In the wake of his contentious divorce from first wife Ivana Trump, President Trump was feeling less than generous when it came time to negotiate a prenuptial agreement with his second wife, Marla Maples, Vanity Fair reports.
A person with access to the 1993 document — which included confidential financial statements — slipped a copy to Gabriel Sherman, who writes that it "is a sketch of Trump's immense privilege and the wealth he squandered, telling in both what it illuminates and what it obfuscates." At the time, Trump was dealing with three of his Atlantic City casinos going bust and being forced to sell the Trump Shuttle airline, his stake in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, and his yacht, the Trump Princess.
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