Don’t expect fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone to be working with Donald Trump in this lifetime.
In her book, “If You Have To Cry, Go Outside,” co-written with Observer scribe Meredith Bryan and hitting stores on Feb. 2, Cutrone, whose new Bravo show “Kell on Earth” premieres the day before, chronicles a meeting she claims she had with Trump back when he owned the Plaza Hotel.
“It all started when he invited Eartha Kitt, our client, to perform at the Plaza,” Cutrone writes. After running into Trump at the party, Cutrone says Trump gave her his business card and asked for a meeting.
Cutrone was hesitant at the idea of handling Trump’s publicity, because one of his pals, boxer Mike Tyson, was facing rape charges. Still, Cutrone writes, she took the meeting at Trump’s Fifth Avenue office.
“I’d like to ask you a few questions to see how you’d handle certain situations,” Trump asked her, according to the book.
“He told me that he was going to say a few names and that I was to answer ‘hot,’ ‘very hot,’ or ‘hot hot,’ Cutrone relates. “The first name was Ivana, his newly ex-wife.” When Cutrone replied that she was “hot,” Trump asked why she wasn’t “very hot.” “She hasn’t been away from you long enough for us to know how she’s going to do on her own,” Cutrone explained.
Trump then asked about Marla Maples, Trump’s girlfriend at the time. “She’s not even hot,” Cutrone replied.
Finally, Trump asked about himself. “Barely hot,” Cutrone said, adding that Trump should be “ashamed” of himself for supporting Tyson, and that she found his behavior “disgusting.” “I thanked him politely for seeing me, and I left,” she says.
Trump tells us: “I’ve never heard of the woman. I’ve never had a business card, and I don’t hand them out. This conversation never took place. She’s accusing me of being loyal to Mike Tyson. He’s always been 100 percent loyal with me. What’s wrong with being loyal to someone who is behind you?”