Following his triumph successful the US election, Donald Trump is moving backmost into the White House with his wife, Melania Trump - but their matrimony and his precise nationalist emotion beingness has been acold from uncomplicated.
Throughout his vocation arsenic a world TV prima and concern mogul, Trump has consistently cultivated a estimation arsenic a ladies' man. With his infamous boasts of grabbing women "by the p**sy" and a wide docket to curtail termination rights, the results of his presidency were undoubtedly a devastating setback for feminism.
The 47th President of the United States has been joined 3 times and has adjacent owned the prestigious quality pageant Miss Universe from 1996 to 2016. According to his biographer, Wayne Barrett, Trump went truthful acold arsenic to effort and transportation Playboy to diagnostic a dispersed called The Girls of Trump, which would showcase his pistillate employees successful provocative poses.
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AFP via Getty Images)However, his relationships with women are not without controversy, with astatine slightest 26 women accusing him of intersexual misconduct since 1970. In this in-depth exploration, we volition delve into the details of Trump's interactions with women, including his marriages, the allegations against him, and the galore rumours surrounding his affairs.
Ivana Trump
Trump's archetypal woman was Ivana Trump, who played a important relation successful his aboriginal empire. The Czech-American exemplary and socialite relocated to the US successful the 1970s and met Trump successful 1976 during a nighttime retired with friends. In her memoir Raising Trump, she reminisced astir their archetypal meeting, highlighting however helium kept it casual with "no comic stuff," knowing that flirting wouldn't impressment her.
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Getty Images)They tied the knot successful 1977 and rapidly roseate to prominence arsenic 1 of New York's influential couples, regularly making headlines passim the eighties arsenic glamorous stalwarts of precocious society. Ivana was much than conscionable a trophy wife; she was a cardinal subordinate astatine The Trump Organization, overseeing properties similar the Plaza Hotel and cementing her presumption successful Donald's concern realm.
Together, they had 3 children - Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric - earlier ungraded shook their marriage. Their highly publicised divorcement successful 1990 came aft Ivana discovered Trump's matter with exemplary Marla Maples. Post-divorce, Ivana embraced her newfound freedom, launching manner and quality lines and penning self-help books and columns. She remained a nationalist fig until her decease successful 2022 astatine the property of 73.
Marla Maples
Trump's steamy matter with exemplary Marla Maples dominated the ungraded sheets successful the aboriginal '90s, culminating successful a high-drama showdown with then-wife Ivana connected the snowy slopes of Aspen. It was during this infamous confrontation that Maples allegedly uttered what would go a notorious line, "the champion enactment I've ever had," sending shockwaves done the media.
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Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)The fallout devastated Ivana, who confided to Vanity Fair, "The children are each wrecks. Ivanka present comes location from schoolhouse crying, 'Mommy, does it mean I'm not going to beryllium Ivanka Trump anymore?' Little Eric asks me, 'Is it existent you are going distant and not coming back?'".
Following Trump's 1992 divorcement from Ivana, helium wasted nary clip successful going nationalist with Marla, tying the knot successful 1993 and welcoming their child, Tiffany. However, their romance dwindled swiftly, starring to their separation by 1997, with Marla emerging arsenic yet different exclamation constituent successful Trump's headline-riddled romanticist saga.
Melania Knauss
The ever-indomitable Trump didn't enactment unattached for long. Before his divorcement from Marla was adjacent finalized successful 1999, helium crossed paths with Melania Knauss, his aboriginal First Lady, astatine a swanky New York Fashion Week party. Curiously, Trump wasn't unsocial that evening; he'd arrived with Norwegian heiress Celina Midelfart, yet destiny had different plans.
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Getty Images)While she was successful the bathroom, Trump made his determination connected Melania, asking her for her number. In a 2016 Harper's Bazaar interview, the erstwhile supermodel recounted the episode, "He wanted my number, but helium was with a date, truthful of people I didn't springiness it to him. I said, 'I americium not giving you my number; you springiness maine yours, and I volition telephone you.' I wanted to spot what benignant of fig helium would springiness maine - if it was a concern number, what is this? I'm not doing concern with you."
As it turned out, Trump presented her with a myriad of his contacts, furnishing adjacent his bureau digits astatine the swank Mar-a-Lago Club successful Palm Beach, alongside his New York location fig and more. The mates struck an on-again, off-again relationship, yet tying the knot successful January 2005. The adjacent year, Melania gave commencement to their sole offspring, Barron Trump.
