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Elderly woman sues after claiming ride on Trump Tower’s ‘golden escalator’ led to ‘permanent’ injuries

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An elderly New York City woman is suing President Donald Trump’s family business following an incident involving Trump Tower’s “golden escalator” that allegedly left her badly hurt.

Mariko Hosoi, 76, “was lawfully and carefully inside the glass-enclosed atrium of the Trump Tower” on Dec. 29, 2024, when she took the building’s trademark gold-tone escalator from the lobby up to the second floor of the commander-in-chief’s eponymous Midtown Manhattan skyscraper, according to a newly filed lawsuit obtained by The Independent.

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