What is Marla Maples’ Net Worth?
Marla Maples, an American actress and socialite, has a net worth of $6 million. She is best known for her association with Donald Trump, with whom she shares a daughter named Tiffany Trump.
Early Life and Pageant Success
Marla Ann Maples was born on October 27, 1963, in Cohutta, Georgia to Ann Locklear Maples and Stanley Edward Maples. She attended Northwest Whitfield High School where she was a basketball star and class secretary. In her senior year, she was crowned homecoming queen. Maples attended the University of Georgia but left before graduating.
After leaving college, Maples competed in various beauty contests and pageants. In 1983, she won the Miss Resaca Beach Poster Girl Contest and was the runner-up in the Miss Georgia contest the following year. Maples won the Miss Hawaiian Tropic contest in 1985.
Marla Maples’ Career Highlights
Maples began her career in 1986 with her first film “Maximum Overdrive.” She gained fame in the WWF world, appearing as a celebrity guest at 1991 WWF WrestleMania VII and as a guest timekeeper in the match between Sergeant Slaughter and Hulk Hogan. Maples appeared as herself in “Designing Women” in the same year. She joined the cast of the Broadway musical “The Will Rogers Follies” in 1992 and made cameo appearances in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “Something Wilder” alongside her then-husband Donald Trump in 1994.
Maples’ other TV and movie credits include “Happiness,” “Black and White,” “The Nanny,” “Spin City,” “Switching Lanes,” “Where Are They Now?,” “Executive Decision,” “For Richer or Poorer,” “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish,” “Two of Hearts,” “Loving Annabelle,” “A Christmas Too Many,” and “A Nanny for Christmas.” She has also worked in an off-Broadway production of “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” hosted Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, and won a Hollywood Music in Media Award for her album “House of Love.”
In 2016, Maples competed on season 22 of “Dancing with the Stars” with professional dancer Tony Dovolani and joined the women of ABC’s morning talk show “The View” as a guest co-host on March 11, 2016.
Charitable Work
Marla Maples has shown a long-standing commitment to supporting charities and non-profits. She is a vocal advocate of Kids Creating Peace, an organization that brings Israeli and Palestinian children together. Maples is also an advisory board member of AWARENYC.org, a grassroots organization that supports women and girls in New York City and around the world. Additionally, she supports the Louis Armstrong Center of Music and Medicine.
Maples is a keynote speaker with the London Speakers Bureau, where she focuses on inspiring women, wellness, spirituality, and motivation. She has spoken at the Summer of Peace Summit and the Global Summit on Science, Spirituality, and Environment in India. In 2018, she was a guest speaker on the Journeys of Faith podcast with Paula Faris.
Marla Maples’ Career Highlights
In 1990, Maples starred in a No Excuses jeans ad campaign. She also designed a line of maternity clothes in 1993, which sold in major department stores. Maples had plans to release a memoir titled “All That Glitters Is Not Gold” in January 2000, but it was never published after a mutual decision was made between the author and publisher in February 2002. Additionally, Maples offers personalized videos through the website Cameo.
Marla Maples’ Relationship with Donald Trump
Marla Maples gained notoriety as the “other woman” during Donald Trump’s marriage to Ivana Trump. Ivana discovered the affair in 1991 and filed for divorce. Maples and Trump married in 1993 in a lavish ceremony attended by numerous celebrities. They had a highly publicized relationship with at least one breakup and one child, Tiffany Ariana Trump. The couple split for good in 1999, and Maples is bound by a confidentiality agreement regarding their marriage.
Donald Trump’s Inflated Net Worth and Marla Maples’ Divorce Settlement
In 1997, Donald Trump and Marla Maples announced their plans to divorce after just four years of marriage. As part of their divorce settlement, Trump claimed his net worth was $1.17 billion, while Maples estimated her net worth at $100,000. However, it later emerged that Trump had inflated his net worth to avoid breaking their prenuptial agreement.
Trump had an air-tight prenup that could only be broken if it was ever proven that he hid money or underestimated his fortune. To avoid breaking the prenup, he had an incentive to downplay his wealth and every incentive to overestimate it. To calculate his $1.17 billion net worth, Trump used highly-inflated values for several assets, including his Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, which was reportedly losing money and buried under a mountain of debt.
Marla Maples reportedly demanded $25 million to make a clean break from Trump. However, the prenup called for her to receive just $1 million if they separated after fewer than five years, which they did. Under this plan, Maples was entitled to an additional $1 million to buy a home and $100,000 per year in child support payments for their daughter Tiffany until she turned 21. Maples also got to keep her $250,000 engagement ring.
Marla Maples’ Real Estate Transactions
In November 1999, Marla Maples purchased a home in Calabasas, California for $1.349 million. She later sold the property in July 2013 for $2.2 million, making a significant profit.
Following the sale of her LA home, Maples purchased a condo in New York City, located near Central Park.
