--- ---  # Brooke Shields Says She Turned Down Donald Trump's Offer to Date 'America's Richest Man'  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 4, 2017 6:17 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Actress Brooke Shields attends Sachin & Babi fashion show during New York Fashion Week on September 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Mireya Acierto/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Actress Brooke Shields attends Sachin & Babi fashion show during New York Fashion Week on September 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Mireya Acierto/Getty Images)Mireya Acierto—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 4, 2017 6:17 PM UTC [Brooke Shields](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1968770%5F1968785%5F1998710,00.html) said that [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4968074/donald-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico/) tried to ask her out by bragging about being “America’s richest man.” During an appearance on _Watch What Happens Live!_, Shields told Andy Cohen that Trump approached her with a pragmatic pitch to become a power couple over the phone after he separated from Marla Maples in the ’90s. “I was on location doing a movie and he called me right after he gotten a divorce,” Shields said. “And he said, ‘I really think we should date because you’re America’s sweetheart and I’m America’s richest man and the people would love it.’” Unfortunately for Trump, Shields wasn’t terribly impressed by his line and let Trump know that she was unavailable, telling him that “I have a boyfriend, he’s not really going to be happy about it.” Shields isn’t the only high-profile woman who’s rejected Trump’s advances; [Candice Bergen said that she had an awkward first date with him](http://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/) and [Salma Hayek also said](http://people.com/celebrity/salma-hayek-donald-trump-asked-out-boyfriend/) that he had attempted to hit on her while she was with her boyfriend at the time. Watch the full clip below. Donald Trump Asked Out Brooke Shields But She Rejected Him ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4969162/brooke-shields-donald-trump-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4969162/brooke-shields-donald-trump-date/"},"headline":"Brooke Shields Says She Turned Down Donald Trump's Offer to Date 'America's Richest Man'","datePublished":"2017-10-04T18:17:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:46.547Z","description":"\"I was on location doing a movie and he called me right after he gotten a divorce\"","url":"https://time.com/4969162/brooke-shields-donald-trump-date/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","watch what happens live","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c4dd7619c32890d/6988e091fb4eac403a89400a/brooke-shields-donald-trump-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c4dd7619c32890d/6988e091fb4eac403a89400a/brooke-shields-donald-trump-date.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sachin & Babi - Front Row - September 2017 - New York Fashion Week","caption":"Sachin & Babi - Front Row - September 2017 - New York Fashion Week","creditText":"Mireya Acierto—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4969162/brooke-shields-donald-trump-date/","name":"Brooke Shields Says She Turned Down Donald Trump's Offer to Date 'America's Richest Man'"}}]}] ```