The elder Sherman was 94.
Sherman was an out-of-work sports journalist with no experience in publicity in 1982 when he applied for the job of public relations head for the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.
Trump, then a real-estate magnate and the owner of the franchise, "didn't care that he had never worked in public relations, and hired him on the spot," his son said.
Before that, Sherman had made his living as a journalist at the Long Island Press, Newsday and the New York Herald Tribune.
He also made repeated appearances as a judge on TV's "Law & Order."
"He was a jack-of-all-trades," Charles Sherman said. "My dad did it all.
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