Multi-millionaire businesswoman and socialite Gale Brophy is one of the stars of Netflix’s brand-new reality show, Members Only: Palm Beach, which revolves around a group of wealthy women navigating “social hierarchies and private clubs” in the Florida suburb, including President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.The series premiered on December 29. In its first episode, Brophy, who is also a philanthropist and thoroughbred owner, claimed during a boat party with fellow cast members that forty years ago, she bid against Trump for the ownership of Mar-a-Lago, when the POTUS was a real estate investor and purchased it for residential use.She also mentioned having a free membership to the Mar-a-Lago Club when it was first opened in 1995 and being “best friends” with Donald’s late first wife, Ivana Trump.Gale S. Brophy’s late ex-husband was B. Giles Brophy, a trading and financial entrepreneur, who was also a passionate horse owner. According to Taja Abitbol, another Palm Beach socialite and cast member of the newest Netflix series, Gale was “escorted” out of the Mar-a-Lago Club by the Secret Service when she allegedly approached Donald Trump. The women were there to celebrate their friend and fellow socialite Rosalyn Yellin’s birthday.Abitbol said in a confessional footage:“All I know is that Gale almost got escorted out by the Secret Service because we saw Trump walking by, and she went over to him and she said, ‘Do you remember me?’ He obviously, clearly did not remember her, even though she claims she was bidding against him for Mar-a-Lago.”Taja added that she wasn’t a “hundred per cent sure” that Gale Brophy ever had any history with the Trump family at all. She additionally told Newsweek that the moment was “embarrassing… unbelievable, unreal.”About Gale Brophy’s former husband, B. Giles BrophyB. Giles Brophy founded and owned the New York-based trading company Giles Securities alongside a few financial firms. However, he was best known as the co-owner of the thoroughbred racehorse Strike the Gold that famously won the 1991 Kentucky Derby under the training of Nick Zito.Mr Brophy began buying horses in 1984 and was an operating partner of B.C. Gold Stables. His favorite horse was Thirty Six Red, which won the 1990 Gotham Stakes and Wood Memorial, after being picked by Giles at an auction. The following year, the same horse also came first in the Churchill Downs Handicap.As for Strike the Gold, until 1992, B. Giles Brophy co-owned it with William Condren and Joseph Cornacchia and won $3.4 million during its career, including races such as the Blue Grass Stakes and the Pimlico Special.During a September 1991 interview with the New York Times, Mr Brophy revealed that he was born in New York in 1937 to a labor leader father and later grew up in Bay Shore. He served in the U.S. Army for two years before attending Hofstra University.His first job was at Citibank before he founded his own company, First Pennco Securities, in 1970. A decade later, he sold it off and formed a new firm called Revco Partners, which was later renamed Brophy Gestal Knight. After selling it to Sanwa Bank in 1988, he finally established Giles Security in 1990.About his racing interest, Giles told the publication:“You would have to go back to the 1950s, when I attended a harness meet at Roosevelt Raceway. In those days, Roosevelt used to attract 50,000 fans for a major race. It is a shame that the track closed. But back then, I was a fan. I had four children to feed, and I had no inkling that some day I would become a thoroughbred owner.”Brophy also compared his passion with his profession.“You have your ups and downs in both. The securities business pays the racing bills. But for sheer excitement when things are good in racing, it's a lot more exciting than the securities business,” he said at the time.He also noted that he became keen on racing his horses when one of his business partners, Joe Condren, pitched the idea of buying the animals, and they ended up with seven as a packaged deal from Calumet Farms.The father of five also mentioned loving golf, tennis, hunting, and travelling the worldB. Giles Brophy, who had properties across Florida, Saratoga, Southampton, and Westchester County, died while visiting his family farm in South Carolina in April 2006, after a prolonged battle with bone-marrow cancer and leukaemia. He was 69.He is survived by his six children, Bernard, Eric, Stephen, Andrew, Christopher, and Moira.In brief, about Gale BrophyAccording to her LinkedIn, Gale Brophy is the CEO and owner of Estates by Brophy, located in Palm Beach, Florida. She is also the Board of Directors at various nonprofits, including American Red Cross, Tiffany’s Circle, and Feeding the Hungry. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostEstates by Brophy is a hospitality company that offers:“Two 5-star estate getaways in the Catskills for corporate retreats, weddings, family reunions, and other special events.”With more than ten years of experience, Gale Brophy now oversees operations, marketing, and customer services at her business.Apart from breeding and racing horses and doing charities, Gale Brophy also runs GSB Racing & Breeding Stock, Inc. and is the recipient of the prestigious New York Breeders Award.Ms Brophy, who is a 1975 business major from New York University, also manages and invests in oil, gas, timber, blue stone, and other drilling businesses, spread across her 1200-acre estate.Gale Brophy has also been associated with other family businesses, including Runaway North Farm, LLC, Dubai Direct, Brophy & Nelson Partners, and Brophy Gestal Knight Partnership.Before becoming a millionaire socialite, she worked at banks and trading companies like DLJ, Refco Partners, First Pennco, Sanwa BGK Bank, and The Shorenstein Company.Despite Taja Abitbol’s doubts about Gale Brophy’s past connections to the Trumps, Newsweek has reported that she has previously been pictured with Donald Trump, his second wife, Marla Maples, and daughter Tiffany Trump during a Red Cross Polo Luncheon in the 1990s.Gale Brophy also posted a picture of herself with Donald Trump on Facebook from the 2015 ADT LGPA Golf Tournament at the Trump International Golf Course. At the time, she was a chair, while the POTUS was the honorary chair.