Mark Cuban, a vocal Trump critic, has secretly owned a luxury condo in Trump Tower for the past 25 years.
The 66-year-old Dallas-based investor, who made his fortune in computer software, bought a 3,700-square-foot property on the 45th floor of the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Central Park West in July 2000 for $13.5 million. , according to property records obtained by the New York Post.
Their four-bedroom, six-bathroom property offers a massive living room with two walls of windows offering panoramic views of Central Park, as well as a formal dining room with city views. based on a recent listing for a similar property which sells for 19.75 million dollars.
The master suite also features east-facing views of Central Park and the city skyline, as well as two private bathrooms.
Additionally, the condo features a breakfast nook, a private library offering floor-to-ceiling windows, and spacious bedrooms, each with its own private bathroom.
Mark Cuban, 66, a vocal Trump critic, has secretly owned a condo in Trump Tower for 25 years, according to property records.
He purchased a 3,700-square-foot property on the 45th floor of the Trump International Hotel and Tower on Central Park West in July 2000 for $13.5 million.
As a resident of the luxury condo building, Cuban also enjoys access to 24-hour doorman and concierge services, a health club and spa, a 55-foot-long heated pool, a steam room, a sauna, valet parking and even room. Served by the Michelin-starred Jean-Georges restaurant next door.
It is unclear how often Cuban takes advantage of these amenities and how often he stays on the property.
He had purchased the condo through The Radical Revocable Trust, a company he oversees as trustee, and a property deed from 2000 includes rights to shared amenities.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, Cuban claimed that the property value had plummeted since he purchased the luxury apartment.
‘I bought it 25 years ago. When I wanted to sell it a few years ago, the value was more than halved,” he said. “I got 33 million interest in 2014. In 2018, the best offer I could get was less than half.”
The property offers a huge living room with two walls of windows, offering panoramic views of Central Park, as well as a formal dining room with city views, according to a recent listing for a condo with the same floor plan selling for $19.75 million
Each of its spacious rooms has its own bathroom, according to the listing.
Then, when Trump first ran for president in 2016, he had Cuban’s support.
But in a recent interview with podcaster Theo Von, a Cuban, alluded to a confrontation between him and the former president.
He said he felt Trump was “the best thing that could happen to him in politics because he wasn’t a typical candidate” when he first ran, but then he “somehow overcame him.”
When asked to explain further, Cuban said that “every time you tried to have a conversation about specifics” with Trump “it never worked.”
Still, Cuban admitted that he worked with the then-president when the COVID pandemic reached the United States in 2020.
“He asked me to come help during COVID,” Cuban said. ‘When he asked me to help him with health care, I showed up, of course, because country trumps party.
“And I would do it again if he wins, but I hope he doesn’t.”
Cuban originally supported Donald Trump when he first ran for president in 2016, but has since become a major supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Shark Tank star has since become a leading supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris, who has done phone banking for the Democratic candidate and appeared at several of her rallies.
At an invitation-only event at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh last month, Cuban said Harris can “absolutely” win in her home state of Pennsylvania and vowed to do “everything I can” to get Harris over the line. finish line in the race he must win. oscillation state.
“I’m from Pittsburgh, so I get to meet and talk to a bunch of people and, you know, take pictures, sign autographs and do what I need to do,” Cuban said of his role in boosting the vice president.
He also made controversial comments on The View, suggesting that Trump doesn’t surround himself with “smart women.”
‘Donald Trump: you never see him surrounded by strong and intelligent women. It’s that simple,” the prominent Kamala Harris supporter said from inside one of his private planes in an interview with The View.
‘It’s that simple. They seem intimidating to you. He doesn’t like to be challenged.
He has phone-banked the vice president and appeared at her rallies
The comments sparked a backlash in the former president’s inner circle, and even liberal host Joy Behar disagreed with Cuban’s comments, saying that even Stormy Daniels “was smart.”
The Trump campaign also seized on the comments as evidence to support its claim that Democrats, including Kamala Harris, despise voters who support the former president.
Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the comments were “extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump and the tens of millions of women who proudly vote for him.”
“Joe Biden called Trump supporters trash, and now Kamala’s top surrogate, Mark Cuban, has suggested that women who support Trump are ‘weak and stupid,'” she said.
The billionaire investor has since admitted that he made a mistake on air.
‘It’s part of politics, it was my mistake and I apologized for it. “I certainly wasn’t saying anything negative about anyone supporting Trump,” Cuban told DailyMail.com.
When asked what his wife of 22 years thought of his comments, he said, “Tiffany watched the entire interview and didn’t have a problem.” She knew what he was trying to say.
‘You also know that when I do hundreds of interviews, there will be a few that I get wrong. I failed many more interviews with the Mavs and the NBA fined me. So she’s used to it,” he added, referring to when he owned the Dallas Mavericks.