A Florida woman with no apparent personal connection to Donald Trump bequeathed the former president a condo in a community for the 55-and-up crowd. Trump, who famously cashed a check for 13 cents that Spy Magazine sent him, accepted the condo in 2023 and dutifully reported it on his personal financial disclosure, which he filed earlier this month.
In March 1994, back when Trump was busy digging himself out of a series of bankruptcies, Barbara J. Fischer bought unit 112 in Boundbrook Condominium No. 2 in West Palm Beach, Florida. She paid $36,000, about $77,000 in today’s dollars, for the 920-square-foot, two-bedroom condo. It’s about 10 minutes and a world away from Mar-a-Lago, the Mediterranean-style estate on 18 acres of beachfront property that Trump bought almost a decade earlier for $10 million.
Fischer, who was childless and never married, died in August 2022 at age 84. Eight months later, her will was filed with the Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The beneficiaries: a friend, who served as her estate’s personal representative, received $50,000 and her black 2018 Honda Accord; a........