In Donald J. Trump's version of how he got rich, he was the primary dealmaker who parlayed an initial $1 million loan from his male parent into a $10 billion empire. Information technology was his guts and gumption that overcame setbacks, and his father, Fred C. Trump, was just a cheerleader.

But an investigation past The New York Times shows that by age 3, Donald Trump was earning $200,000 a twelvemonth in today'due south dollars from his male parent's empire. He was a millionaire by age viii. By the fourth dimension he was 17, his father had given him part buying of a 52-unit of measurement flat building. Shortly afterward he graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s.

In all, financial records reveal, Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father'southward existent estate empire.

Here are four ways that Fred Trump made his children rich.

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Fred Trump made his son not simply his salaried employee but also his property manager, landlord, consultant and banker.

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Fred Trump provided money for Donald Trump'due south automobile, money for his employees, money to buy stocks, money for his offset Manhattan offices and money to renovate those offices. He gave him shares in multiple partnerships. He gave him $x,000 Christmas checks. He gave him laundry acquirement from his buildings. He besides gave him trust funds that were used to transfer a bulk of Fred Trump'due south empire to Donald Trump and his living siblings.

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The biggest payday Donald Trump ever got from his father came long after Fred Trump'south death. Information technology happened quietly, without the usual Trumpian news briefing, on May iv, 2004, when Donald Trump and his siblings sold off the empire their male parent had spent 70 years assembling with the dream that it would never leave his family.

Donald Trump's cutting: $177.three million, or $236.2 meg in today's dollars.

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