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Marla Maples
Cohutta, Georgia, USA
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…
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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
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2022
The Ivana Trump Story: The First Wife
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
The Birthday Cake
Movie Aunt Emma
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2019
The Righteous Gemstones
TV show Gay Nancy
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2017
Get Me Roger Stone
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
The Making of Trump
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Oprah: Where Are They Now?
TV show Self
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2010
A Nanny for Christmas
Movie Brandy
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2009
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
TV show
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2008
Secret Talents of the Stars
TV show
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2007
A Christmas Too Many
Movie June
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2007
Victoria Beckham: Coming to America
Movie Self
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2007
The Ex-Wives Club
TV show
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2007
Loving Annabelle
Movie Lauren
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2006
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
Movie Marla Maples
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2005
Dancing with the Stars
TV show Self - Contestant
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1999
Black and White
Movie Muffy
More credits
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1999
Two of Hearts
Movie Joan Michaelson
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1998
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
Movie Mrs. Van Dough
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1998
Happiness
Movie Ann Chambeau
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1998
Hollywood Squares
TV show Self - Panelist
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1997
For Richer or Poorer
Movie Cynthia
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1997
The Christmas List
Movie Faith
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1997
Sunset Beach
TV show
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1996
Clueless
TV show
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1996
Spin City
TV show Jennifer
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1996
The Big Easy
TV show Grace Belvedere
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1996
Executive Decision
Movie Nancy
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1993
The Nanny
TV show Marla Maples
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1991
P.S. I Luv U
TV show
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1991
WWE WrestleMania VII
Movie Guest Time Keeper
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1990
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
TV show Marla Maples Trump
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1987
Funland
Movie Mother
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1986
Designing Women
TV show
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1986
Maximum Overdrive
Movie 2nd Woman
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1981
Entertainment Tonight
TV show Self
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1963
Miss USA
TV show Self - Commentator
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1955
Miss Universe
TV show Host
