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NAMES IN THE NEWS : Trumps Call Valentine’s Truce in Divorce Battle Allegations

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From Times Staff and Wire Service Reports

Donald and Ivana Trump have called a Valentine’s Day cease-fire in their divorce battle.

Neither side would comment on allegations about the 43-year-old billionaire’s reported affair with 26-year-old model Marla Maples.

Nor did they have any new vitriol for the opposing side regarding prenuptial agreements, ownership of the Plaza Hotel or the financial welfare of their three children.

“Look, it’s Valentine’s Day,” John Scanlon, 40-year-old Ivana’s publicity man, said. “Sorry I can’t give you more.”

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Trump’s people were equally calm after the storm. “This is a matter between two people, and we’re not going to get caught up in it the way the public is getting crazy about it,” said Dan Klores, a Trump spokesman.

Trump met with lawyer Stanford Lotwin this morning to map out a strategy for handling media coverage in what may become the most celebrated divorce of the decade.

Ivana, meanwhile, attended a birthday luncheon given for her by the wife of her lawyer, Michael Kennedy. Ivana turns 41 on Feb. 20.

Under the terms of the current prenuptial agreement, Ivana stands to get about $25 million. But Kennedy is arguing she should get upward of $100 million and possible ownership of the Plaza Hotel, which she has managed since Trump bought it.

In today’s New York Post, Trump was reported to have referred to reputed sweetheart Maples as “better than a 10” and secretly visited her repeatedly over several months in her lavish hotel room in New York’s St. Moritz Hotel.

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