Like its owner, Trump Tower is brash and in-your-face. The President of the United States Donald Trump doesn't really do subtle and his signature New York landmark, boasting sweeping views of Central Park, is as ostentatious as Potus. From its gleaming gold fittings and 60-foot atrium waterfall, to the walls lined with the most costly Italian marble, the building screams wealth. A fire on the 50th floor at the weekend, which claimed the life of 67-year-old art dealer Todd Brassner, has put the skyscraper and its residents in the spotlight. Four firefighters were injured but the blaze was contained, prompting the President to praise the strength of the tower. Although he retains an office there, since picking up the keys to the White House Trump and his wife Melania no longer spend much time at their penthouse.

However, down the years the list of other rich and famous residents of Trump Tower reads like a Who's Who of New York society. From pop stars to movie idols and criminals to despots, they've all lived in the 664ft-high building since it opened in 1983. The already exclusive address on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, was given added cachet in 2016 when Trump upset the odds to become the most powerful man on earth. The President formerly lived on the top three floors, starting on 66, although eagle-eyed visitors have noticed that while the elevator supposedly goes to the 68th floor there are actually only 58 levels.

Canny developer Trump listed the first residential floor above the 19 tiers of commercial enterprises not as the 20th but the 30th. The tycoon initially moved into Trump Tower - which cost about £150million to build - with his first wife Ivana and their children. When she claimed that an entire Italian mountain had been demolished to provide all the marble, nobody was entirely sure if she was joking. Just before the tower's other sumptuous apartments first hit the market, it was reported that Prince Charles and his new wife Princess Diana had their eyes on the place as a bolt-hole in New York. In the words of today's Trump it proved to be fake news, but the tycoon turned the false alarm to his advantage. Soon showbusiness stars were beating a path to the skyscraper. In that first decade the actor Bruce Willis, singer Paul Anka and entertainer Liberace all bought apartments. Willis eventually put his on the market for £10million in 2005.

Another early resident was the chat show host Johnny Carson, but he left under a cloud in 1987 following a row over a missing coat. Two Trump employees, who were accused of stealing the garment, were duly sacked... only for Carson to later shamefacedly admit that he had found it. All occupiers have the services of white-gloved doormen, 24-hour concierges, in-house maids, on-call valets and a state-of-the-art gym. Downstairs there are Gucci and Tiffany stores, prompting residents to quip that you can always pick up a pair of shoes or a diamond necklace but not a carton of milk. Few tenants attracted as much publicity for the building, on the site of a former department store, as Michael Jackson. For 10 months in 1994 the singer rented a duplex on the 63rd floor - once the home of Trump's parents - and turned one of the bedrooms into a mirrored dance studio. Jacko is said to have paid about £80,000 a month, compared with the average price now of around £35,000 a month.

British composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber sold his 5,300-square-foot apartment on the 59th and 60th floors for an eyewatering £12million in 2010. Other residents are notorious rather than starry, including Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Haitian dictator overthrown in a 1986 uprising, whose £2million apartment was owned through a Panamanian holding company. The one-time renter of a home on floor 63 was career criminal Jay Weinberg, who was convicted in the late 1980s of one of the biggest medical care frauds in US history. The same pad was sold to Vadim Trincher, a Russian-born poker champion, for £4million in 2009. Four years later he was convicted of running a gambling ring catering to Russian mobsters and sentenced to five years. Art dealer Hillel Nahmad liked living in his Trump Tower apartment so much that he bought the entire 51st floor, for a reported £16million. In 2014, he too was jailed for running a high-stakes gambling ring.

One businessman who was able to secure an office there despite facing legal charges was asked why so many shady characters appeared to be drawn to the building. "Mr Trump is very objective," he said. "Renting space has nothing to do with colour or race or indictment. It has to do with if you can pay the rent." These days The Donald owns about one third of the tower which carries his name, a stake which is worth about £335million but has some £70million debt attached. However should anyone need reminding who is in charge, there is a Trump bar, a Trump grill and a Trump café in the complex. It's also emerged that the Pentagon signed an 18-month deal, costing £2million of taxpayers' cash, so it could have a command post on the same floors as Trump's penthouse.

