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Yakyu Night Owl
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There was a member of the New York Yankees who kept a teenager locked in his apartment at the Trump Tower.

Here is a picture of them that appeared in the Yankees yearbook. The team apparently didn't think it was odd at all to have an outfielder take a girl to her prom.

Remember this was when Jerry Seinfeld was dating a high school softball player, so it wasn't an outlier in accepted New York culture. Kids were fair game.

Mel Hall is in prison for crimes against kids. The white guys ain't.

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Mel Hall and "Jennifer" at her high school prom. This photograph appeared in the annual Yankees yearbook.
Yakyu Night Owl
@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world

"When the Yankees season started in April, Hall decided he wanted Jennifer to live with him in his new place in Trump Tower. She was two months shy of graduating from high school in Florida, but Hall told her she didn't need to graduate as long as he was providing for her. To this day, Jennifer doesn't have a high school diploma."

2/5

Yakyu Night Owl
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"She spent most of 1992 cooped up in Trump Tower, where Hall's limo driver kept an eye on her to make sure she didn't leave for long stretches to hang out with friends. Her one indulgence was going to the Carnegie Deli every afternoon for an egg sandwich."

3/5

Yakyu Night Owl
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"Hall and Jennifer once went out to dinner with their neighbors down the hall, Donald Trump and Marla Maples, Trump's girlfriend and later his second wife. But at a certain point, as Jennifer remembers, the relationship between Hall and Trump soured, which Jennifer believes resulted from Hall's being behind on rent."

4/5

Yakyu Night Owl
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"She remembers Trump approaching her with a challenging smile one day and asking, "What are you doing with this guy?"

https://archive.ph/3Bcu2

This is just one teenager involved with a member of the Yankees who kept her in his apartment like a housepet, and exactly nobody gave a shit.

The retroactive pearl clutching by anyone familiar with New York culture is an act.

5/5

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