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By Carl Campanile and Kate Sheehy
Published June 21, 2016, 8:03 p.m. ET
Donald Trump has been doling out diamond cuff links to unsuspecting pals as presents — but they’re actually fabulous fakes, sources say.
At least three recipients later learned that the glittery gifts were valuable only as mementos from Trump.
Actor Charlie Sheen recently called out The Donald for the ruse, saying Trump once gave him his own cuff links as a wedding present and boasted that they came
from one of the city’s leading jewelers.
“He says . . . ‘I want to give you an early wedding gift as a gesture from me
and Melania’ — and she doesn’t say a word, she’s very sweet and very pretty but
just kinda sits there,” Sheen told the BBC, referring to a time he ran into Trump and his wife in a restaurant about five years ago.
“He says, ‘These are platinum diamond Harry Winston,’ and he pulls off his cuff
links, and he gives them to me.”
The actor said he took the links to an appraiser six months later, only to learn
that they were worthless.
“She took [her magnifying] loupe, spent about 4 seconds and kind of recoiled from it,” Sheen quipped. “She says, ‘In their finest moment, this is cheap
pewter and bad zirconias.’ And they’re stamped ‘Trump.’”
The real estate mogul pulled the same stunt on his mentor, famed late pitbull lawyer Roy Cohn, years earlier, according to another report.
Trump gave Cohn a pair of “diamond-encrusted’’ cuff links and buttons in a box
from famed jeweler Bulgari as a present, said the New York Times.
Cohn’s partner, Peter Fraser, who inherited the items, said he later had them appraised, and they turned out to be knock-offs.
A Trump source told The Post on Tuesday that after The Donald engaged in a fake ringside take-down of wrestling honcho Vince McMahon in 2007, he griped to the promoter that he lost one of his “Trump-stamped’’ cuff links worth $50,000.
The source said the links were actually valued at less than $100.
https://nypost.com/2016/06/21/trump-has-been-giving-out-fake-diamond-cuff-links-for-years/
What a fucking chiseler!
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