On the 41st floor former football administrator José Maria Marin is currently under house arrest, having been convicted in connection with bribery charges. Italian fashion heiress Susetta Mion, an old pal of Ivana, calls an apartment on floor 32 home. Nip down one more storey and you may encounter reclusive billionaire Juan Beckmann Vidal, who controls the Jose Cuervo tequila brand. They say neighbours are a bit like family, in that you don't get to choose them. However, if you move into Trump Tower you can rest assured that whatever their background everyone will have at least one thing in common. They are all filthy rich.</s>New York (CNN) The Trump Tower apartment where a deadly fire started Saturday had no working smoke alarm, a New York City Fire Department source familiar with the investigation said -- which means there was no alarm sounding in the unit when firefighters arrived.

The fire on the 50th floor of the New York City highrise left one man dead and six firefighters injured, the FDNY said. The victim was identified as Todd Brassner, 67.

The FDNY was notified of the fire by a building-wide alarm system in Trump Tower, the source said. This system alerted the fire department to the location of the fire, including the floor of the blaze. Such alarm systems are common, and they are not audible in the entire building to prevent people from evacuating all at once and clogging staircases for firefighters.

The fire was contained to the 50th floor of the apartment building, which is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The President resides in the penthouse when he's in New York City. No members of the Trump family were in the tower during the fire, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.

The upper-level residential floors of the 58-story building are not equipped with fire sprinklers, Nigro said.

Read More</s>A man died, yet Trump still managed to find a way to make it all about him.

Donald Trump’s response to a fatal fire at his New York City Trump Tower has been nothing short of tone-deaf and self-congratulatory even in the face of a man dying. However, it’s nothing more or nothing less than what should be expected of Donald Trump.

As CNN reported, the fire at Trump Tower Sunday left one resident dead and six firefighters injured. The firefighters’ injuries are not considered life-threatening.

As of this writing, a cause of the fire has not yet been determined, according to CBS News. However, it appears that the building was built before New York City’s building codes required hard-wired water sprinklers in new buildings. The fire was considered “contained” as of 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday night.

The fire claimed the life of Todd Brassner, 67, who had lived in a $2.5 million apartment on the building’s 50th floor.

Unfortunately, even though a man died, Trump decided to make the story about him.

First, he congratulated himself for a “well-built building.”

Well-built except for those sprinklers, which may have saved Brassner’s life. As The New York Post reporteds, Trump was vehemently against being required to add sprinklers to buildings he built or renovated. In the 1990’s. He spent “thousands of dollars” lobbying the City Council not to require sprinklers – which would have cost about $4 per square foot at the time (or $6 per square foot in today’s money).

In fact, describing any Trump property as “well-built” may be a bit of a stretch. According to a February 2017 New York Magazine report, Trump properties often favor the appearance of opulence over solid construction. For example, at Trump Parc (106 Central Park South), residents complain that the walls are too thin, the plumbing is sub-par, and that corners were cut in order to give the appearance of luxury.

Accusations of shoddy construction and corner-cutting safety measures aside, Trump’s tone-deaf response to the fatal fire reveals Trump’s obsessive need to make every story about him.

For example, you may recall that Trump famously bragged that he would have run into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, to take on the school shooter, as CNN reported at the time. Those are pretty bold words coming from “Cadet Bone Spurs,” who managed to rack up five deferments to keep out of going to Vietnam.

It’s abundantly clear that Donald Trump’s biggest fan is none other than Donald Trump. Unfortunately, that means that just about any news story is going to be turned into a self-congratulatory story about Donald Trump, regardless of how little or how much he had to do with it. In the Parkland case, it amounted to little more than bragging that can’t be backed up by fact-check because it was a matter of “woulda, coulda, shoulda,” as they say.

But in the case of Trump Tower, it’s clear that Trump’s corner-cutting and penchant for style over substance quite possibly may have played a role in a man’s death. Yet, rather than mention the victim by name, Trump chose instead to congratulate himself on a “well-built building” – one that likely wasn’t well-built at all.

