![]() ![]() Yes, said Miller, it was over with Marla. Five minutes later, a man identifying himself as John Miller called back, said he was handling publicity for Trump and confirmed everything, in detail. A curious PEOPLE reporter called Trump's office to ask if the story were true. "On June 26, the tabloid New York Post ran a front-page headline announcing that Trump, 45, had dumped his longtime sweetheart, Marla Maples, 27, and taken up with an Italian model named Carla. ![]() 'It's not true!'" Hurt writes.Įvidence of Trump's direct involvement emerged in People, which ran an article suggesting Trump posed as his own PR man in a phone interview with the magazine. "'How dare you do this!' she screams at him. Hurt writes that, after confirming that Bruni was not dating anybody else, he began a rumor that he and Bruni were in a relationship, leading her to confront Trump directly for spreading the rumors. ![]() Carla and her friends spent the next few days ordering room service and gloating over the way they fooled the 'King of Tacky.'" The visitor was actually one of Carla's longtime female friends, who showed up at the Plaza with a boyfriend in tow. He immediately offered to provide a room at the Plaza Hotel. Carla mischievously informed Donald that her 'sister' was coming to town. "After her arrival in New York he tracked her down at the Mayfair Regent hotel and tried to ingratiate himself. Trump one of the world's 'great men,'" writes Hurt. "Carla does not, however, consider Donald J. However, Bruni, according to Harry Hurt III's Trump biography Lost Tycoon, was no friend to Trump. "These stories are sheer nonsense," he said, but added: "She is a friend." "Just because I'm well known they may have jumped to conclusions and put the wrong face to the name."Įven Trump agreed when caught by the Mail, saying there was no romance. "No doubt there are hundreds of models called Carla," she told the Mail. "It's all nonsense," she said of any linking to Trump, saying perhaps it was mistaken identity. And I haven't seen him since, of that I'm sure." I've only ever met him once, about a year ago, at a big charity party in New York. "It's so untrue and I'm deeply embarrassed by it all. "Trump is obviously a lunatic," Bruni said of the story in an interview with the Daily Mail later that year. The episode illustrates just how personally involved Trump is in managing his own image through the press, a tactic he used to great effect as he rose to prominence in New York and one he continues to use as he runs for president. Bruni, however, vehemently denied she was dating Trump, and according to one biography, Trump himself planted the story for publicity. Trump confirmed to the Post the next day that Bruni was the "new one" in his life. "The New York Post is reporting that she's been ordered out of Trump's luxury high-rise apartment, and that Trump has begun dating an Italian model named Carla Bruni." "And Donald Trump is reportedly breaking up with Marla Maples, the woman said to have come between him and his wife Ivana," anchor Doreen Gentzler announced. That morning, NBC's Today ran with the report. Trump, according to the Post, was leaving Maples for Italian model (and future first lady of France) Carla Bruni. Next to the photo, which featured his then-girlfriend Marla Maples, was the headline "IT'S OVER." On the morning of June 26, 1991, Donald Trump's picture was splashed across the front page of the New York Post. ![]()
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