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As two new women come forward with disturbing new accusations about Donald Trumps alleged inappropriate behavior, were looking at another side of the republican nominee for president. Trump prides himself as a businessman. What does a billiondollar gamble in Atlantic City resort casino say about him . The taj mahal closed this week leaving behind several people who tell us they are still reeling from the trump effect. Heres abcs sunny hostin in our election countdown series inside the final 30. Its hard because im rich. Im rich. Ive been a very successful guy. Very successful businessman. Reporter donald trump has built a brand and a Political Campaign based on his business success. I made my money as a successful private businessperson. Reporter but one of his businesses didnt turn out the way he may have hoped. When i tried to Order Room Service at the trump taj mahal last saturday dining is closed at this time. There will be no room service for me tonight. Reporter thats because i was here on the last night of its existence. The hotel was advertised as the eighth wonder of the world when it opened in 1990. One step beyond your wildest imagination reporter a symbol of Donald Trumps meteoric rise as a real estate tycoon. Filled with trumps signature glitz and gold, it cost nearly 1 billion to build. Is it necessary to build on such a scale . The scale, charlie, is what brings the people. The opulence. The size. The everything is what really is going to make the taj mahal i think the most Successful Hotel anywhere in the world. Reporter monday at 5 59 a. M. , the doors were locked at the taj after 26 years, leaving thousands of middleclassworkers without jobs. How did trumps crown jewel go from this im really happy with what im seeing. Reporter to this . I got to show you a picture of what the casino looked like. It was pretty remarkable. Take a look at this. Wow. Its eerie. What do you think is the significance of the fact that the taj mahal ended in bankruptcy and was just deserted . It was a Signature Development for him. A signature moment for him. And a signature disaster for him. Reporter the story of the taj start in the late 1980s. Donald trump had successfully completed trump tower in manhattan. He set his sights on Atlantic City. Gobbling up three casinos and stamping his name on every one. The trump plaza, trump castle, and the grandest of them all, the trump taj mahal which he got for a song after the original owner couldnt complete construction. He threw a grand opening as lavish as the hotel itself. The spectacle captured for robin leach, journalist to the stars. Special guest michael jackson. Fans swept away Elle Mcpherson but the casino topped 2 million for the day reporter that might sound impressive but one man said he knew it wasnt sustainable, robin rothman, a gaming industry financial analyst. And i said, well, why would you want to have three casinos . One is going to cannibalize the other. Reporter weeks before the casino opened, he told the wall street journal when this property opens, he will have had so much free publicity, he will break every record in the books in april, june and july. Once the cold winds blow from october to february, it wont make it. The market just isnt there. These are the quotes that made donald trump angry . Livid. Reporter what came next made headlines. Nightline covered the story. You apparently saw things with some clarity, at least as far as the taj mahal was concerned. And yet when you spoke out on that, you got canned. Reporter donald trump was so upset with rothmans grim prediction that he is said to have called up his boss and said, either make rothman apologize publicly or fire him. He fired me on the spot. Reporter rothman says what really worried him about the taj mahal was how he says donald trump had financed it, with an extremely highinterest loan. The taj would have to make close to 1. 3 million a day to break even. No casino in the world ever had that kind of number. Reporter but rothman turned out to be exactly right about the taj. It could not bring in enough money and a little over a year after it opened the taj mahal filed for bankruptcy and trumps other two Atlantic City casinos followed suit the next year. Was he a good businessman when it came to casinos and gaming . Absolutely not. Reporter rothman sued his employer for wrongful termination and a judge found in rothmans favor, awarding him 750,000. He also sued donald trump for defamation of character. Trump settled that suit out of court with no admission of wrongdoing. But trump had other problems with the taj mahal. It was the toughest construction job ive ever had. Toughest construction job most people have ever seen. Reporter one of those involved in the tajs construction was martin rosenberg. Had i known trump was going to take over the job, i would