Trump in talks to buy socialite Kluge's Charlottesville vineyard and estate

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Trump in talks to buy socialite Kluge's Charlottesville vineyard and estate

Hey, he can run for the Senate. Ruh-roh.

Trump in talks to buy socialite Kluge's Charlottesville vineyard and estate

By Annie Gowen and Steve Yanda
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Embattled Virginia socialite and winemaker Patricia Kluge may have found a white knight to preserve her Charlottesville empire - real estate mogul Donald Trump.

Trump's business adviser said Wednesday that Trump was negotiating to buy not only Kluge's grand estate, Albemarle House, which a bank foreclosed on in January, but all of Kluge's former real estate holdings outside Charlottesville near Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate.
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Trump's representative appeared at a foreclosure auction of Kluge's large estate on the courthouse steps in downtown Charlottesville Wednesday morning, where a crowd of about 50 lawyers and curiosity seekers had gathered.

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