In Aras Agalarov’s telling, the first time he met President Donald Trump was in the lobby of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel before the 2013 Miss USA pageant. A crowd had gathered to gawk at “The Apprentice†star.
Their camaraderie was instantaneous.
“Look who came to me! This is the richest man in Russia!” Trump warmly declared, as he met Agalarov — the Kremlin-connected oligarch now at the center of a scandal engulfing the White House.
That first encounter, described by Agalarov a few months later in an interview with a Russian news outlet, kickstarted a friendship that helped bring Trump’s Miss Universe pageant …read more
Source: European Voice
