The Taj was a monument to excess - more than 500 feet high, 17 acres of minarets, mirrors, purple carpets, elephants and giant chandeliers.
Then, after a boardroom tussle over control of another firm, Resorts International, Trump ended up with the biggest property of all: the Taj Mahal, then the largest of the city’s casinos. failed to win a New Jersey gaming license, Trump snapped up its already-built casino and christened it Trump’s Castle it opened a year after the Trump Plaza, in 1985.
