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Marla Maples

ActorBorn October 27, 1963 (61 years)
Marla Maples (born October 27, 1963) is an American actress, television personality, and socialite, best known for her marriage to businessman celebrity Donald Trump.

Maples was born in Dalton, Georgia, the daughter of Ann, a former office worker, and Stan Maples, a real estate developer who later divorced Ann to marry a high school classmate of Maples.

She is a distant cousin of actress Heather Locklear.

She attended Northwest Whitfield High School in Tunnel Hill, Georgia, where she was a star on the varsity basketball teams.

Maples began secretly dating Donald Trump in 1986 for nearly two years while Trump was still married to Ivana Trump. The affair was later discovered by Ivana in 1991, when Ivana confronted Maples on a ski slope in Aspen, Colorado. The public spat was well chronicled by the media and led to Ivana filing for divorce.

She has one child with Donald Trump, Tiffany Ariana Trump, born on October 13, 1993. Tiffany was named after the Tiffany Company Building.

Donald Trump later divorced Maples, after a National Enquirer story surfaced reporting that a Florida police officer caught Maples and Trump bodyguard Spenser Wagner under a lifeguard station on Boyton Beach. After the divorce, Maples signed a deal with HarperCollins to write a book about Trump entitled "All that Glitters is not Gold," which was abandoned when Trump threatened litigation on grounds the book violated the divorce agreement.

She later became engaged to producer Michael Mailer, son of writer Norman Mailer, but Mailer later called off the engagement for unexplained reasons to marry someone else. Maples is now a confirmed spiritualist and single mom. Marla is currently host of her own radio show on Contact Talk Radio http://www.contacttalkradio.com the first Friday of every month
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Maximum Overdrive
  • Funland
Known For
  • Loving Annabelle
  • Black & White
  • Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
  • The Christmas List
  • A Christmas Too Many
  • Two of Hearts
  • Switching Lanes

Filmography

2021
The Birthday Cake · as Aunt Emma
2019
The Righteous Gemstones (TV Series) · as Gay Nancy
2015
Switching Lanes · as Stacey Jefferson
2013
Liv and Maddie (TV Series) · as Amy Becker
2010
2009
2006
2006
Loving Annabelle · as Lauren
2005
The Ex-Wives Club (TV Series)
2004
A Sight for Sore Eyes · as Samantha Blake
1999
Black & White · as Muffy
1999
Two of Hearts · as Joan Michaelson
1998
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish · as Mrs. Van Dough
1998
Happiness · as Ann Chambeau
1997
For Richer or Poorer · as Cynthia
1997
The Christmas List · as Faith
1997
Sunset Beach (TV Series)
1996
Clueless (TV Series) · as Buyer #2
1996
Spin City (TV Series) · as Jennifer
1996
The Big Easy (TV Series) · as Grace Belvedere
1996
Executive Decision · as Nancy
1994
Something Wilder (TV Series) · as Donna
1991
P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series)
1991
WrestleMania VII · as Guest Time Keeper
1990
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series) · as Marla Maples Trump
1987
Funland · as Mother
1986
Designing Women (TV Series)
1986
1978
Dallas (TV Series) · as Maggie
1964
Another World (TV Series) · as Margie
1955
Miss Universe (TV Series) · as Host

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