Plastic Surgeons Try To Solve Trump’s Hair Mystery Video of the wind revealing an apparent surgical scar had observers scratching their heads. Professionals say it’s a clue to what the president did or didn’t have done in the ‘80s.
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A video released on Monday appears to show an incision line down the middle of Trump’s rear scalp as his hair blows in the wind while boarding Air Force One. The clip, which has garnered over four million views, reignited speculation that the president received scalp reduction surgery in 1989.
Trump’s ex-wife Ivana claimed in a 1990 divorce deposition that plastic surgeon Steven Hoefflin, whose past clients included Michael Jackson, Joan Rivers, and Elizabeth Taylor, operated on Trump. He denied the claim, according to a 1993 Newsday report.
The Daily Beast talked with two top plastic surgeons to discuss the procedure and whether or not it appears Trump had it done.
Scalp-reduction surgery pulls sections of the scalp forward to fill in a bald spot.
Dr. Lisa Ishii, a professor of otolaryngology (an ear, nose, and throat specialist) at John Hopkins University says the surgery can be tricky.
“Scalp skin is very stiff skin. It’s very hard to pull together the skin edges and get them to close to each other if you cut out anything beyond a half dollar size piece of skin,”she said.
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“Yes, if you see a vertical incision on the back of the scalp on the crown, that’s very typical of a scalp reduction.”
Given how common scalp reduction surgery was in the 1990s, Lam told The Daily Beast, “most likely, he had it.”
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Ivana swore in a deposition that Donald violently assaulted her after a botched scalp reduction:
Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a “scalp reduction” operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, “with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’?” Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.
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Before Hurt’s book came out, Trump’s lawyers pressured the publisher, W. W. Norton, to paste a clarifying statement from Ivana into the flyleaf of every copy. In it, she confirmed that she had said in a deposition that her husband had “raped” her, but added that she did not want those words to be interpreted in “a literal or criminal sense.” She also said, “As a woman, I felt violated.” Hurt said that he considers the note a non-denial denial, and believes that Ivana agreed to amend her words in order to secure the divorce settlement, in which she reportedly received fourteen million dollars in cash.
When the rape story resurfaced last summer, Ivana issued a statement saying that it was “without merit.” “She and Donald have raised three kids together. They’re picking their bedrooms in the White House,” Hurt said. “But she’s not saying it’s untrue, or that she didn’t swear to it under oath.”
Trump was deposed during the divorce, too. According to a report by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, which examined the divorce records, Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination approximately a hundred times when Ivana’s lawyers asked him about adulterous relations with other women.
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Recalling the second debate, in which Trump insisted that his “locker-room talk” was only talk and not action, Hurt said, “He was lying. I know full well he has done that. His own wife said so, under oath.”
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