New York (AP) — Ivana Trump turned from a skier to a business woman who formed half of the advertising couple as the mother of former President Donald Trump’s first wife and his oldest children in the 1980s. He died in New York City. Her family announced on Thursday. She was 73 years old.
“It’s very sad to let everyone who loved her know that Ivana Trump died at her home in New York City,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “She was a wonderful woman who lived a wonderful, beautiful, wonderful and wonderful life. Her pride and joy was her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. We all made her so much. She was so proud of them that she was so proud of them. Rest in peace, Ivanka! “
Their children also released a statement stating her as “an incredible woman-business power, world-class athletes, brilliant beauty and compassionate mothers and friends. Ivana Trump survived.” Did.
“She escaped communism and accepted the country,” the statement continued. “She taught her children about gravel and toughness, compassion and determination. She will be truly missed by her mother, three children and ten grandchildren.”
Czech-born ski racer and sometimes model Ivana Trump married a future president in 1977.
She has become an icon in her own right, full of 80’s style and elegance, with accents and her distinctive beehive hairstyle. She finally starred in the 1996 hit movie “The First Wives Club” and is now the famous “Woman, you need to be strong and independent. Don’t be angry. Get it all.” . “
Love and business partners Ivana and Donald, such as Atlantic City’s casino manager, were similarly exposed and equipment of the scene seen in New York before the messy divorce. Donald Trump met his next wife, Marla Maples.
During the split, Ivana Trump raped him in an affidavit in the early 1990s. She said she later felt that she was violating rather than literally meaning it.
Nevertheless, she eventually remained friendly with her ex-husband, whom she famously called “Donald.” She enthusiastically supported the operation of his 2016 White House, Told the New York Post In 2016 she was both a supporter and an advisor.
“I suggest a few things,” she told the newspaper. “We talk before and after the appearance, and he asks me what I thought.” She said she advised him “more calm.”
“But Donald can’t settle down,” she added. “He’s very straightforward. He just says it.”
No matter how supportive she was, she sometimes ruffled her wings.
In 2017, while promoting the book, she talked to “Good Morning America” about every two weeks with the then president and knew the White House’s direct number, but “Melania was there and I You’re basically the first Trump’s wife, so you don’t want to cause any kind of jealousy, right? “She said with a laugh. “I’m the first lady, right?”
A spokesman for Melania Trump at the time said, “This statement from the beginning was clearly insubstantial. Unfortunately, this is just a cautionary and self-serving noise.”
Ivana Trump was born in 1949 in the city of Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia. She was formerly Zlín, but in 1948 she was renamed by a Communist who hijacked the country. She married her second husband, Trump, in 1977.