have never done the job. Reporter he says the taj job nearly cost him his company, which was contracted to provide glass mirrors and doors. He promised if we did a good job, we would get paid. Reporter he says trump owed him over 1 million and he wasnt alone. Rosenberg says trump didnt honor the contracts of over 100 krar contractors who helped complete the taj mahal. The man didnt pay it because he didnt have the money, bottom line. I wondered if you might consider doing an interview with me . Reporter getting other people like rosenberg to talk to my producer for this story was extraordinarily difficult. I sent an email to confirm, date ask time, for the past weekend. And he just literally vanished. Reporter rosenberg would speak because hes already gone head to head with donald trump. You took on donald trump. Somebody had to do it. Reporter rosenberg and six other of the contractors banded together on behalf of the entire group and forced a meeting with trump. I had a telephone call from mr. Trumps personal attorney. I said, we want to get paid. He says, how can i stop this meeting . I said, its relatively simple, give me a check. Reporter after several rounds of negotiations rosenberg says he and the other contractors settled with trump for less tan what they were owed, with devastating results. Some went bankrupt. Some lost their businesses. We survived because we were very busy in Atlantic City. Reporter this summer, rosenberg shared his experiences of working for trump at a Hillary Clinton campaign event. I am here today to help ensure that this sort of manipulation of people by trump will not continue on a national stage. So people may say that Hillary Clinton paid you to tell this story. Inaccurate. I was never offered anything. Nor i would have taken anything. Reporter trump solved his interest in the taj mahal in 2009 and his friend and supporter carl icahn eventually took it on in 2016. In an email statement about the taj mahal closure his Campaign Spokesperson said, mr. Trump has not been involved for many years and has been given great credit for his timing. He told Bloomberg News getting out of Atlantic City was just good business. Atlantic city, its a very sad situation, just too much competition. Reporter what he left behind when he left were loyal employees, many of whom started at the taj 26 years ago. Day oneers like Charles Baker. 85 of us have been here since day one. Reporter the union for the casino workers clashed with carl icahn over things like Health Benefits and paid lunch breaks. Cant give back, i have nothing else to give. Theyve taken everything from me that ive ever worked for. Reporter negotiations between the union and icahn failed so these tauj employees went on strike, prompting icahn to close the taj for good. On his website carl icahn posted this statement about the closure of the taj mahal saying in part, like many of the employees of the taj mahal i wish things had turned out differently. For Charles Baker theres no question how he will vote in november. Not donald trump. Why not . I dont believe in anything he says. He took his money and he left. So i dont see him doing anything great for america. They say in the casino business that the house always wins . Well, look around. The house lost this time. For nightline, im sunny hostin in Atlantic City. You can watch the final president ial debate wednesday, october 19th, right here on abc at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Next, Michael Strahan lives every music fans dream, rocking out with jon bon jovi. Who says you cant go home choose effortless glide from side to side. Choose kneeloving, underarmcaring, bikini linebearing. Choose venus swirl. With five contour blades and a flexiball, it pivots with every dip and divot. Choose to smooth. 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Because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying their first bowl today. After 33 years, bon jovi is still rocking hard, the band releasing its first album since the departure of guitarist ricky sambo sambora. Follow now not much was known about the split. Michael strahan got some answers. Hometown boy reporter this is a pitch me moment. Onstage with the one and only bon jovi. Its all right its all right its all right its all right when i was in germany, sitting in the living room, in front of the tv, the government station, and you guys were on. And no way in the world did i think i ever would meet you. I love you. Well give it a shot reporter the band bon jovi going strong for more than 30 years. Living on a prayer reporter thanks to classics like living on a prayer, they sold more than 130 million albums and still sell out arenas. They hit a rough patch during their last tour when ricky sambora, guitarist and cowriter, suddenly quit. What happened . Show number 21, the short of it is ritchie didnt show up at the