But hey, at least Trump got to talk about himself.</s>Like its owner, Trump Tower is brash and in-your-face. The President of the United States Donald Trump doesn't really do subtle and his signature New York landmark, boasting sweeping views of Central Park, is as ostentatious as Potus. From its gleaming gold fittings and 60-foot atrium waterfall, to the walls lined with the most costly Italian marble, the building screams wealth. A fire on the 50th floor at the weekend, which claimed the life of 67-year-old art dealer Todd Brassner, has put the skyscraper and its residents in the spotlight. Four firefighters were injured but the blaze was contained, prompting the President to praise the strength of the tower. Although he retains an office there, since picking up the keys to the White House Trump and his wife Melania no longer spend much time at their penthouse.

However, down the years the list of other rich and famous residents of Trump Tower reads like a Who's Who of New York society. From pop stars to movie idols and criminals to despots, they've all lived in the 664ft-high building since it opened in 1983. The already exclusive address on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, was given added cachet in 2016 when Trump upset the odds to become the most powerful man on earth. The President formerly lived on the top three floors, starting on 66, although eagle-eyed visitors have noticed that while the elevator supposedly goes to the 68th floor there are actually only 58 levels.

Canny developer Trump listed the first residential floor above the 19 tiers of commercial enterprises not as the 20th but the 30th. The tycoon initially moved into Trump Tower - which cost about £150million to build - with his first wife Ivana and their children. When she claimed that an entire Italian mountain had been demolished to provide all the marble, nobody was entirely sure if she was joking. Just before the tower's other sumptuous apartments first hit the market, it was reported that Prince Charles and his new wife Princess Diana had their eyes on the place as a bolt-hole in New York. In the words of today's Trump it proved to be fake news, but the tycoon turned the false alarm to his advantage. Soon showbusiness stars were beating a path to the skyscraper. In that first decade the actor Bruce Willis, singer Paul Anka and entertainer Liberace all bought apartments. Willis eventually put his on the market for £10million in 2005.

Another early resident was the chat show host Johnny Carson, but he left under a cloud in 1987 following a row over a missing coat. Two Trump employees, who were accused of stealing the garment, were duly sacked... only for Carson to later shamefacedly admit that he had found it. All occupiers have the services of white-gloved doormen, 24-hour concierges, in-house maids, on-call valets and a state-of-the-art gym. Downstairs there are Gucci and Tiffany stores, prompting residents to quip that you can always pick up a pair of shoes or a diamond necklace but not a carton of milk. Few tenants attracted as much publicity for the building, on the site of a former department store, as Michael Jackson. For 10 months in 1994 the singer rented a duplex on the 63rd floor - once the home of Trump's parents - and turned one of the bedrooms into a mirrored dance studio. Jacko is said to have paid about £80,000 a month, compared with the average price now of around £35,000 a month.

British composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber sold his 5,300-square-foot apartment on the 59th and 60th floors for an eyewatering £12million in 2010. Other residents are notorious rather than starry, including Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Haitian dictator overthrown in a 1986 uprising, whose £2million apartment was owned through a Panamanian holding company. The one-time renter of a home on floor 63 was career criminal Jay Weinberg, who was convicted in the late 1980s of one of the biggest medical care frauds in US history. The same pad was sold to Vadim Trincher, a Russian-born poker champion, for £4million in 2009. Four years later he was convicted of running a gambling ring catering to Russian mobsters and sentenced to five years. Art dealer Hillel Nahmad liked living in his Trump Tower apartment so much that he bought the entire 51st floor, for a reported £16million. In 2014, he too was jailed for running a high-stakes gambling ring.

One businessman who was able to secure an office there despite facing legal charges was asked why so many shady characters appeared to be drawn to the building. "Mr Trump is very objective," he said. "Renting space has nothing to do with colour or race or indictment. It has to do with if you can pay the rent." These days The Donald owns about one third of the tower which carries his name, a stake which is worth about £335million but has some £70million debt attached. However should anyone need reminding who is in charge, there is a Trump bar, a Trump grill and a Trump café in the complex. It's also emerged that the Pentagon signed an 18-month deal, costing £2million of taxpayers' cash, so it could have a command post on the same floors as Trump's penthouse.

