Trump Bodyguard Accused of Having Sex With Marla Died From A Drug Overdose

When Spencer Wagner was hired to be Donald Trump's bodyguard, the martial arts expert probably thought he was onto a good thing.

Watching the backs of the billionaire and his then-wife, actress and present-day Dancing With the Stars contestant Marla Maples, must have seemed like a cushy position.

But he had no idea that the position would end in infamy and scandal - and destroy his spirit - as his ex-wife, Mary Miller, told Inside Edition Friday.

Wagner found himself having trouble handling the party-loving actress, then in her thirties, Miller told said.

'She was out of control and he made no bones telling me that,' she said. 'She just loved to party a lot. She liked to go down to Miami and party when she was in town.'

Miller recalled: 'He said she would try to pull him into a bedroom in the house and she was aggressive.'

The pair grew closer, Miller says - and eventually found themselves caught up in scandal.

At 4am on April 16, 1996, a cop patrolling a beach near Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm, Beach, Florida made a surprising discovery.

He found Wagner, then 34, 'hiding under a lifeguard stand' on the beach, the NY Daily News reported that year.

According to a National Enquirer report, Wagner claimed he was there alone until Maples, then 33, emerged from underneath the stand wearing 'tight, black spandex leggings and a skimpy jogging top.'

The cop issued Wagner with a parking ticket and told the pair to move along, but the story broke soon after and tongues were set wagging.

Maples claimed that she had been caught short and had to take a bathroom break, and Wagner denied claims of an affair too.

And a Trump spokesman said at the time, 'Along the lines of Elvis sightings and Martian invasions, the National Enquirer has once again fabricated a wholly unreliable cover story for this week's issue.'

But the rumors continued to swirl, media hounded Wagner, and four months later he was fired. The following year Trump and Maples split, and in 1999 they divorced.

'It probably bruised [Trump's] ego big time that here's this big strong Donald Trump and this bodyguard that he hires, ends up looking like he's having sex with his wife,' Miller told Inside Edition.

Miller said she doesn't believe her husband had an affair with Maples, and that he had denied the claims privately with her - 'He's not a sleazy guy,' she added.

But after he was fired, Wagner came forward and said he had slept with Maples after their 'passion boiled over.'

That may have been an attempt to get money, however, as the bodyguard business dried up for him after the scandal.

'These are older men with young wives and Spencer's a great-looking guy and a bodyguard, Miller explained, of her ex-husband's troubled career. 'C'mon!'

Wagner ultimately died on January 1, 2012 of a drug overdose - the result, she said, of a scandal that blew his life apart. 'It crushed him,' she said.

Marples moved to California, where she raised Tammy Trump, the daughter she had with her ex-husband. She most recently appeared on Dancing With the Stars.