Anyway, modest was not exactly the Trump style. At least that’s what Marla said she wanted, though Trump couldn’t help but wonder if her aspirations for her big day were really as modest as that. Arthur Caliandro, their minister from Manhattan’s Marble Collegiate Church, officiating and a few close friends getting sand in their shoes. If he left it up to Marla, they would probably have one of those New Age wedding ceremonies on the beach, with Dr. Until the time of the stock offering, every decision about his personal life had to enhance his next big project: The Comeback. Trump had ambitious plans to offer stock in his gambling casinos to the public early in 1994, and it was essential to the success of this high-stakes venture that he remove the moral stigma of being viewed as an unfaithful husband and the father of an illegitimate child. It was hard for Trump to explain to his parents that, as much as he wanted to reward Marla for her loyalty by making her an honest woman, it wasn’t his sole motive for marriage. I will not have my child living here without a father at Christmas.’ ” “I heard that she told Blaine, ‘This is it! Either Donald marries me or I take my child.

“I don’t know Marla well,” Mary Trump said in her soft brogue.

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