The casino even had a cameo in the film Ocean's Eleven. 'They were very down-to-earth people,' Mr Gatewood said. Ron Gatewood, a food and beverage worker at Trump Plaza from 1986 until it closed in 2014, brought food and drinks to stars including Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross and Barry White in their hotel rooms. 'It was like that a lot: You had Madonna and Sean Penn walking in, Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson, Muhammad Ali would be there, Oprah sitting with Donald ringside,' he recalled.
One night before a Tyson fight I stopped dead in my tracks and looked about four rows in as the place was filling up, and there were two guys leaning in close and having a private conversation: Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.' 'Everyone from Hulk Hogan to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was the whole gamut of personalities. 'The way we put Trump Plaza and the city of Atlantic City on the map for the whole world was really incredible,' said Bernie Dillon, the events manager for the casino from 1984 to 1991.
