The Trump World Tower doorman involved in an alleged “catch and kill” scheme — in which he was paid $30,000, according to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s indictment — claims that the former president’s company forced his resignation and “blacklisted” him to his union.
Dino Sajudin, 51, relates his experience working at the building, near the United Nations in Manhattan, in his 2021 self-published book “Trump Doorman.”
In it, he makes the same explosive, discredited claim for which he was allegedly paid the hush money: That Trump fathered an out-of-wedlock child with a “rude” concierge at the Tower.
Trump’s lawyers strongly denied Sajudin’s claims.
Bragg’s office claimed that, from August 2015 to December 2017, Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen orchestrated a so-called “catch and kill” scheme with David Pecker, CEO of magazine publisher American Media Inc. (which published the National Enquirer), to conceal negative stories.
Among them was Sajudin’s, who admits that he contacted AMI after he was forced to resign.
The former physical trainer claims to have worked with celebrities and captains of industry before taking the job as a doorman in 2008. He describes the Trump Organization as a place that “reminded me of the gangsters of Brooklyn,” where he grew up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood.
Sajudin claims that, when he complained about the concierge at the tower — a Colombian-born woman who, he said, was often rude to residents — he was warned by Trump Organization officials to keep quiet.
“I had to wonder what it was about her that kept her in the tower’s good graces,” Sajudin writes.
He adds that he soon found out that the woman, who is not named in his book, had worked as a housekeeper for the Trump family in the past and was given special treatment as a result.
In addition to taking long lunches and buying “$3,000 handbags and $500 shoes” at Bergdorf, the concierge allegedly pushed everyone around, including top Trump executives.
At one point, he claims, a man he described only as “Mr. C” — who ran the Trump Organization’s day-to-day operations — told him that the woman was the mother of a daughter Trump had fathered out of wedlock.
“Little Tiffany and Ivanka are not the only girls out there carrying the big guy’s DNA,” Sajudin alleges in the book. “As time went on I continued to complain to my union boss about the head concierge.
“One day, Mr. C looked at me dead in the face and said, ‘Dino when you have Trump’s kid, you can do whatever the hell you want to,’” writes Sajudin.
Cohen told The Post that he is not “Mr. C.”
The Post previously reported that the unnamed woman at the center of the story “emphatically” denied that she had an affair with Trump, telling the Associated Press: “This is all fake.”
A Trump spokesperson told The Post Wednesday: “Everything about this is false and easily disproven as fake news.”
Eventually, “things got pretty heated” between Sajudin and the concierge, he writes. “The tension and pressure kept escalating.”
He writes that he was initially offered $400,000 for the story of the alleged Trump love child, but the fee was quickly reduced. Tuesday’s court filing details previously reported allegations that AMI paid him $30,000.
Bragg’s indictment notes that, while AMI paid for the story, the company then came to the conclusion that there was no merit to it. Sajudin had no other evidence to back up his claims.
“I’m merely telling my story,” writes Sajudin, who claims he was inspired to do so after New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow showed up at his door a few years ago to ask about it.
He reportedly signed a contract with AMI that included a gag order putting him on the hook for $1 million if he were to go public with the story. The gag order was lifted shortly after Farrow’s story about the love child claim published in 2018.
“I wanted to shine a light on the wall I was pushed up against,” writes Sajudin, who claimed that after he left the Trump Organization with eight weeks’ severance, he was unable to work again as a doorman — allegedly because Trump Organization executives “blacklisted” him to his union.
