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Is there a cheaper billionaire than Donald Trump?
With all that dough, you'd think the presidential aspirant might use some green to benefit society (because those garish skyscrapers and Atlantic City clip joints ain't the grandest legacy).
Alas, the Donald J. Trump Foundation has donated a paltry total of $475,624 over the past five years, according to these excerpts from the group's IRS returns for 1994-98. Compared to other business barons like Bill Gates and David Geffen, The Donald looks like a lousy penny-pincher.
According to Forbes magazine, Trump is worth $1.6 billion--so his 1998 charity of $212,403 amounts to a whopping.00013 of his stash. Impressive, Donny. (6 pages)
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