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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarla, Tiffany bid to stiff hairstylist for inaugural styling
You can't make this shit up. What a bunch of grifters!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/17/hair-stylists-snub-to-marla-maples-no-free-services-in-exchange-for-inauguration-day-exposure/?postshare=4001484659253112&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4d966a78cfe5
"Though Donald Trump and his family project an image of boundless wealth, a Washington-based hairstylist says the president-elects second wife tried to get out of paying her to style her tresses and those of her 23-year-old daughter, Tiffany Trump, for Inauguration Day.
Freelance stylist Tricia Kelly says she was contacted by a longtime client with ties to the Trumps about a job coifing Marla Maples and the younger Trump daughter for the big event. Kelly expressed her interest and she explained her rates a $150 fee to travel in addition to the cost of her services but Maples, through her assistant, balked. I was told they had a $300 budget for both of them for hair and makeup, Kelly says.
After some back and forth, Kelly agreed to be paid $200 total and a makeup artist $150 to get the women camera-ready. Thats when Mapless assistant came up with another proposal: Would Kelly and the makeup artist be willing to provide their services for free? In exchange, they would get exposure, and Maples would mention them on her social-media feeds, the assistant told her.
Kelly declined. I was stunned, she said. I told them . . . I work for a fee, not for free.
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There are people who make far less than they do who pay full price, she said. People on staff the incoming White House and the outgoing one pay full price. It seemed like they were trying to see how much they could get for free based on their names."
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But after The Washington Post contacted the PR representative, Kelly received ominous messages from her client, who had first put her in touch with Mapless camp. You are messing with the president of the United States, the Maples contact wrote her, adding that Maples was worried about her financial situation with Tiffany out of college, ending child-support payments from the president-elect. She is used to a certain lifestyle and you dont understand that.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Generator
(7,770 posts)some don't like this term-but every time I mention Trump to my husband -I just say scumbag. I'm going to keep that. They are scum.
"She is used to a certain lifestyle. " YEAH Beeotch-some people are used to having health care! God I hate humanity-wait they aren't actually human are they? They get a lizard pass.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Deplorable.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)These people give cheapeosity a bad name....
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Ask not what you can do for your country.
Ask what your country can do for you.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)For one person if you go to a salon, forget about 2 people and travel, forget about makeup.
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)That seems strange to me.
Me.
(35,454 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)about not wanting to pay. trump waits until after the job is completed the bilks people.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)What a disgusting sentiment. Apparently, the stylists's lifestyle (working for a living) is not as impotant as theirs ...? Complete ass-holes
Freddie
(9,265 posts)She got their daughter away from him during her formative years and she seems like a level-headed kid. So they're grifters like the rest of the family.
Is there going to be a special ex-wives section at the inauguration?