07-15-2022, 09:41 AM
Might have become our First Lady except for you-know-whose sexual hanky-panky.
Ivana Marie Trump (née Zelníčková, Czech: [ˈzɛlɲiːtʃkovaː]; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, fashion designer, author, and model. Trump was also the first wife of later U.S. president Donald Trump. She lived in Canada in the 1970s before immigrating to the United States, and held key managerial positions in The Trump Organization[1] as vice president of interior design, as CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and as manager of the Plaza Hotel.
Ivana and Donald were prominent figures in New York society throughout the 1980s. The couple's divorce, finalized in 1992, was the subject of extensive media coverage. Following the divorce, she developed her own lines of clothing, fashion jewelry, and beauty products which were sold on QVC London and the Home Shopping Network. Ivana wrote an advice column for Globe called "Ask Ivana" from 1995 through 2010 and published several books including works of fiction, self-help, and the autobiography Raising Trump.
Ivana Zelníčková was born on February 20, 1949, in the Moravian city of Zlín (known between 1949 and 1990 as Gottwaldov), Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Miloš Zelníček (1927–1990) and Marie Zelníčková (née Francová; born 1926).[2][3][4] Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother worked as a telephone operator.[5] Her father encouraged her skiing abilities, a practice she began at age four.[5][6] After developing skills as a skier, she joined the junior national ski team, which offered her opportunities to travel beyond the Soviet-era communist boundaries of what was then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.[5] She attended Charles University in Prague and earned a master's degree in physical education in 1972.[7][6] In 1970, Trump appeared on Czechoslovak Television in the children's television series Pan Tau.[8]
Accounts differ as to Trump's history of skiing competitively.[9] It was reported that she was selected as an alternate on the Czechoslovak ski team during the 1972 Winter Olympics, specializing in downhill and slalom.[10][6] However, in 1989, Petr Pomezný, Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee, denied the claim and stated that despite searching extensively, no record could be found of her involvement.[7]
In 1971, Zelníčková married Alfred Winklmayr, an Austrian ski instructor and her platonic friend, in order to obtain Austrian citizenship.[11][12] The marriage granted her the freedom to leave Czechoslovakia without defection so she could retain the right to return to visit her parents.[13][14][11][15] As Ivana Winklmayr, she received her Austrian passport in March 1972.[12] The following year, she obtained an absentee divorce from Alfred Winklmayr in Los Angeles, California, where he had moved to teach skiing.[13][14][12]
Zelníčková was romantically involved with the lyricist and playwright George (Jiři) Staidl who was killed in a car accident in 1973.[16] After Staidl's death, Zelníčková moved to Canada where she lived with George (Jiři) Syrovatka whom she had dated since 1967; Syrovatka had defected to Canada in 1971 and owned a ski boutique in Montreal.[13][14][15] Zelníčková worked as a ski instructor while living in Canada.[17] She lived in Montreal for two years where she continued to improve her English via night courses at McGill University.[15] Working as a model, Zelníčková told the Montreal Gazette in 1975 that she considered modeling to be a job, rather than a career.[18] Her modeling clients included Eaton's department store and the fashion designer Auckie Sanft, along with promotional work for the 1976 Summer Olympics that were being hosted in Montreal.[15]
Ivana was in New York City with a group of models in 1976 when she met Donald Trump.[15] On April 7, 1977, the couple married at Marble Collegiate Church in a wedding officiated by Norman Vincent Peale.[19][20][21][22] They became tabloid figures in New York society during the 1980s and worked together on several large projects, including the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the renovation of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, and the construction of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[23][24]
During the marriage, Ivana and Donald had three children: Donald Jr. (born 1977), Ivana Marie (born 1981), and Eric (born 1984). Donald Jr. learned to speak fluent Czech (with the help of his maternal grandfather), while Ivanka gained only a basic understanding of her mother's native tongue, and Eric was not exposed to the language since, by the time of his birth, his grandparents were comfortable using English.[25][26]
A reviewer of the 2018 Netflix documentary miniseries on Donald, Trump: An American Dream, described Ivana as a "charismatic workaholic, a career woman, an equal", and a life partner deliberately chosen by Trump to "work beside him and challenge him."[27]
The Trumps' troubled marriage became the subject of public interest over the Christmas holiday in 1989 when—on vacation in Aspen, Colorado—they were observed fighting after Ivana encountered Donald's mistress Marla Maples.[28] The Chicago Tribune reported that by February 1990, Donald had locked Ivana out of her office at the Plaza Hotel, and a legal battle ensued over the legitimacy of the four prenuptial agreements the pair had successively negotiated over the years.[28]
In October 1990, Ivana's 63-year-old father, Miloš Zelníček, died suddenly from a heart attack. According to The Guardian, her father was an informer for Czechoslovakia's Státní bezpečnost (StB) intelligence service who relayed information from his daughter, including a correct prediction that George H. W. Bush would win the 1988 presidential election.[29] Despite their marital troubles and pending divorce, Donald stood at her side at her father's funeral in Zlín[30] held in November 1990.[29]
