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| Ivana Trump| First Wife of Donald Trump |
Ivana Trump, a Czech immigrant who was Donald Trump's first wife and the mother of his three eldest children during his rise to celebrity as a celebrity and real estate investor in the 1980s, died on July 14 at her Manhattan home. She was 73 years old.
In a post on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded, the former president announced her death.
Mrs. Trump was discovered unconscious on a staircase in her East 64th Street home near Central Park after police responded to an emergency call at 12:40 p.m., and she was pronounced dead at the scene, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the situation. Detectives from the New York Police Department began an investigation and discovered no evidence of forced entry or obvious trauma indicating criminality.
According to officials, the New York City medical examiner's office will investigate whether a fall down a flight of stairs contributed to her death.
Mrs. Trump, who referred to her husband as "the Donald" during their 13-year marriage, was a competitive skier in her native Czechoslovakia before becoming a model in Canada and New York. Accounts differ as to how they met, but she noted in her 1995 memoir, "The Best Is Yet to Come," that he "wasn't famous" or "fabulously wealthy" at the time.
Mrs. Trump recalled in her 2017 memoir, "Raising Trump," that they visited a ski chalet in Aspen, Colo., at one point during their courtship.
"It was a very sexy chalet," she described it. "I knew Donald had chosen it for my advantage. I'm a realist with a romantic streak who can see the moon and the stars. If the moon was sitting on Donald's chest, he wouldn't see it."
Regardless, their engagement was marked by a three-carat Tiffany diamond ring and a prenuptial agreement. Ivana objected to a clause requiring her to return any gifts from her husband if the marriage ended.
She was eventually allowed to keep any clothing or gifts she received. Roy Cohn, Donald Trump's longtime attorney and mentor, drafted at least four contracts before the final agreement was signed.
After Donald and Ivana Trump married on April 7, 1977, they quickly became one of New York's most famous power couples, with a social profile that grew alongside the Trump business empire. They had three children by 1984: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump.
Mrs. Trump was involved in her husband's businesses throughout their marriage, even when their children were toddlers. She joined the Trump organisation in 1979 as a vice president in charge of decorating the interiors of some of her husband's properties.
Donald Trump purchased a mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1984, followed a year later by the $10 million purchase of the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
During the construction of Trump Tower, Donald Trump asked his architect to design a second apartment for his family in case his marriage failed. The Trumps moved into the new tower in 1984, occupying a three-story, 53-room penthouse with his-and-her bathrooms in dark brown marble for Donald Trump and translucent pink onyx for Ivana.
Mrs. Trump also decorated several other properties, including Atlantic City's Trump Plaza casino. She became president of New York's Plaza Hotel shortly after Donald Trump purchased it for more than $400 million in 1988. She was paid $1 per year plus all the haute couture clothing she desired, which reportedly cost up to $500,000 per year.
Mrs. Trump, by all accounts, played a key role in restoring the fading hotel to its former glory. Her flashy decorating style came to represent the extravagant sumptuousness found in many Trump properties.
In "Raising Trump," Mrs. Trump wrote, "if something could be leafed in gold or upholstered in damask, it was." "It was the 1980s, and my aesthetic was over-the-top glitz, glamour, and drama at the time."
Mrs. Trump confronted her husband about rumours she'd heard about his affair with a younger model, Marla Maples, during the family's Christmas vacation in Aspen in 1989. At lunch, she told a friend to spread the word that "I adore my husband."
Maples, who was standing nearby, overheard the conversation and said, "My name is Marla, and I adore your husband."
According to Mrs. Trump, she replied, "Get lost."
The marriage quickly fell apart, and the New York tabloids competed to unearth gruesome details about the divorce, culminating in a headline in the New York Post:
"Best Sex I've Ever Had," purportedly a quote from Maples. When editors questioned whether Maples had said those words, the paper's managing editor, Lou Colasuonno, said the headline was "libel-proof." Donald will never be unhappy with this one."
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