Marla Maples (created October 27, 1963) is an American actress, television personality, and socialite, famous for her marriage to businessman star Donald Trump. She’s a distant cousin of actress Heather Locklear. Maples in secret dated Donald Trump for almost two years beginning 1986 while Trump was still married to Ivana Trump. The matter was found by Ivana in 1991, when she encountered Maples on a ski slope in Aspen, Colorado. The spat was nicely chronicled by the media and led to Ivana filing for divorce from Donald Trump. Maples went to star in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies, where she played “Ziegfield’s favorite,” the girlfriend of showman, Florenz Ziegfeld. In 1993, Donald Trump married Marla Maples and together they had one kid, Tiffany Trump (born October 13, 1993). In 1996 and 1997 Maples hosted both the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Universe pageants for two straight years. Maples has made many appearances in TV shows along with a few movie cameos. Two of her cameos contain Executive Decision and Maximum Overdrive. She also appeared as an actress in the award winning 1998 Todd Solondz film Happiness as well as in the 1999 film Black and White. Marla Maples appeared as a star guest at WWF Wrestle Mania VII in 1991, as well as served as special guest timekeeper in the primary event match between Hulk Hogan and protecting WWF Champ Sgt. Slaughter. She guest starred in “Spin City” in 1997, as well as on The Nanny in 1999. She returned to The Big Apple in 2011 for “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” an off Broadway production. Lately Maples was featured on Oprah’s hit show “Where Are They Now?” She’s also in a brand new film coming out from Tyscot Films called “Switching Lanes” that’s set to be released mid June in 2013.
“Spin City”, “The Nanny”,“Happiness”,“Maximum Overdrive", “Black and White”, “Executive Decision”
TV Shows
“The Will Rogers Follies”, “Love, Loss and What I Wore”, “WrestleMania VII”, “Contact Talk Radio”
Star Sign
Scorpio
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If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
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When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
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When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.
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I'm happy to have had everything healed. We're fine.
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Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.
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Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.
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He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.
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I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.
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I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
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I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
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I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
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I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
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When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.
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This relationship is going to be built on trust.
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What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.
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I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
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I've always modeled myself after Ginger.
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I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
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I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
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My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.
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Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
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The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
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I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.
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I finally said, I can't live being carried by this wake.
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He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.
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I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.
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I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
$20 Million
