Ivana Trump, a ski player who turned into a business woman who formed half of the pair of publicity power in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and the mother of the oldest children, had died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. He is 73 years old.
Former President posted on his social media application that he died at his home in Manhattan.
She is an extraordinary, beautiful, and extraordinary woman, who lives a great and inspirational life,” he wrote about social truth. The couple shared three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.
“He is very proud of them, because we are all very proud of him,” he wrote. “Rest peacefully, Ivana!”
Two people who are familiar with this problem told the Associated Press that the police were investigating whether Ivana Trump fell down the stairs and believed that his death was unintentional.
He was found unconscious near the stairs at home, said people. People cannot discuss this problem publicly and speak to the AP on anonymous conditions. The medical examination office will determine the official cause of death.
It’s a very sad day, a very sad day,” Eric Trump said when he left his mother’s house near Central Park.
In a statement, he and his siblings called him “A woman who is extraordinary in business, world-class athletes, a mother and friend and friends who care,” and a survivor.
He fled from communism and embraced this country,” the three said in a statement. “He teaches his children about fortitude and toughness, compassion and determination.”
A Czech Birth Ski racer and a model sometimes, he met with the future president in the 1970s and quickly regarded him as “intelligent and funny-a good man of All-America,” when he wrote in the book 2017. The couple was married in 1977.
He became an icon on his own right, dripping style and glamor in the 80s, complete with his distinctive blonde updo. He affected the Over-The-Top Stone Patsy appearance in the classic British sitcom “truly extraordinary,” with characters who praised Ivana as “extraordinary” in one episode.
Trump himself will eventually appear in the film Hit 1996 “The First Wives Club” with a well -known line, Ladies, you must be strong and independent, and remember, don’t be angry, get everything.”
The Trump becomes a partner in love and business. He manages one of his Atlantic City casinos and helps to make Trump Menara as a successful image of the 80s (or advantages, for some people).
He refused the architects to get a 60 feet waterfall installed at the Trump Tower atrium, and he went to the Italian mine to choose the famous Breccia Rosy-Beige Marble Pernice Mine coat the floor and walls, according to biographical writer Donald Trump Wayne Barrett.
Barbara Res, a former executive of the Trump organization who is responsible for the construction of a skyscraper, considering that Ivana helped the decorator and put a strong interest in details like a doorman uniform.
He did all that to impress Donald, to win his approval, “said Res.” He travels back and forth all the time, and leaves his children. He has an extraordinary work ethic. “
Both are equipment from the scene of seeing-and-seeing in New York before those who are both public, and the messy divorce, 1992. Donald Trump has met the next wife, Marla Maples.
“I can’t turn on the television without hearing my name,” Ivana Trump wrote in his book.
During the split, Ivana Trump accused him of rape in the oath statement in the early 1990s. He then said that he did not mean literally, but he felt violated.
Donald Trump will say sometimes that he regretted Ivana to join him in business and blame him for revealing their marriage.
I think putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing,” he told ABC News in the early 90s. “If you are in business for yourself, I really think it’s a bad idea to make your wife work for you,” he said, complaining that when he turned into an entrepreneur, “Softness disappears.”
However, Ivana finally remained friendly with her ex -husband, whom he called “The Donald.” He enthusiastically supported the 2016 White House round, said he would “make big changes” in the United States, and told the New York Post that he gave him advice about his campaign.
We spoke before and after the appearance and he asked me what I thought,” he said. He said he advised him to “become calmer.”
But Donald can’t calm down, “he added. “He is very blunt. He just said it.”
But supporting, he occasionally ruffled fur.
In 2017, while promoting his book, he told “Good Morning America” that he talked to the president at that time every two weeks and had a direct white building number, but did not want to call too often because the first woman at that time was the presence of Melania Trump .
I don’t want to cause jealousy or something because basically I was the first time Trump’s wife, okay?” Said Ivana while laughing. “I’m the first lady, okay?”
Melania Trump’s spokesman at that time responded, said “Obviously there is no substance in this statement from the ex, unfortunately this is only noise that seeks attention and selfishness.”
Ivana Trump has continued his business in recent years, promoting the Italian weight loss diet plan in 2018.
Health is the most important thing we have. Let’s maintain it like that, “he said at the time.
His death occurred for a week that was crowded for the Trump family. Two of his children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, and the former president will appear in the coming days to be interrogated in the Civil Investigation Attorney General New York on family business practices.
Ivana Trump was born Ivana Zelnickova in 1949 in the city of Gottwaldov Czechoslowak, previously Zlin, who had just been replaced by Communists who took over the country in 1948.
He was married four times, the most recent with Italian actor Rossano Rubicondi. Both divorced in 2009 after one year of marriage but continued to meet each other and in 2019, when he told the New York Post that the relationship had been running. He died last year from cancer at the age of 49.