Marla Maples wasn’t one for hiding and didn’t work too hard to keep her affair with Donald Trump under wraps. The opposite, actually — she came right out with it! As Ivana Trump detailed in her memoir, “Raising Trump” (via E! News), the socialite recalled being on vacation with her family at a ski resort in 1989 when she was confronted by Maples. “This young blond woman came up to me out of the blue and said, ‘I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?'” Ivana wrote. Despite reacting defensively and telling Marla to “get lost,” Ivana knew this moment was the beginning of the end. “As far as I was concerned, the marriage ended that day at Bonnie’s,” she added.
But Ivana’s account might not have been an accurate representation of how things went down between the two ladies. According to OK!, eyewitnesses remember the exchange a little differently. One person claims Ivana told Marla, “You b**ch, leave my husband alone.”
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News of the affair was (apparently) a total shock to Ivana, despite the fact that Maples had been a staple in Donald’s life at the time, according to Newsweek. But Ivana turned a blind eye to her then-husband’s yacht outings and helicopter rides with Maples and maybe found comfort in the fact that Maples’ agent debunked any rumors of a romance with Donald, insisting that she “wasn’t a homewrecker.” OK, but Maples eventually got fed up with pretending.