On the 41st floor former football administrator José Maria Marin is currently under house arrest, having been convicted in connection with bribery charges. Italian fashion heiress Susetta Mion, an old pal of Ivana, calls an apartment on floor 32 home. Nip down one more storey and you may encounter reclusive billionaire Juan Beckmann Vidal, who controls the Jose Cuervo tequila brand. They say neighbours are a bit like family, in that you don't get to choose them. However, if you move into Trump Tower you can rest assured that whatever their background everyone will have at least one thing in common. They are all filthy rich.</s>A 67-year-old man died after being injured in a fire at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday. Neither President Trump nor his family was in the building.</s>Melania Trump 'horrified' that someone died in Trump Tower fire. She has a new perspective on life and what's important to her, 'Hollywood Life' reports.

A “shaken” Melania Trump has “put things in perspective” after news emerged that the Trump Tower fire claimed someone’s life. The fire that engulfed a portion of the Manhattan high rise in Midtown happened on Saturday around 5 p.m. The blaze resulted in the death of a man who lived on the 50th floor. Six others were injured.

A source told Hollywood Life that the first lady was “horrified” to learn that the tragedy resulted in a death.

“Melania was horrified to learn that there had been a death, in addition to a number of firefighters injured,” the source said. “That news really helped put things in perspective.”

Although Donald and Melania Trump weren’t at their Manhattan residence at the time the fire broke out, the website’s source contends that it was “terrifying nonetheless” for them.

Hollywood Life‘s insider added that the president and Melania were initially worried about the fire spreading to their apartment and the “irreparable damage to some very valuable and cherished possessions.” The couple then considered the lives of others, the source explained.

“However, upon hearing that there had been a fatality, any worries about material possessions paled in comparison,” the source continued.

The source went on to say that the Trump Tower fire served as a watershed moment of sorts for Melania Trump. She apparently took a closer look at her life and reevaluated what’s important to her.

The president and his wife are grateful to firefighters who responded to the blaze and are “praying for the speedy and full recovery of all those who were injured yesterday, in addition to sending their thoughts and prayers to the deceased resident’s family and loved ones — such a terrible tragedy.”

In regards to the fire, its exact cause is unknown. USA Today reports that no sprinkler system was installed. No other Trump family members were inside the 58-story building at the time of the fire. Trump Tower was completed in 1983, several years before property owners had to comply with regulations requiring sprinkler systems. However, if an older residential high-rise undergoes a significant renovation, property owners are required to add sprinkler systems.

It’s not elaborated upon what exactly Melania is reassessing in her life following the Trump Tower fire, but many might look to her marriage. She’s been the focal point of much debate and speculations on the heels of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal alleging they had affairs with her husband in 2006. Divorce rumors continue to swirl in light of the scandalous headlines. A related report by Hollywood Life claims that Melania intends to stay in her marriage to Trump for the sole purpose of protecting their 12-year-old son, Barron, from more damaging publicity.

“Melania’s main focus and priority is the well-being of Barron, and she believes that a stable family environment, as much as that is possible given the circumstances, is the best thing for her son,” the source told the website.

The insider revealed that Melania Trump is looking beyond her own wants and needs in her marriage. Her decision to stay is to maintain as much stability for Barron as she can. It’s important to her that Barron be raised in a normal home as much as possible.</s>The man who was killed when a raging fire broke out in his apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan early Saturday evening has been identified as a Westchester native.

The blaze, which was upgraded from three alarms to four alarms, erupted at the 58-story, 664-foot high mixed-use skyscraper on Fifth Avenue near West 56th Street just before 6 p.m.

Firefighters found the man, identified as 67-year-old Todd Brassner, unconscious and unresponsive when they entered the apartment.

"The apartment was entirely on fire," FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. "Members pushed in heroically, they were knocking down the fire and found one occupant of the apartment who is in critical condition."

Brassner was transported in critical condition to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died a short time later.

Four of the approximately 200 firefighters who responded suffered non-life threatening injuries, the FDNY said.

FDNY members remained at the scene after the fire was knocked down, searching floors and assessing smoke conditions. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

"This was a very difficult fire," Nigro reported. "As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke."

Brassner, an art dealer who purchased his high-rise apartment in 1996, had been struggling financially, the New York Post reported.

Brassner was a 1969 graduate of the New Rochelle Academy, a private school that closed in 1987.

