Patricia Kluge

• 1987: Trump attended an AIDS fundraising benefit hosted by Patricia Kluge. “Patricia Kluge was seated in the flower-decked Grand Ballroom of the Plaza, diamonds sparkling at her ears, neck and fingers, the skirt of her floral-patterned Scaasi ball gown billowing around her. ‘It's the first society party for AIDS,’ she said. ‘It's a small thing, but we're doing what we can.; As a co-chairman of the Embassy Ball, she might have considered it small because there were fewer than 300 guests. But it wasn't so small considering that it was the end of a five-day fund-raising event for AIDS research that included a weekend at La Costa, the California spa. The ball, which has brought in $300,000 so far, had a guest list of European nobility and American power brokers. Among them were Carolyne Roehm and Henry Kravis, who underwrote many of the expenses, along with Carroll and Milton Petrie, Mary Lasker, Ivana and Donald Trump, Estee Lauder, Geraldine Stutz, Lord and Lady Rothermere, Kimberly and Jonathan Farkas, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes and Countess Donina Cicogna.” (New York Times, May 8, 1987)