Stormy Daniels
Amidst each this, big movie prima Stormy Daniels came guardant alleging she had a fling with Trump not agelong aft his nuptials with Melania. Later, arsenic Trump revved up his 2016 statesmanlike bid, Stormy claimed to person been hushed via a $130,000 outgo from Trump's then-legal eagle, Michael Cohen, to zip it astir the escapade.
The hush wealth arrangement, uncovered successful 2018, sparked a large scandal. Trump's squad claimed it was to debar "campaign distractions." However, Cohen aboriginal testified that it was an effort to power the election.
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James Breeden for The Mirror)This led to important ineligible scrutiny of the outgo and Trump's consequent concern grounds entries, which allegedly concealed the payout. On May 30, Trump was recovered blameworthy connected each 34 felony counts of falsifying concern records implicit the outgo – making him the archetypal erstwhile president successful past convicted of a crime.
Stormy expressed her dismay astir Trump's instrumentality to bureau portion appearing connected Good Morning Britain astatine the extremity of past year. She said, "How is idiosyncratic who's recovered blameworthy oregon adjacent charged with truthful galore crimes adjacent allowed to tally for a governmental office?"
Karen McDougal
Playboy exemplary Karen McDougal besides alleged an matter with Trump, starting successful June 2006, conscionable 3 months aft Barron was born. The Wall Street Journal reported that American Media, Inc. (AMI), proprietor of the National Enquirer, paid Karen $150,000 for exclusive rights to her communicative but ne'er published it.
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Instagram)Many speculated this was to suppress the story, but AMI claimed it paid Karen not "to termination damaging stories about" Trump, but for "exclusive beingness rights to immoderate narration she has had with a then-married man" and "two years' worthy of her fittingness columns and mag covers".
Although Karen has ne'er confirmed the alleged matter with Donald Trump - who staunchly denies immoderate specified brushwood - she has discussed her regret implicit signing a restrictive agreement. "It took my rights away," she divulged to writer Ronan Farrow. "I don't cognize what I'm allowed to speech about. I'm acrophobic to adjacent notation his name."
Sexual misconduct allegations
Several women successful caller years person travel guardant accusing Trump of varying degrees of intersexual battle oregon impropriety. In 2016, during Trump's statesmanlike campaign, Jessica Leeds recounted to the New York Times an incidental erstwhile seated adjacent to Trump connected a formation successful the aboriginal 1980s.
She said helium "grabbed her breasts and tried to enactment his manus up her skirt" and described him arsenic being "like an octopus", stating that "his hands were everywhere." Trump has denied each specified claims.
In 2019, columnist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her successful a Bergdorf Goodman dressing country successful the mid-1990s. Trump has ever vehemently denied this claim.
However, successful May 2023, a assemblage ruled that Trump was liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll successful 1996, awarding her $5 cardinal (£3.92m) successful damages. He was besides recovered blameworthy of defamation, and successful 2023, a assemblage ordered him to wage $83.3 cardinal (£65.4m) successful damages.
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AFP via Getty Images)In 2016, People magazine's Natasha Stoynoff alleged that Trump "shoved" his lingua "down her throat" aft pushing her against a partition astatine Mar-a-Lago successful 2005. Natasha had been determination to interrogation him and his heavy large wife, Melania. Trump insisted helium had ne'er met her and labelled the communicative arsenic "FAKE NEWS", contempt a photograph of the writer with him and Melania being made public.
Summer Zervos, a erstwhile contestant connected The Apprentice, a amusement which Trump was the prima of, accused him of kissing and groping her "very aggressively" and "thrusting" his genitals astatine her successful 2007 astatine The Beverly Hills Hotel. She pursued a suit against Trump, who has ever denied the allegations but dropped it successful 2021.
Additionally, contestants from the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants alleged that successful 2006, Trump harassed and grabbed them without their consent – claims Trump besides denied. Despite these controversies, Melania Trump has consistently shown enactment for her husband.
Rumours suggest they pb mostly abstracted lives; however, she was contiguous during the US predetermination result-tallying. In a tender moment, the President halted his triumph code successful Florida to works a buss connected his wife's cheek, expressing to his supporters, "I conscionable wanted to convey her."