The first wife of Donald Trump died at the age of 73, on Thursday, July 14, the Republican billionaire announced. Another skiing champion, interior designer, reality TV star, cougar, jet-set icon… His life was full.
She was a professional skier, model, interior designer, casino manager, palace manager, author, reality TV star, jet-set icon… After a very full life, Ivana Trump died at the age of 73, as her ex reported. – husband Donald Trump this Thursday, July 14. “It is with great sadness that I inform all those who loved her, and there were many of them, that Ivana Trump died at her home in New York,” the former US president wrote on his social network. Truth Social.
Throughout her life, it was to him that Ivana owed her growing notoriety. Because if Melania is the official companion of Donald Trump today, Ivana is still the former partner of the real estate mogul and the mother of the heirs, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka. Portrait:
In the video, Donald and Ivana Trump’s “Pizza Hut” commercial in 1995
From the athlete of Czechoslovakia…
Ivana Zelnikova was born in 1949 in the Czech Republic, which was then part of the Soviet bloc. Born prematurely at 7 months, he spent the first months of his life in an incubator, according to an ABC News documentary about him. An only child, the father, who dreamed of having a son, trained hard in sports. “He was challenging me, saying, ‘If you can swim from here to there, I’ll give you five dollars.’ So I was swimming,” she told Fashion Week Daily.
At the age of 15, Ivana is part of the junior ski team and has the opportunity to travel outside the borders of the communist bloc. The teenager admires this luxurious and foreign world, but remains under the watchful eye of the regime, the latter wants to avoid any attempt to escape. In 1967, she moved to Prague, entered university and began a modeling career. Soon the outflow of the Prague Spring was brutally suppressed. Ivana wants to leave the country, but fears that her parents will suffer the failure of her freedom. The only way to escape is to marry a stranger. In 1971, a fake marriage was arranged with Austrian skier Alfred Winkelmeier. At the same time, she leaves her first love, George Sirovatka, for Yuri Steidal, a poet, composer and playboy. A little later he died in a car accident. Devastated, Ivana leaves for Canada permanently with her uncles and aunt, 1973.
Ivana Trump sees herself as ambassador to the Czech Republic
There she ended her marriage and continued her modeling career. Then one day in a restaurant in New York, he is approached by a thirtysomething named Donald Trump. He tells her that he wants to conquer Manhattan. During their ski vacation in Aspen, she discovers a talent as a skier. Delighted, he asks her to marry him after only a few months of dating. Trump’s first couple was born.
Donald Trump’s wife and “working girl”.
The Czech immigrant now lives in a loft on 5th Avenue. In 1977, Donald Jr. was born. Ivana gradually spread her talent as a decorator, so much so that she was appointed the vice president of the interior design department of the Trump Organization. Ivanka was born in 1981. Shortly after, the Trumps built the symbol of their success, the Trump Tower. Ivana covers the lobby wall with fountains. For the triplex the couple reserved for themselves on the top three floors of the tower, he recreated an interior worthy of the Palace of Versailles, adorned with gold and crystal.
But Ivana is not a figure. He was a working girl years ago, when daughter Ivanka declared herself the muse of active women. Her husband also named her CEO of Trump Castle & Casino, then director of the Plaza Hotel, where she oversaw all food services. As the supposed bling couple, Donald and Ivana Trump have become important figures in New York society, easily recognizable at charity galas and parts, she with her pursed mouth and combed hair, he with her vertical and rounded fur, permanent smile and satin sheath dresses. The couple is successful in every way and soon has a third child, Eric.
The woman through whom the scandal reaches
Ivana attracts more and more light. The duo leaves… “When you come home, you want to find your wife, not the CEO,” Donald Trump later told ABC News. He will trust another release of the chain in 1994. I think it’s a very bad idea to make your wife work for you (…). This was the main reason for my divorce with Ivana.”
