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At work on a Profile of the then struggling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, Mark Singer took a plane ride with him and Ghislaine Maxwell, who called up a friend named Jeffrey. For decades, the scene stuck in Singer’s mind. Plus:

The humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan

A Sikh-separatist assassination plot

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump, in October of 1997. Photograph by Richard Corkery / NY Daily News Archive / Getty

Mark Singer

A staff writer at the magazine since 1974.

Since I began writing Profiles for The New Yorker, fifty years ago, my preferred subjects have been non

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