Ivana Trump

The former president announced her death on social media.

She kept his surname. Born under Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia to an engineer and a telephone operator, Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump was a skier and fashion model who immigrated to the Americas in the 1970s, first arriving in Canada. Ivana Trump was the former president’s first wife.

She helped build his real estate empire, and the two became known as New York's quintessential 1980s power couple.

We can’t just put it in escrow and go to the White House. It would go down the drain in a second. “I was in charge of raising our children before our divorce, and I had sole custody of them after the split. But in ten years Donald is going to be just fifty-one years old — a young man.” Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. She held even more sway over the growing Trump household. She used her business prowess to great effect as well. Mrs. Trump soon became an equal, if behind-the-scenes, partner in Mr. Trump’s business. We have invested in this town close to a billion dollars. The New York City police are investigating whether Ms. Trump fell down the stairs at her home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, just off Fifth Avenue near Central Park, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter. The couple’s 1990 divorce, driven in part by Mr. Trump’s affair with Marla Maples, whom he later married, provided tabloid fodder for weeks. A spokeswoman for the city’s chief medical examiner said the office would be investigating the death. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.

"She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life," former President Donald Trump said.

- "She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Driving the news: The former Twitter employee also testified that the platform considered adopting a "stricter" moderation policy after Trump told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" during the first 2020 presidential debate, but the company "chose not to act." A former Twitter employee told the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday that former President Trump seemed to be "speaking directly to extremist organizations and giving them directives" on the platform.

Ivana, a Czech-American socialite, businesswoman and former model was married to Donald Trump from from 1977 to 1992.

Not the Washington life and all that, just in New York or wherever they’re going to be and just live their normal lives. “I really don’t care.” She said that her ex was “not a good loser,” and that she wanted to her children “to be able to live their normal lives—normal lives. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. While Ivana largely stayed out of her ex-husband's most recent politics, she maintained a close relationship with him throughout his campaigns and presidency, and suggested to the New York Post that she informally advised him in 2016. Ivana Trump grew up in the former Czechoslovakia, before moving to Canada in the 1970s, where she became a model. She married Donald Trump in 1977, and they welcomed their first child, Donald Jr., on the last day of that year.

Former president pays tribute to 'wonderful' mother to Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric, born in then Czechoslovakia in 1949.

The story resurfaced when Trump ran for the presidency in 2015. The fact that the kids and I came through the entire ordeal stronger is irrelevant.” She became a skier, ski instructor and model, and married Donald Trump, then a New York real estate magnate, in 1977. Her pride and joy were her three children … She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. She actively participated in humiliating me in the media and indirectly put my kids at risk for months. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.

Former Pres. Trump confirmed his ex-wife's death in a post on his Truth Social platform, writing: "She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman."

She later married Rossano Rubicondi, an Italian model and actor, tying the knot in 2008 at her ex-husband's Mar-a-Lago estate. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Ivana Trump," the Trump family said in a statement. “I suggest a few things,” Ivana Trump said. She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and ten grandchildren.” "I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City," former President Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. "Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric," he continued.

Ivana Trump, a longtime businessperson and an ex-wife of Donald Trump, has died in her home in New York City, the former President posted Thursday on Truth ...

They've grown apart, and even when they were together they seemed to be cut in different ways, but they do share an approach to life: all out, all the time." "I have a perfect life." I will miss her forever and will keep her memory alive in our hearts always." She lived life to the fullest -- never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and dance. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. The New York Police Department said later Thursday there did not "appear to be any criminality" related to Ivana Trump's death.

Ivana Trump was Donald Trump's first wife. They had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump. "Our mother was an incredible woman -- a force ...

"She lived life to the fullest -- never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and dance," Ivanka Trump said on Twitter while sharing a childhood photo of herself with her mother. Ivana Trump was found unconscious and unresponsive at the bottom of a set of stairs in her apartment, according to police sources. She added, when they "were about 18-years-old," "he could communicate with them, because he could start to talk business with them." "Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric," he wrote. "She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and ten grandchildren." She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination," the family said.

“I am basically first Trump wife – I am first lady, OK?” She was indeed the first of the former US president Donald J Trump's three wives, the one with the ...