show. And we havent seen him in person since. There was no fooilight, there w nothing, i swear on my career, hell tell you the same thing. Reporter sambora told the today show in australia he needed to go home. I needed time to be with my daughter. She needed me. And i needed her, actually. You havent seen him since . No, no one in the band has. He had some things hes got to deal with. So he just didnt show up anymore. So we went on. For those 80 shows, david, tico and myself, we had to take up that extra space. Reporter tico and david bryan are founding members of bon jovi. Has it made you closer . Yes, it definitely did. It hurt when he just decided to quit. We looked at each other and said, we want to keep going. Weve experienced more together as boys and then as men than we did with our own siblings because we spent our entire adult lives together. Sexless marriage. Yeah, its a sexless marriage. Reporter 30 years later the band with beloved anthems yike you give love a bad name is gearing up to release their 14th album. This house is not for sale. This house is not for sale this house is not for sale, bold statement. What does that mean . Integrity. This is not for sale. Did you know it was a hit when you write it . Absolutely not. Ive missed more than ive hit it. Really . Ive walked out of the room going, yeah. Living on a prayer almost never made it. Ritchie had to tell me, youre out of your mind. Reporter his wife of 27 years, dorothy yeah, has kept jon bon jovi grounded. I found the right girl when i was in high school. She makes me better every day. She makes me smile inside and out. Im blessed. It must be nice to have somebody who supports you no matter what, who always has your back, who who calls your bs. Okay, rock icon, the garbage needs to go out. Reporter together the couple has two grown children and two teenagers. Im curious how they view you. Jake, my 14yearold, its all coming into focus for him. Hes like, really . Im like, yeah. He goes, i just thought you sat on the couch. I said, yeah, i sit on the couch waiting for you to come home because the rest of the time id been out there doing music. Reporter hed been politically active for years. He and his wife started the Soul Foundation. Three cinderblock walls in a threebay body shop and it was not pretty. Reporter it addresses issues of hunger and housing in new jersey and philadelphia and includes two Soul Kitchen Community restaurants. This little 33seat restaurant has now served 59,000 meals. To both a paying and a volunteer crowd. Our motto what is we call pay it forward. If you were to come in, you leave a 20 that covers your meal and covers a meal for somebody who cant put down the same money. Then somebody who is in need of a meal volunteers. Come work in our gardens, bus a table, wash a dish. You come and you participate. We empower people. You treat people with dignity, which is big. Oh, yeah, very important. Its all anybody asks in this world, right . Not to be judged. When youre here, what do you do . I used to wash dishers. I no longer am allowed. Youre a bad dishwasher . Im a great dishwasher. How can you not be allowed to wash dishes . Theres the point, im taking a volunteer opportunity away from somebody coming to earn their meal and wanted that empowerment. Reporter hes moving on to broader recognition. Last month jon bon jovi received the Clinton Foundation Global Citizen award for his philanthropic work. I have as much pride in what we do in the Soul Foundation and the soul kitchens as i do any record, and i mean that. Because i know the lives that we touch. Hometown boy reporter hes been there, done that, and he aint looking back. For nightline, im Michael Strahan in no one. When we come back, a woman in new york city giving relationship tips to couples who jump into a mobile bed with her. 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Lets talk about sex reporter but with a mobile fourposter bed. Sex sells. Especially with free advice. Weve been trying to communicate a bit more often in bed. My best advice is to start through texting. Get him to read erotica, it opens things up. Reporter sex and the city. In a city of 8. 4 Million People, could this sexspert get busy new yorkers to talk about getting busy . I think people in the u. S. Tend to be more closedoff to talking about sex until you open the door. Reporter the lifestyle guru teaming up with british Sex Toy Company hot octopus to bring pillow talk to the big apple. Dont go far, im serious, you can ask me anything. Reporter meeting people from all walks of life to figure out why were so uncomfortable talking dirty. Why do we have such a problem with that . Because we have a problem with intimacy. Im out here to teach and to educate and share. But im also here to learn. Reporter maybe even learning a secret to a harmonious marriage. 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