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DATE: SATURDAY, April 21, 1990                   TAG: 9004210434
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PEOPLE

Maples, said to be the "other woman" in the much- Marla Maples discussed divorce case of Donald and Ivana Trump, was interviewed on a segment of ABC's "PrimeTime Live" Thursday.

Maples spoke demurely, haltingly at times. But she never appeared flustered by the questions, even the meaty ones, which she politely declined to answer.

Was she the reason for the Trump split?

"Only the two of them know what really went wrong with their marriage. But I'm not the reason for that marriage having problems," she said, adding: "As Donald has said himself, `People just grow apart.' "

Asked about a story in which an unnamed friend of Maples quoted her as saying "the best sex I ever had" was with Trump, Maples responded: "It's just an absolute, total lie that I said it."

When interviewer Diane Sawyer asked her straight out if it was the best sex she ever had, Maples said: "Diane, that has nothing to do with why I'm here."

Settlement of the divorce suit, in which Ivana Trump is challenging the legitimacy of a marital contract that limited her alimony to a mere $25 million, might depend in part on questions of fidelity.

"Do you love him?" Sawyer asked Maples.

"I do love him," answered Maples.

"Do you want to marry him?" Sawyer asked.

"I'm taking my life day by day. I am just hoping to go on," Maples said.

John Kluge, America's richest man, and Patricia Kluge, his wife of nine years, are getting a divorce, The Charlottesville Daily Progress reported.

The Kluges will divide their 10,000-acre Albemarle Farms estate and live in separate parts of the sprawling property southeast of Charlottesville.

Patricia Kluge, 41, will live with the couple's adopted 6-year-old son, John W. Kluge II, in the 45-room Albemarle House mansion, Blair said.

John Kluge, 76, will reside at the adjoining 3,000-acre Morven estate that he bought for $8.5 million two years ago.

"They are resolving all matters amicably and wish each other well," Robert A. Blair, one of Patricia Kluge's attorneys, said.

Asked if he would divulge the amount of John Kluge's estimated $5.2 billion fortune that she would receive, Blair replied, "No, of course not. . . . It's a very amicable separation," he said.

Forbes magazine ranked Kluge as America's richest man last October.

The divorce will be his third and her second.

Katherine Hepburn has begun writing her memoirs and expects to be finished about August.

"I am full of prayer and hope it will be interesting," she said Thursday in a telephone interview from her Manhattan town house. She declined to give details of the book, tentatively titled "Me."

The book will be released in 1991, publishing house representative Alfred A. Knopf announced.

Hepburn, 80, whose "The Making of the African Queen: How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind" was published in 1987, said she usually starts writing about 7 in the morning.

"As long as I can think, I write," she said.