Marla Trump's Affair With Her Bodyguard Was Much Nastier Than You Thought

A lifeguard stand, at four in the morning. In April 1996, a police officer found Marla Maples Trump on a deserted beach about ten minutes from Mar-a-Lago, with her bodyguard. Three weeks later the National Enquirer ran it on its cover: "Shock for Trump! Marla caught with hunk." It has been told ever since as the mistress getting what she gave. The record tells a colder story. Both of them denied an affair, and nothing was ever proved. The bodyguard lost his job, and his ex-wife says the scandal crushed him. Donald Trump waited a year, then announced a separation "as friends" about nineteen months before the prenup's five-year mark, handed the news to Page Six, and met Melania at a party while the divorce was still being negotiated. Marla left with about two million dollars and a confidentiality clause, and her memoir never reached a bookstore.