Donald Trump ex-wife Marla Maples won’t have to face her freaky footwear fetishist in court again under a hush-hush deal in a bizarre harassment and stalking case now being negotiated in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Chuck Jones — the publicist convicted of burglary in 1999 for stealing Maples’ shoes and admittedly enjoying a “sexual relationship” with with them — is charged with continuing to creep out the so-called “Georgia Peach” last year via nasty emails. “Sh– for brains” and “home-wrecking whore,” he repeatedly called Maples, who lives now in California.
When he was busted last month he rejected prosecutors’ offer that they’d recommend six months jail if he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and stalking and felony possession of a stun gun.
But at a court appearance today, the parties were so confident that a no-trial deal could be struck by the end of August that they asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel to forestall setting a schedule for pretrial filings.
The judge — noting that negotiations fall through all the time — ordered the defense to prepare pre-trial filings anyway and set Aug. 29 as Jones’ next court date, for the possible deal, on which neither prosecutors nor defense lawyer Donald Vogelman would elaborate.
Jones left court without commenting; he remains free on $100,000 bail.