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The Donald has been quietly buying up parcels of land around the Beverly Hills Hotel. So far, he owns four properties totaling four acres and is eyeing a fifth - a stunning 1950s home owned by Niels Kantor, who runs a noted Melrose Avenue art gallery, an insider tells us. Trump had no comment, but our source says the developer has no plans for the sites as yet. “He’s just buying because he likes owning great land and the prices are good,” the spy said.

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Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger is being dragged kicking and screaming into the messy defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed against New York Times Sunday business editor Timothy O’Brien.

A Manhattan judge has ordered the baby-faced publisher to submit to a deposition by Trump’s lawyers, who believe he’ll bolster their case that O’Brien slimed Trump in “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald.” In his 2005 book, O’Brien asserted Trump was worth just $150 million to $250 million. Trump insists he’s worth billions and says O’Brien hurt his reputation.

Sulzberger, who fought the deposition, will now have to discuss his chats with O’Brien about Trump. In one e-mail exchange, first reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sulzberger praises the book, and the author responds: “Donald is easy to lampoon, but harder to portray accurately (and deep down inside he’s really sort of likable - in the way that endearing but out of control 8-year-olds are likable).”

In another 2005 message, O’Brien predicts Trump will “go ballistic” over portions of the book, but adds: “He did see the cover art . . . and called to tell me: ‘I loooovvve this. I look like some kind of superhero. Like a Marvel superhero.’ ”

A source close to Trump told Page Six: “They are dying to settle, but Trump doesn’t want to. They know the numbers are closer to $10 billion and they’ve got a lot of inaccuracies in the book.”

The source said the O’Brien-Sulzberger e-mails will embarrass both men. “O’Brien ridicules Sulzberger,” our insider said. “O’Brien sends him a copy of his book anonymously and Sulzberger gets in touch and says, ‘Hey I got your book . . . and I read it!’ And O’Brien goes, ‘Whoa! I can’t believe you got it. You’re a genius! How did you get it?’ He thinks Sulzberger is a dummy.”

Trump is not suing the Times, even though the paper excerpted the book. O’Brien had no comment. A rep for Sulzberger didn’t get back to us.

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Donald Trump is going to become a grandfather again – his son, Donald Jr., and wife Vanessa are expecting their second child.

Vanessa tells PEOPLE she is 3 ½ months pregnant and due in February.

“We’re so excited,” she said. We just told the family this past Monday. They thought it was great news. I couldn’t hide it any more. The second time you show faster.”

The Trumps already have a baby girl, Kai Madison, born in May 2007. “I’m feeling very tired – the first time around I could put my feet up and relax. This time I have a baby to run after and carry.”

How is Kai taking the news of a sibling? “I point to my belly, and tell her there’s a baby in my belly,” says Vanessa. “She points to her belly button and thinks there’s a baby there. I say, ‘Not for you, for mama.’ ”

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Donald Trump will soon be Ed McMahon’s landlord.

Trump announced Thursday he would save the television personality’s Beverly Hills mansion from foreclosure by buying it for an undisclosed amount and leasing it to McMahon.

The developer told the Los Angeles Times he doesn’t know McMahon personally, but acted out of compassion because helping out “would be an honor.”

McMahon, 85, who was Johnny Carson’s sidekick on the “Tonight” show for three decades, has not worked for about 18 months because of a neck injury. He defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with Countrywide Financial Corp.

McMahon’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, told The Associated Press that paperwork on the sale had not been completed but that McMahon was “very optimistic” the deal would go through.

“When I was at the Wharton School of Business I’d watch him every night,” Trump told the Times. “How could this happen?”

McMahon bought the six-bedroom, five-bathroom, 7,000-square-foot house in January 1990. The home was listed at $4.6 million last weekend — down from a peak price of $7 million.

He’s suing the Morrison Cohen law firm for $5 million for mentioning he was a client on its Web site. “They put my name up all over their ads like I’m in love with them, and I really don’t like them,” Trump told The Post’s Dareh Gregorian. Trump also sued the barristers in Westchester last year, claiming they bungled a real-estate case and overcharged him. Morrison Cohen lawyer David Scharf counters that they won a multimillion-dollar judgment for Trump and that he’s just trying to get out of paying. “He owes our firm about $600,000,” Scharf said. Trump said he sent them a cease-and-desist letter demanding they take references to him off their site. “If it was somebody I was happy with, that would be one thing, but I’m not happy with them,” Trump said. Scharf said he would not take Trump’s name off his site because his firm indeed worked for him.

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