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Marla Maples

Marla Maples is an American actress and model born on October 27, 1963 in Dalton, Georgia. She is most famous for having been married to business tycoon and celebrity Donald Trump, though they divorced back in 1999. The daughter of a real estate developer and an office worker, she played for the varsity basketball team during high school, and was the first to win the Miss Resaca Beach Poster Girl contest back in 1983. Maples presently resides in Los Angeles with her and Trump’s daughter Tiffany. In May 2007, she was selected to help co-host the Bravo reality television series The Ex-Wives Club along with Shar Jackson and Angie Everhart.

However, she has also been mocked in the VH1 feature “Best Week Ever” for finding fame only through her marriage to Trump. Maples has acted in a number of television series, among them Sunset Beach, Spin City, and Something Wilder. She has also appeared in the films Maximum Overdrive, For Richer or Poorer, and A Sight for Sore Eyes. Aside from her acting career, she has worked as a co-executive producer for Whispers in the Wind, as well as an associate producer for Destiny of Peace. She is also the cousin of Heather Locklear.



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Model and actress Marla Maples was born on October 27, 1963 in Dalton, Georgia to an office worker mother and a real estate developer father.  She is a cousin of Melrose Place actress Heather Locklear.  A sports buff, Marla was part of the basketball varsity team during her high school years.

In 1983, she became a runner up at the Miss Georgia pageant and was the first person to be crowned as Miss Resaca Beach Poster Girl in the same year.

Marla Maples was seen on Sunset Beach, Spin City, Something Wilder, Dallas and Clueless.  Her other television credits include Two of Hearts, The Christmas List and P.S. I Luv You.

On the big screen, she was seen in Loving Annabelle, Black and White, Richie Rich: A Christmas Story, For Richer or Poorer and in Happiness among many others.

She also produced short documentaries entitled Whispers in the Wind and Destiny of Peace.

In 2007, she hosted ABC's reality TV program The Ex-Wives Club , alongside Shar Jackson and Angie Everhart .  The show documented the hosts as they reached out to normal people to help them move on from their failed marriages.  She also hosted a segment of Victoria: Beckham, a one-hour NBC special featuring the Spice Girls member.

Marla Maples was featured four times in Celebrity Sleuth and three times in Playboy.

She was married to business tycoon Donald J. Trump in December 1993, but they divorced six years later.  Her daughter Tiffany Ariana Trump was born on October 13, 1993.

Marla Maples is a contestant on CBS' reality TV series Secret Talents of the Stars , a show that pits celebrities against each other as they showcase their hidden abilities.  Her hidden talent is performing an original song on bass guitar as part of a Hip Hop Orchestra.



(Photo courtesy of ABC)

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Marla Maples

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