Donald Trump marries former model Marla Maples at the Trump Plaza Hotel in 1993.
According to Maples, the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting on December 7, 1993, prompted Trump to rethink his life and propose to her. On December 20, 1993, the pair married at New York City's Plaza Hotel in a ceremony attended by 1,000 people, including Rosie O'Donnell and O. J. Simpson. There was a lot of champagne and caviar at the reception. Maples wore a Carolina Herrera white satin gown and a borrowed $2 million Harry Winston tiara, but the ceremony was brief and transactional.
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