"Fire at Trump Tower is out," President Donald Trump tweeted. "Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!"

"Thank you to the amazing men and women of the NYFD who extinguished a fire in a residential apartment at @TrumpTower," tweeted Trump's son, Eric, who lives at the family's Seven Springs Estate in Bedford. "The @FDNY and @NYPD are truly some of the most incredible people anywhere!"

The building houses the $100 million penthouse condominium residence of the building's namesake and developer, President Trump.

Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.</s>The Trump Tower apartment where a four-alarm fire killed a 67-year-old art dealer on Saturday did not have a smoke detector, FDNY officials have said.

No working alarm has been found in Todd Brassner's apartment, and New York City's fire department learned of the fire because of detectors in the building's heating and ventilation system, NBC News reported.

The city requires both property owners and tenants to ensure the installation and maintenance of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

When an apartment is sold the building owners are supposed to make sure a smoke detector is in the unit but residents are responsible for maintaining them after they buy it.

The 50th-floor apartment in the Manhattan high-rise did not have sprinklers either.

As previously reported, president Donald Trump fought against a 1998 law that said sprinklers needed to be installed in all residential buildings in New York City.

The legislation was proposed after two major fatal fires in Brooklyn and Manhattan - which sparked building code changes across the city.

And early talks for the bill said all buildings would be required to pay to install sprinklers, at the displeasure of many real estate moguls, including Trump.

After the bills were compiled Trump called city officials and made the argument that installing sprinkler systems throughout entire buildings was too expensive, the New York Times reported at the time.

The cost of the installation is roughly $4 per square foot.

Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani agreed with developers, saying the cost of installing sprinklers was going to be too high.

After the proposal was tweaked to say existing buildings and those with approved permits didn't have to install sprinkler systems - Trump backed off and left the city council alone.

Giuliani signed the bill, which added the provision that if the high-rise rentals underwent renovations developers would have to install sprinklers.

The bill as it was initially written would have impacted two of his buildings, Trump Tower and Trump World Tower, which had already been approved but began construction in 1999.

He ended up spending $3million on sprinklers for the Trump World Tower, but they were never installed in the Upper East Side Fifth Avenue building.

On Sunday, New York City Council's Housing and Buildings Committee says it plans to push for laws to require residential high-rises to have fire sprinklers.

Authorities are still working to determine the cause of the fire, which reportedly started in Brassner's bedroom and appears like an accident.

The commissioner of the New York Fire Department said that the building stood up well despite not having sprinklers in the units.

The president later echoed that sentiment in a tweet, applauding firefighters for putting out the flames quickly.

'Fire at Trump Tower is out,' he wrote.

'Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!'

He did not mention the potential victims in his tweet.

This is reportedly the second fire this year at Trump Tower. In January a roof top fire broke out in the heating and cooling unit of the building.</s>No working smoke detector was found in the 50th-floor Trump Tower apartment that went up in flames in New York over the weekend, killing a man, a senior Fire Department official briefed on the investigation said Monday.

In another development, the New York City medical examiner's office said the victim, Todd Brassner, 67, who was transported to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in critical condition, died of smoke inhalation.

The four-alarm fire that engulfed a Trump Tower apartment Saturday evening remains under investigation by the fire marshal's office. With no sprinklers or working smoke detector in the apartment, the fire in Brassner's apartment was difficult for firefighters to tackle.

The high-rise opened in 1983, when there were no requirements for sprinklers on residential floors.

Six firefighters were injured, according to the Fire Department. Three were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, and three were treated at the scene.</s>There was a fire at Trump Tower. It wasn’t any ordinary fire either. According to CNN the fire left one dead and six fire fighters injured. What made the fire so strange is that the upper floors have no fire sprinklers. There was also reports from residents that they received no call for evacuation.

The man was identified as Todd Brassner. He was unconscious when discovered. Although he was brought to the hospital he unfortunately didn’t make it. He previously took up residence on the 50th floor of the Trump Tower.

This isn’t the first occurrence of fire that the tower has experienced. Just three months before a fire happened in the cooling tower.

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Investigators say Trump Tower, where a man died in a fire yesterday, had no working smoke alarms.