A victorious Donald Trump said his lawyers prevailed at a trial in Chicago over a disputed condo sale at his high-rise luxury hotel because the other side didn't have any evidence.



"I'm rich and I'm from New York – that's all they had," Trump today said in a phone interview after the verdict.



Trump had testified last week at the trial and later accused his 87-year-old legal foe of playing "the age card."



Jacqueline Goldberg, the elderly Evanston woman who said Trump had wronged her, addressed reporters in the lobby of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse with a warm smile. She did not express any regrets.



"I had to do it," she said. "I had to try."



She also said she felt good about "exposing" Trump and offered this advice for anyone going into business with him: "Read the contract."



Trump's attorney, Stephan Novack, said Goldberg's lawyer tried to turn the court fight into a New York versus Chicago battle involving the world's most famous businessman.



"We were all confident, but nobody ever knows for sure how a jury is going to decide it," he said. "There's no doubt justice was done. It was done in the best possible way. We had eight jurors – all of whom are Chicagoans – none of whom bought into this 'Let's hate N.Y.' And that's how justice is done."