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POLITICO Playbook: Washington's mystery mansion buyer unmasked

• By RYAN LIZZA, EUGENE DANIELS, TARA PALMERI and RA

THE TRUMP HOTEL IS BEING SOLD — WSJ's Craig Karmin scooped Sunday afternoon that "DONALD TRUMP's family hotel company has reached an agreement to sell the rights to its glittering Washington, D.C., hotel for $375 million."

SCOOP: THIS COULD BE MAGA WORLD'S NEW D.C. MEETING SPOT — In August, former Trump Commerce Secretary WILBUR ROSS and his wife HILARY GEARY ROSS sold their 10,000-square-foot home in Woodland-Normanstone for $13 million, according to D.C. tax records. It is the most expensive D.C. home sale of the last 12 months.

The August deal was shrouded in mystery. The purchaser used an LLC called Salona Village Holdings that concealed their identity. The Rosses are barred by a confidentiality agreement from disclosing the real buyer's name, Geary Ross told Daniel Lippman.

But the secret is out.

According to multiple sources, the anonymous buyer behind the LLC is PETER THIEL, the German-born billionaire co-founder of PayPal and friend of Trump. It is "common knowledge" among neighbors and real estate sources, one well-informed person told Playbook.


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