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Forbes Daily Briefing

Texas Hotel Billionaire Set To Foreclose On Greenbrier Owner Senator Jim Justice

Forbes Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In dueling court filings the Rowling and Justice families are at loggerheads. At stake is control of the Greenbrier Resort. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2026/04/17/texas-hotel-billionaires-set-to-foreclose-on-greenbrier-owner-senator-jim-justice/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on Forbes, Texas Hotel Billion Hotel billionaire set to foreclose on Greenbrier owner, Senator Jim

1:00.5

Justice.

1:02.6

Robert Rowling and his son Blake flew to Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in early April

1:07.7

to meet with the state's former governor, now U.S. Senator, Jim Justice,

1:12.4

at the Greenbrier Resort, which Justice has owned since 2009. Just a week earlier,

1:19.6

the Rowlings' TRT Holdings had paid Greenbrier's lender, Carter Bank, $289 million for the first

1:26.9

lien debt on the historic resort.

1:29.7

Blake says he and his dad Robert went to the resort hoping to negotiate a smooth transition.

1:35.3

But the meeting wasn't smooth. He says, quote,

1:38.4

We went there in good faith to try to work with them. The threatening nature in which they

1:43.1

handled the meeting was not in the spirit of partnership and did not encourage us to try to work with them. The threatening nature in which they handled the meeting was not

1:44.7

in the spirit of partnership and did not encourage us to try to make a deal. Naturally, they're at odds

1:51.6

over the value. Senator Justice thinks the Greenbrier is worth more than the $360 million that he and

1:58.5

his family owe on the loans TRT purchased, which according to court

2:02.6

documents all came due on April 15th. The Rowlings think it's worth less than that, but that

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