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Birthday: Oct 27, 1963
Place of Birth: Cohutta, Georgia, USA

Marla Maples

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

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Executive Decision Nancy 1996
WWE WrestleMania VII Guest Time Keeper 1991
A Nanny for Christmas Brandy 2010
Black and White Muffy 1999
Loving Annabelle Lauren 2007
A Christmas Too Many June 2007
Two of Hearts Joan Michaelson 1999
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology Marla Maples 2006
The Ivana Trump Story: The First Wife Self (archive footage) 2022
Maximum Overdrive 2nd Woman 1986
The Christmas List Faith 1997
The Making of Trump Self (archive footage) 2015
For Richer or Poorer Cynthia 1997
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish Mrs. Van Dough 1998
Funland Mother 1987
Get Me Roger Stone Self (archive footage) 2017
The Birthday Cake Aunt Emma 2021
Happiness Ann Chambeau 1998
Series Cast Year
Sunset Beach 1997
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Marla Maples Trump 1990
Spin City Jennifer 1996
Clueless 1996
Secret Talents of the Stars 2008
The Ex-Wives Club 2007
P.S. I Luv U 1991
Joy Behar: Say Anything! 2009
The Big Easy Grace Belvedere 1996
Dancing with the Stars Self - Contestant 2005
Miss Universe Host 1955
The Nanny Marla Maples 1993
Entertainment Tonight Self 1981
Intimate Portrait Self (archive footage) 1993
The Righteous Gemstones Gay Nancy 2019
Oprah: Where Are They Now? Self 2012
Designing Women 1986
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