Article: Facing foreclosure, McMahon gets a financial lift from Trump.(Front)

By Ann Brenoff

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES

Mega-developer and TV personality Donald Trump has agreed to buy Ed McMahon's Beverly Hills house for an undisclosed amount and allow McMahon to continue living in it. Details of the deal still are being ironed out, but Trump's interest is regarded as an act of benevolence.

"I don't know the man, but I grew up watching him on TV," Trump said .

McMahon, 85, was facing foreclosure within two weeks on his home of 18 years. The aging television icon, who was Johnny Carson's sidekick for three decades, defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with Countrywide Financial Corp. He said in interviews that he was ...

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