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From: Sent: 2/17/2011 6:19:01 PM To: jeevacation@gmail.com Subject: Trump & Patricia Kluge Importance: High Trump in talks to buy socialite Kluge's Charlottesville vineyard and estate By Annie Gowen and Steve Yanda Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 16, 2011; 10:47 PM Embattled Virginia socialite and winemaker Patricia Kluge may have found a white knight to preserve her Charlottesville empire - real estate mogul Donald Trump. Trump's business adviser said Wednesday that Trump was negotiating to buy not only Kluge's grand estate, Albemarle House, which a bank foreclosed on in January, but all of Kluge's former real estate holdings outside Charlottesville near Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate. Those include 200 acres of land adjacent to the estate that once had a nine-hole golf course designed by Arnold Palmer, a 900-acre vineyard and a failed real estate development where Kluge had planned to market luxury "farmettes" with their own grapevines. Leslie Goldman, a Washington-based adviser to Trump, said it would be "premature to speculate" what Trump had planned for the area, but said the land has "significant historical value and potential for development." "Obviously, the more acreage, the more pieces you acquire, the more possibilities there are," he said. Trump has already made forays into Virginia real estate. In 2009, he purchased a 600-acre golf club along the Potomac River in Loudoun County and renamed it the Trump National Golf Club. He raised the ire of local environmentalists last summer after the club removed hundreds of trees that it claimed threatened the shoreline. Trump's representative appeared at a foreclosure auction of Kluge's large estate on the courthouse steps in downtown Charlottesville Wednesday morning, where a crowd of about 50 lawyers and curiosity seekers had gathered. In the past year, Kluge's travails have become well-known around Charlottesville, where over the last two decades the British-bo […]