Throwback Thursday: Marla Maples & the New York Tabloids
In fact, Deborah Norville showed it could be done a few years before.
But Marla’s big move to the Big Apple in 1988 launched a modeling, TV and film career that continues today.
Her resume includes guest spots on TV shows like Dallas, Clueless and Spin City.
And, of course, a starring role with Harrison Ford in the movie Executive Decision.
But critics say none of that would have happened if not for Donald Trump and her tumultuous year of 1990.
In fact, she already had landed a soap and some modeling gigs before that.
But suddenly in early 1990, the southern belle began popping up in all the national tabloids as the other woman in the very public divorce of Donald and Ivanna Trump.
So our own Dalton belle, Linda Edwards headed to New York to catch up on the unexpected twist in her career.
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Our second story (to the left) is a humorous take on all the tabloid fodder about the Trump divorce.
A Tunnel Hill barber shop got some national coverage for their stunt of taking up money for The Donald, in case he got cleaned out in the divorce.
It turns out that he didn’t need it.
But he remained bitter about the whole tabloid experience, as you can see from this Larry King interview in 1990.
A year later, the newly single Trump visited Marla’s hometown, creating quite a sensation here.
The couple would eventually marry, but it didn’t last.
They had a daughter together, who Marla raised by herself.
And she says she still enjoys watching The Apprentice.
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