartment at us. We didn’t have to [do anything]. If you look at the movie, that’s his f**ing sh*t-bag apartment with all Versailles gilt and the high-rise windows. It’s just so perfect. He came by the set every day. Because he was living there. He’d come by the set and poke around … he was a clown. I’ve been in New York since 1979. I’m with him … he’s a f**king clown. You know, just that grifter clown kind of loser outsider, pretend rich guy. [To the actual titans of New York], he was lint."

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