April 18, 2005 -- DONALD Trump Jr.'s beautiful bride-to-be, Vanessa Haydon, continues to be dogged by gossip about her long-running romance with a Latin King gang member who served time on Rikers Island.Haydon, 27, a former Wilhelmina model whose ex-lovers include Leonardo DiCaprio and a Saudi prince, met the Latin King known as Vallantine when she was a teenager attending the posh Dwight private school.A source close to the situation claims that Haydon dated Vallantine on-and-off for six years, briefly moved into his apartment in Astoria, and frequently visited him behind bars after he was convicted of drugs and weapons charges.Our insider adds that the teenage Haydon even attended meetings of the Kings' female auxiliary, the Latin Queens, and wore the gang's yellow club colors.Haydon's spokesman, Richard Rubenstein, told us: "She dated him when she was 15. She broke up with him before he was a member of the Latin Kings. She visited him at Rikers one time after they had already broken up to translate for his mother who spoke no English. She didn't go to Latin Queen meetings, and she's never worn any colors."Still, Haydon's unlikely connection to the Latin Kings has been whispered about for years. In a 1998 New York magazine story about DiCaprio, an anonymous Dwight classmate of Haydon said of the future Trump fiancée: "She was an ill thug. She went out with this Latin King for like three years."Another unidentified friend of Haydon told New York, "Now she's all dolled up and ladylike and [bleep], but she used to be this hard-rock in leather and baggy jeans. She was a total gangster bitch."Haydon first made headlines when she was spotted smooching with DiCaprio — then the hottest star on the planet thanks to "Titanic" — at a SoHo party in 1998.Her modeling career subsequently exploded, but her romance with DiCaprio fizzled after only a month.New York magazine reported at the time that Haydon was spotted at an after-party for the Tony Shafrazi Gallery opening on Bond Street telling a gossip columnist about how happy DiCaprio was to finally be with someone as "down to earth" as herself.Her handlers capitalized on her fling with DiCaprio by charging Sydney newspapers $15,000 for advance stills of her cover shoot for Australian Harper's Bazaar. In 2003, Vanessa opened the club Sessa with her sister Veronika. The club closed later that year. SOURCE