Donald Trump asked for now-wife Melania Trump's number while he was out with another date

Donald and Melania Trump
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When Donald Trump first asked for now-wife Melania Trump's number back at a Fashion Week party in 1998, she wouldn't give it to him. "He wanted my number, but he was with a date, so of course I didn't give it to him," Melania recounts to Harper's Bazaar in the magazine's February cover story.

Instead, Melania cut a deal with the real estate magnate and now-Republican presidential candidate: He could give her his number and she would call him. Donald followed through with gusto, giving Melania quite literally all of his phone numbers, including "the office, Mar-a-Lago, home in New York, everything."

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