As her love affair goes sour, Ivana embarks on another… cosmetic surgery. But it is already late. In 1989, Marla Maples, Donald’s mistress, claimed the man for herself. The tycoon does not want to make a choice and assures Ivana that they will be able to stay married only if she accepts his deviations. The diva refuses, asks for a divorce and goes to humiliate her unfaithful husband by opening the affair in the media, according to ABC News. A media-court tornado begins, where the former New York high-society star couple wrangles over the terms of the divorce and the gruesome details of the infidelity.
According to Ivana Trump, the case became better than the political ambitions of Donald Trump, who at that time was already thinking about the White House. “There was the divorce, the scandal, and American women loved me and hated him,” he said in April last year. New York Post . In October 1990, Ivana suddenly lost her father. The family stays together and Donald accompanies his former companion to the funeral. The divorce is proceeding amicably. In December 1990, the contract was signed by paying the abused woman more than $10 million, according to. Gala . With $473,000 a year in alimony, Ivana is raising their three children until they reach majority. “When they were 21 and graduated from college, I gave them to Donald and said, “Here is the final product, now it’s your job,” said the girl. party girl at Fashion Week Daily.
The happily divorced
Ivana always smiles and never regrets. The 1990s may have marked a father, a husband, a job, his place in Trump Tower tripled in gold… But who cares if the party goes on and the invitations keep coming. It Business woman seeks his conversion. he is writing a book Only for love, before going teleshopping and continuing the occasional parade for creator Thierry Mugler. She quickly falls into the arms of Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli. They like skiing and yachting. The marriage was celebrated in 1995. Their divorce was in 1997.
Ivana then leaves to make big love with an aristocrat and jetsetter, another Italian, Rofredo Gaetani d’Aragona, who met in Monte-Carlo, reports: New York Times . He manages the Ferrari brand in Long Island and New England. Playboy gives her one, red of course, for her birthday and takes her to the Bahamas on vacation. Ivana is having fun. The bubbly divorcée even stars in a seduction-themed Pizza Hut ad with Donald still covered in jewelry. The two horrible exes are now friends. In the evening, he introduces him to his third wife, Melania. She releases a perfume, a line of cosmetics… And even appears in a movie Former club (from Hugh Wilson, 1996), advising Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette Midler, who were neglected by their husbands;Don’t get mad, get it all.(“Don’t be mad, take it all”).
Italians and parties
In the 2000s, Ivana rose to become a jet-set icon…and a major cougar. He admires the company of young Italians. She marries the aura of one of them, Rossano Rubicondi, a fake actor and model gold digger (gold digger), twenty years younger than him. Donald Trump himself lends her his home in Florida for the ceremony. But the lucky winner cheats on her less than a year later, on a live TV show. Exit Rossano, Ivana in turn teams up (and without marrying, this time) with Antonio Zequila, Marcantonio Rota and John-David Derry (one of the ephemeral stars of The Secret History).
Like his friend Massimo Gargía, he has indulged himself in the reality TV game on several occasions. His evening companions are called Orlando, Igor Bogdanoff or Sean “Diddy” Combs. The rest of the time she juggles three lovers, lives winter in Miami, fall in New York, summer in St. Tropez, parties in Sardinia with Roberto Cavalli, buys her bikinis in St. Barthelemy, vows not to go after bed. at 1 a.m. and drink two glasses of wine a day, she told Fashion Week Daily.
Ambassador soon.
Who will clean our living rooms and clean up after us?
When he’s not there dance floor, 67-year-old Ivana takes care of her grandchildren. To: Paris game he recounts his afternoon grandmother “They sing and dance for me. They play, eat sweets. And when her most famous ex and partner declares himself a candidate for the US presidential election, she supports him… in her own way. In April 2016, he assured New York Post They have the same opinion on immigration. “As long as you come here with a legal, real job… We need immigrants. Who will clean our living rooms and clean up after us? Americans don’t like to do that.”
After Trump’s coronation on November 9, the courageous woman claims what she feels is her due: the position of American ambassador to the Czech Republic. The President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, stated that the ties between the two countries will only strengthen. The show must go on.
Source: Le Figaro
