The former US president announced the death of his ex-wife on Thursday, July 14. Flashback to a whirlwind fifteen-year romance between social gatherings, infidelity, and a noisy divorce.
She was Donald Trump’s first wife long before the presidency, state scandals and sexual harassment allegations. Ivana Trump has died at the age of 73 in Manhattan, her ex-husband announced Thursday, July 14, in a press release published on his Truth Social platform. “It is with deep sadness that I inform those who loved her, and there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York,” he wrote. She was a wonderful, beautiful, incredible woman who led a great and inspiring life.”
Before adding: “Her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, were her joy and pride. He was so proud of them and we were all so proud of him. Rest in peace, Ivana.” Agreed New York Post, would have been found inert at the foot of his staircase in the seventies. If the reasons for her disappearance are not yet known, then Lwana Trump may have suffered a heart attack. In recent years, the Czech-American businesswoman has developed peaceful relations with her ex-husband. However, this has not always been the case.
Quick wedding
Donald and Ivana Trump, then models, met in New York in 1976. The first was 30 years old, the second was 27. An evening that the business woman told personally in the columns. New York Post, four decades later. In the mid-1970s, Ivana waits patiently with her friends, hoping for a table at a restaurant. That’s when she crossed paths with a real estate mogul. “There was this tall blonde with blue eyes, he remembered. He said. “I’m Donald Trump and I see you’re looking for a table. I can help you.” Then he goes to his group. “The good news is that we’ll have a table very quickly. The bad news is that this guy is going to sit with us.”
The billionaire pays the bill, then disappears. Ivana Zelnichkova (under her maiden name) finds him in the driver’s seat of her limousine outside the facility. The heir offers a group of friends to drive him home. After that, the businessman and the former Olympic skier meet again on many occasions. Thus begins a whirlwind romance. Less than a year after meeting, the couple sealed their union and gave birth to a son, Donald Jr., in December 1977. She then welcomed Ivanka in 1981 and Eric in 1984.
In the video, Donald and Ivana Trump’s “Pizza Hut” commercial in 1995
“In 50 years we will be the Rockefellers”
In social life, Ivana helps her new husband to strengthen his popularity. It was he who gave him the nickname “Donald”, which was spread by all the American tabloids, in which he also appears regularly. He also who says: “We’ll be the Rockefellers in 50 years.” Him again, who turns with him in a Pizza Hut commercial, in 1995. Together, they browse social evenings like the Manhattan Awards or the Tiffany Ball.
The only downside is the repeated infidelities of Donald Trump, who will be right in their marriage. One of the billionaire’s conquests is none other than Marla Maple, a model he wooed in the early 1990s. Ivana discovered the rose pot at Christmas 1989 while in Aspen. The Trumps were then seen arguing after Ivana allegedly bumped into Marla Maples. This is too much for the businesswoman who filed for divorce in 1992. In public, Donald Trump refuses any effusion. “It will be an amicable divorce, I promise you that,” he reportedly said at the time. People. Look, we never argued. The children never saw anything wrong. And they will be fine. He’ll be fine.”
A bitter divorce, dollars and a spy father
Divorce is especially bloody. Agreed New York Daily NewsIvana Trump allegedly accused her husband of raping her and pulling her hair. Before she refused, saying under oath that she felt “raped” but did not want to talk about rape in the “literal or criminal sense” of the word. However, he is contesting their prenuptial agreement, which gives him custody of their three children, as well as their $3 million (€2.9 million) home in Connecticut and a $25 million (€24 million) euro settlement.
In turn, their eldest daughter is crying her heart out. “Mom, does that mean my name won’t be Ivanka Trump anymore,” he allegedly asked the businesswoman. Ivana and Donald Trump come to an agreement together. The billionaire’s ex-girlfriend receives $14 million (€13 million) in compensation and becomes the owner of a mansion in Connecticut and a 118-room residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. In October 1990, Donald Trump even attended the funeral of Ivana’s father, a spy who provided information on the tycoon on behalf of the Czech secret services and the KGB, thanks to his daughter’s trust. After that, Ivana Trump will escape the limelight for a while.
“I’m the First Lady”
In 1993, Donald Trump married Marla Maple, with whom he had a daughter, Tiffany. Their divorce will be announced six years later. The relationship between the billionaire and his ex-wife Ivana remains, as far as they are concerned, the warmest. He will even have access to his own personal phone line at the White House during Trump’s presidency.
Nor will he go on a crusade against Melania Trump, who has been married to the politician since 2005. But he would allow himself this killer answer in a 2017 interview with Good Morning America: jealousy or something but i’m trump first. the wife, he says later. OK? I am the first lady.” Words like their flamboyant and whimsical author, who will forever keep the name of her first husband, despite her two subsequent unions.
Source: Le Figaro
