And then there was John Gotti, the crime boss. With a dollop of rigatoni in veal Bolognese on her plate, Ms. Gotti, 56, formerly a columnist for The New York Post and David Pecker’s Star magazine, recalled a particular churning of the city’s tabloid underworld. “I was working at The Post and Trump asked me to do a piece on the Atlantic City fiasco,” she said, referring to one of the future president’s failed casinos. I’d seen him in passing and he always was very generous, he’d either pick up a bill or stop at the table. But then he said to me: ‘Your dad and I, we’ve been in each other’s company.

Source: New York Times February 14, 2019 21:20 UTC