The Most Fascinating Trump Divorce Details
Yesterday, Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump filed for divorce after 12 years of marriage. This makes the third marriage for the President and his immediate family. Here are the most scandalous details from the family's various marriages and divorces.
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump
Married: Spring of 1977 Divorced: Finalized in 1992 Number of children: 3: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump
Ivana actually lived in Atlantic City for a time while Donald remained in New York City.
She was running Trump Palace in Atlantic City at one point in their marriage, but eventually Donald reportedly demanded she come back to New York, saying "Either you act like my wife and come back to New York and take care of your children or you run the casino in Atlantic City and we get divorced." A source told Vanity Fair that it seemed like Donald wanted Ivana gone, which is why he sent her to Atlantic City. “I think it was Donald’s master plan to get rid of Ivana in Atlantic City."
In the divorce, she sued for half his assets.
They renegotiated their prenup multiple times throughout their marriage, and at one point he reportedly gave her a new revision of the contract on Christmas day. "What is this?” she asked Donald, according to Vanity Fair. “It is our new nuptial agreement. You get $10 million. Sign it!” he reportedly said. “But I can’t look at this now, it’s Christmas,” she responded. She ended up signing the document anyway.
But Ivana later sued Donald for half his assets during their divorce. The public and the tabloids seemed to side with Ivana throughout the scandal. “When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass-a good one!-there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,” he told Vanity Fair at the time. Ivana ended up with $25 million in the settlement.
He was reportedly very critical of Ivana's appearance.
Toward the end of their marriage, Donald allegedly made plenty of comments to Ivana about her appearance. A source told Vanity Fair he would say things like, "That dress is terrible,” and “You’re showing too much cleavage,” and "Who would touch those plastic breasts?” Ivana apparently told her friends at the time that Donald had stopped sleeping with her, and she blamed herself for it.
He was having a public affair with Marla Maples toward the end of his marriage to Ivana, and Ivana was very humiliated.
Donald and Marla were seen out together on numerous occasions, and at what point Donald allegedly renegotiated his prenup with Ivana because an Atlantic City photographer was threatening to blackmail him with photos of him and Marla. By the time Ivana and Donald were divorced, "Marla Maples was in a suite at the Trump Regency."
In their divorce proceedings, Ivana accused Donald of rape.
In her 1990 divorce proceedings, Ivana described a situation where Donald allegedly violently raped her in Trump Tower over a botched scalp surgery. She later walked back these claims, saying that she didn't mean Donald raped her in a “literal or criminal” sense.
Donald Trump and Marla Maples
Married: 1993 Divorced: 1999 Number of kids: 1: Tiffany Trump
Ivana once confronted Marla during an Aspen ski trip.
Donald and Marla's relationship became public during a ski trip to Aspen. Ivana wrote in her book Raising Trump, "This young blonde woman approached me out of the blue and said 'I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?'" Ivana allegedly responded by telling Marla to "get lost." But another report tells a different story of a different confrontation on this same trip in which Ivana allegedly said to Marla “You bitch, leave my husband alone." While Ivana and Donald were still married, Marla allegedly called Donald "the best sex she'd ever had." That was the headline on a New York Post cover from 1990, which blew the lid off their affair.
Their different backgrounds to marital problems.
“I’m, like, of the soil, of the country, of a solid, firm belief in God," Maples told Vanity Fair in 1990. "I would be happier living out on a farm away from everyone and not being in this concrete world, and here he is representing everything that some people think is very materialistic."
For his 50th birthday, he wanted to have a huge party for hundreds of people, but a friend of Marla's said “She’s the type to have wanted to have dinner alone with him.” Other friends of Marla's said the marriage was more about Donald than anything else. “He basically didn’t want to get married. It was lust, not really love. She loved him very much. But Donald is somebody who’s in love mostly with himself.”
Marla told the New York Post in 1999 that her marriage was "built on illusion."
"I thought that I could change him. But he won’t change... I finally found the courage to walk away and stay away … After I became a mother I was less willing to put up with his behavior," she said.
Donald Trump Jr. And Vanessa Trump
Married: 2005 Divorced: Filed March 15, 2018 Number of kids: 5: Donald Trump III, Kai Trump, Chloe Trump, Tristan Trump, Spencer Trump
They were "living separate lives" in recent months.
Rumors started circulating in early 2018 that Donald and Vanessa were having problems, and Page Six reported that even though they hadn't yet separated, they were living separate lives. One source told Page Six, “The problems have been there for a long time, the couple had hoped to stay together during the president’s time in office, but it is getting harder to resolve their issues. He’s never there.” Another source told People magazine, "even before all this Trump presidency stuff started they weren’t good and their marriage was strained.”
She was missing from the Trump Trump siblings-and-spouses picture taken before the President's first State of the Union address on February 2
They were hoping to remain married through the Trump presidency, but Donald Jr.'s tweets were a point of contention.
According to Page Six, Donald Jr. had started to act different in recent months, which was one of the reasons for their divorce. For example, he liked a tweet linking antidepressants to mass murder, and another attacking one of the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
On Halloween, he also tweeted about taking half his daughter's candy because “it’s never to [sic] early to teach her about socialism."
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