Paul Gapp

• 1984: Trump filed a $500 million libel suit against Paul Gapp, an architecture critic who had argued that his proposals for a skyscraper in New York were bad ideas. “Donald Trump, the developer, clearly thinks architecture critics are the most powerful people in the building business. There can be no other explanation for the $500-million libel suit he has just filed against the architecture critic of The Chicago Tribune, Paul Gapp, and the Tribune Company, taking issue with a column Mr. Gapp wrote in mid-August questioning Mr. Trump's proposal to build the world's tallest building, a 150-story skyscraper off the southern tip of Manhattan.” (New York Times, Paul Goldberger column, October 14, 1984)