The life of Marla Maples without Donald Trump
The master of the White House makes marriage contracts. In order to ensure that a failure course by his side does not end in a capilotade. A look back at the president's lesser-known wife, the one between Ivana and Melania
In December 2019, we learned, completely dumbfounded - it must be said - that Melania Trump expressed her opinions through her wardrobe, that she did not carry her stepdaughter Ivanka in her heart and that she was sleeping in leaves for the White House, according to the unauthorized biography Free, Melania, of Kate Bennett, which made talk the All-Washington and other pipelettes of our kind.
And here it is, in turn, tells us among others The Illustrated of the day, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, from the keyboard of "the veteran political journalist" of the Washington Post, Mary Jordan. With a smile a bit tight on the cover for "a corner of the veil raised" ... If "the White House has already denounced a bunch of inventions", it is the famous deal that is interesting. Either the marriage contract. And there, neither one nor two, we remember a previous wife, born barely a month before the assassination of John Kennedy.
She is a somewhat forgotten American actress and television host who, through social events, meets him in 1989 and maintains a particularly high profile relationship with him. From this daring spawning was born a daughter, Tiffany, four years later, who today reveled in her prestigious ancestry on her Instagram account. Immediately follows an almost forced marriage to save appearances, at the Plaza in New York.
A thousand guests, including O. J. Simpson, then American football star and follower of the slogan "love, glory and beauty", just before he fell heavily on the cursed lawns of the news. The glitter, too, has disappeared: the divorce is pronounced in 1999. But which golden girl are we talking about? From Marla Ann Maples, spell name! A name that slams like in Agatha Christie's novels. The one whose Le Nouveau Quotidien already announced on October 16, 1992 that a certain American billionaire had separated from her ...
"... At the end of a relationship that the popular press [had] made a big splash."
I love you neither, I leave you, I love you, I ask you. "It's beautiful, New York, New York USA": Gainsbourg knew it since the dawn of the Sixties. And it was also for his "beautiful eyes" that the king of New York real estate had already divorced d 'Ivana Zelnickova, then a model of Czechoslovakian origin, again "practically through the press". The NQ's “What will we say” section on the other hand does not say anything about the cooing gaze of the man who has been talked about so much these days and for a long time, nor about his Pepso smile - tense, tense, it's a mania! - on the collar of his striped shirt.
But did Marla suspect then that she could have become first lady alongside a man Cupid never really knew what to do with? No, she preferred to believe Donald Trump, who would have told her that "a marriage was out of the question and that she had better consider her life" without him. Oh, the ugly big lie ... Well, halfway ... Hence the title of the newspaper of the time, which we would not dare to do in the post- # MeToo era: "On your marks: Donald Trump is free. " Definitely, "there are days when Cupid doesn't give a damn":
"To change our love affair into love / It wouldn't have taken much / But, that day, Venus was distracted" ... "Before Melania", therefore "but after Ivana": Donald Trump was married to Marla Maples in the 1990s. "We stripped the daisy twenty times / She fell twenty times on" not at all "/ And our poor romance went bankrupt / There are days when Cupid does not care." And on days like a little over a year ago, "details of the terms of their marriage contract" were leaked by the US edition of Vanity Fair, picked up by Madame Figaro.
A "horrible document"
In addition to recalling that the daisy stripper had been "left by post", the magazine reported "certain information" on the "clauses of her marriage contract". A "horrible document", confesses Donald. Where we learn that "in the event of divorce, he agreed to pay their daughter $ 100,000 in annual pension until she was 21. Aid which would be immediately stopped if it were to enlist in the army or the Peace Corps "... This" independent American agency whose mission is to promote peace and friendship in the world ": the political program was already there, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue further, in the background.
As there was indeed a divorce, the document was useful. "In 1997, Donald Trump fired his wife by sending her [a] simple letter". By FedEx: in the top of the goujaterie genre, we have rarely done better. But you should also know that when this contract was signed, Donald Trump had just suffered "the full force of the real estate crisis of the 1990s", he was on the verge of bankruptcy, even forced to sell "his 85-meter yacht for replenish its coffers ”.
Then, Marla made the headlines again by testifying about her intimate complicity with Donald Trump - "Best sex I've ever had", she declared in the New York Post at the time, next to the " bon coup »full of satisfaction but rather badly cut out. Since then, some waters have obviously flowed under the bridges in America that the tenant at the end of the (first?) Lease at the White House still wants “great again”. And Marla even participated in Dancing with the Stars in 2016, failing to dance in the big leagues the same year.
