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COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Never having met Timothy O'Brien, the Times reporter who finds himself on the receiving end of a five-billion-dollar libel-and-defamation suit from Donald Trump, I don't presume to know whether he's having fun yet. But I doubt that I'm alone among members of the Fourth Estate in experiencing a twinge of envy. Talk about pennies from Heaven! Overnight, sales of O'Brien's book "TrumpNation," the vivisection of the alleged mogul which prompted the litigation, moved it from 123,329 to 466 in the Amazon.com rankings.
Trump's complaint says that O'Brien has damaged his business reputation by lowballing his net worth. According to Forbes, he is "worth" $2.7 billion; according to Trump, "read Forbes and double it." O'Brien reports that the true figure is in the range of $150...
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