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By -- Hollywood Reporter —— Bio and Archives December 12, 2018

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On June 11, 2017, a photograph of President Donald Trump crashing a wedding a day earlier at his golf course resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, went viral. Jonathan Otto, a vice president at Deustche Bank, snapped the photo on his iPhone. He sent the photo of Trump with the bride to another wedding guest, Sean Burke, who apparently sent it to others, including a relative of the bride, who posted it on Instagram. That's when the media discovered it. After the photo appeared on TMZ and CNN and in The Washington Post and the Daily Mail, Otto texted Burke and asked, "Hey, TMZ & others using my photo above without credit/compensation. You send to anyone? I want my cut.” -- More...



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