How did Marla Maples end up with only 2 million dollars after 6 years of marriage.

[madaboutharry]

Reports that Marla Maples, who was married to Trump for 6 years and had a child with him, had only received a 2 million dollar divorce settlement always sounded strange to me.

Maples and Trump divorced in 1999. This was the decade that over 400 million dollars was transferred to Trump in nefarious tax schemes. Maples ended up with an insignificant fraction of his wealth.

It seems to me that a judge in family court in New York was another victim of this con artist.

[JI7]

1. wasn't he broke by then and being propped up by russians ?

[democratisphere]

2. Marla Maples greatest reward was getting rid of drumpf. Priceless.

Most people could live very well on $2,000,000.00.

[edbermac]

3. Prenup I'm guessing.

Probably as big as a phone book.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Here's how it went down.

Ivana divorced Trump b/c of Marla.

Post-divorce, Trump squired Marla around his casinos and got her a starring role on Broadway (Tommy Tune's "Will Rogers' Follies).

Marla didn't enjoy being seen as "the other woman" and pressed him to marry her. Trump wasn't in a hurry.

Marla did the classic ploy to force the issue: She got pregnant and even gave birth to Trump's love child. No wedding for more than a year thereafter.

It was close to their wedding day and Trump played Hardball with Marla: I won't marry you without a prenuptial agreement. Marla balked, saying it wasn't necessary as they would be married forever. Trump wouldn't budge. He even told her that he would NEVER marry her without her signature. Capitulating, Marla signed. And they were married.

But in the pre-nup, there was a graduated schedule of settlement. If they were married for five years or less, Marla would only get $2 million. So Trump got out his calendar and waited for nearly five years. And then filed for divorce and let Marla know about it by having her read about it in The New York Daily News. Legally, her hands were tied and she allowed the divorce to go through.

[PCIntern]

5. what a Prince...

but she was SMART and kept Tiffany away from him as much as she could...think John Huston in the film 'Chinatown'.

[PJMcK]

6. I remember it well

Trump's so-called "love life" has been in the New York tabloids since the late 1970s. He's such a scumbag, I don't know how anyone can admire him.

ETA: I saw Marla in "The Will Rogers Follies." The show sucked and so did she.

[PCIntern]

11. Sucked mushrooms I heard. nt

[Hekate]

12. Yuck. All I knew at the time was what I read in Doonesbury out here in California.

As for Tiffany, I really hope she was kept far away on purpose -- that family is a nest of snakes and wanna-be Borgias.

[JenniferJuniper]

7. Yesterday, I was randomly wondering how much

Trump's daughter Tiffany was paid to attend various festivities like the convention, inauguration, etc . Because we know she was paid.

[bluedigger]

8. Her grifting genetics weren't up to Trump standards.

She was weakening the line and had to go.

[fescuerescue]

9. Only $2m!

Wow.

But it was probably a prenup

[HipChick]

10. Makes you wonder what Nelly's pre yup looks like

[phylny]

13. I recall hearing, and I could be wrong,

that she cheated on him and that there was a clause in their prenup that should she cheat, she'd forfeit a larger alimony.

I think Donald has the same clause on HIS side with Melania. Hence the panic with Stormy, and others, coming forward.

[madaboutharry]

14. I heard that he was cheating on her.

And that it was reporters who told her.