She was found dead at the foot of the stairs in her New York apartment, with a heart attack suspected as the cause. She hosted a reality show, Ivana Young Man, on the Oxygen network and in 2010 appeared on the British Celebrity Big Brother. In 1996 she had a cameo in the movie The First Wives Club, advising Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler: “Don’t get mad, get everything.” Ivana and Trump fought publicly after the model Marla Maples, with whom Trump was having an affair, introduced herself to Ivana, by Ivana’s account saying: “I’m Marla and I love your husband.” The divorce was granted in 1990. Their first child, Donald Jr, was born in December that year; a daughter, Ivana (known as Ivanka), in 1981; and another son, Eric, in 1984. In 1972 she had what she called a “cold war” marriage to a friend, the Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr, which allowed her to get an Austrian passport and travel without losing the right to return home. Ivana’s suit cited “cruel and inhumane” treatment; her deposition accused Trump of raping her and pulling out her hair. For a man notoriously averse to sharing the limelight, Trump was unusually willing to cede half to Ivana. Her attention to every detail, from plumbing to painting, was compared to a general’s. She filled the nouveau-Babylonian Trump Tower with pink marble and gold leaf. Ivana was born in Gottwaldov in Czechoslovakia (now Zlín, in the Czech Republic). Her father, Miloš Zelníček, was an electrical engineer, her mother, Marie (nee Francová), a telephone operator. As vice-president of interior design for the Trump Organization, her motto became: “If something could be leafed in gold or upholstered in damask, it was,” and the rule applied to her: with big golden hair, and upholstered lips and body, she was the embodiment of Trump style.

Donald Trump's rise to fame was fueled as much by first wife Ivana's brash charisma as his own heat-seeking swagger and ambition.

“He has to go and declare that he lost.” As with a number of elements of the Donald Trump story, it was often hard to parse the truth of the Ivana story. When she married her fourth husband in 2008, the wedding was held at Mar-a-Lago, with Trump in attendance. At one point, Ivana gave a deposition in their divorce proceedings in which she accused Trump of sexually assaulting her after an argument. In an ingratiating way, she seemed to recognize the absurdity of her Zsa Zsa-meets-Real Housewife persona while also playing it to the hilt. Like him, she relished the spotlight and often spoke to reporters.

She was the mother of Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.

"And I don't need to worry about the bad knee and bad back and Viagra and all that stuff." Why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami in the winter, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in the summer, and bye-bye to spring and fall in New York? I have a perfect life." She wrote that she told Maples to "get lost," but Ivana ultimately filed for divorce in March 1990. Should I not tweet?'" she said. "And I turned to my girlfriend. But Ivana Trump kept her ex-husband's surname and supported his presidential candidacy. During the Christmas holidays in 1989, Marla Maples, who was having an affair with Trump, came up to Ivana at a restaurant in Aspen, according to Ivana's book. She lived life to the fullest — never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and dance," Ivanka Trump wrote. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. "I will miss her forever and will keep her memory alive in our hearts always." She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and ten grandchildren." She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination.

Dennis Basso, a longtime friend and furrier, recalls his many collaborations with the first Ms. Trump.

Between her move out of Trump Tower and the renovations of her new home, he said, “one of her assistants sent it over for safekeeping.” And her relationship with her ex-husband Mr. Trump had been friendly in recent years. The relationship between Ms. Trump and Mr. Basso was by no means exclusive. “It was hanging in my office,” he said. Ms. Trump, he said, wanted most of all to be known as a good mother. “One was a pale silver silk shantung maxi-coat lined in deep, deep sheared magenta fur,” Mr. Basso said. Ms. Trump’s close friend Nikki Haskell was a bridesmaid. But it was, for the decade in which she and Mr. Trump first made their public mark, the epitome of a certain go-go 1980s New York style. But Ms. Trump had grown up in Czechoslovakia, shortly after it became a communist dictatorship. “It’s smaller than my dressing room closet” was how she put it, Mr. Basso recalled. In its place was a Brigitte Bardot-inspired bouffant. One caught by Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and defined by chinchilla stoles, leopard-print shirtdresses, and Upper East Side ready-fitted trousers in soft colors.