The Trumps' divorce proceedings received worldwide publicity.[31] Front-page coverage appeared in New York tabloid newspapers for eleven days in a row, and the story was the subject of Liz Smith's entire news coverage for three months.[32] In a deposition relating to their divorce, Ivana accused Donald of rape and of pulling out handfuls of her hair.[33] In Harry Hurt III's book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, she confirmed that she had "felt violated". However, in a statement provided by Donald and his lawyers, she said that she had used the word "rape", but she did not "want [her] words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense."[34] The uncontested divorce was granted in December 1990 on the grounds of cruel and inhumane treatment by Donald.[31][35] Ivana had to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of the divorce settlement, and she was required to seek Donald's permission before publicly discussing their marriage.[34][36] The New York Times reported in 1991 that Ivana's divorce settlement included $14 million, a 45-room Connecticut mansion, an apartment in the Trump Plaza, and the use of Mar-a-Lago for one month a year.[35] The divorce was finalized in 1992.[33]
Trump married four times. Her first marriage, to Alfred Winklmayr, was for the goal of securing Austrian nationality, according to a biographer.[9] She was married to Donald from 1977 to 1992, and they had three children: Donald Jr. in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984.[61] She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1988.[62][63]
Trump married Italian entrepreneur and international businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli in November 1995.[64][65] They divorced in 1997.[66] That same year, she filed a $15 million breach of contract suit against Mazzucchelli for violating the confidentiality clause in their prenuptial agreement,[67] while Mazzucchelli sued Ivana and Donald in a British court for libel.[65] The suit was later settled under undisclosed terms.[66]
In the summer of 1997, she began dating Italian aristocrat Count Roffredo Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona Lovatelli.[68] The relationship continued until his death in 2005.[69]
Trump dated Italian actor and model Rossano Rubicondi for six years before they married on April 12, 2008.[70][71][72] The marriage to Rubicondi, 36, was the fourth for Ivana, then 59.[72] The couple's $3 million wedding for 400 guests was hosted by ex-husband Donald at Mar-a-Lago with daughter Ivanka as her maid of honor.[73] The wedding was officiated by Trump's ex-sister-in-law Judge Maryanne Trump Barry.[72] Although Ivana and Rubicondi divorced less than a year later, their on-again, off-again relationship continued until 2019, when Ivana announced they had once again "called it quits".[17][74] Rubicondi died on October 29, 2021, at the age of 49 reportedly from melanoma.[75][76]
Trump had ten grandchildren.[77] In the late 2010s, she reportedly split her time between New York City, Miami, and Saint-Tropez.[17] She stated she was fluent in German, French, Czech, and Russian.[1]
On July 14, 2022, at the age of 73, Ivana Trump died at her home in the New York city borough of Manhattan after being found unconscious and unresponsive at the bottom of a staircase.[78] Donald Trump, her ex-husband, posted on the Truth Social app:[79]
A number of politicians and celebrities posted condolences on social media, including former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani; political commentators Paris Dennard and Kayleigh McEnany; actress Alana Stewart; Florida House representative Byron Donalds; political analyist Sebastian Gorka; RNC Chairperson Ronna McDaniel; political advisor Stephen Miller; and photographer Harry Benson.[81]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Trump
Ivana Marie Trump (née Zelníčková, Czech: [ˈzɛlɲiːtʃkovaː]; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, fashion designer, author, and model. Trump was also the first wife of later U.S. president Donald Trump. She lived in Canada in the 1970s before immigrating to the United States, and held key managerial positions in The Trump Organization[1] as vice president of interior design, as CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and as manager of the Plaza Hotel.
Ivana and Donald were prominent figures in New York society throughout the 1980s. The couple's divorce, finalized in 1992, was the subject of extensive media coverage. Following the divorce, she developed her own lines of clothing, fashion jewelry, and beauty products which were sold on QVC London and the Home Shopping Network. Ivana wrote an advice column for Globe called "Ask Ivana" from 1995 through 2010 and published several books including works of fiction, self-help, and the autobiography Raising Trump.
Ivana Zelníčková was born on February 20, 1949, in the Moravian city of Zlín (known between 1949 and 1990 as Gottwaldov), Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Miloš Zelníček (1927–1990) and Marie Zelníčková (née Francová; born 1926).[2][3][4] Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother worked as a telephone operator.[5] Her father encouraged her skiing abilities, a practice she began at age four.[5][6] After developing skills as a skier, she joined the junior national ski team, which offered her opportunities to travel beyond the Soviet-era communist boundaries of what was then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.[5] She attended Charles University in Prague and earned a master's degree in physical education in 1972.[7][6] In 1970, Trump appeared on Czechoslovak Television in the children's television series Pan Tau.[8]
Accounts differ as to Trump's history of skiing competitively.[9] It was reported that she was selected as an alternate on the Czechoslovak ski team during the 1972 Winter Olympics, specializing in downhill and slalom.[10][6] However, in 1989, Petr Pomezný, Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee, denied the claim and stated that despite searching extensively, no record could be found of her involvement.[7]
In 1971, Zelníčková married Alfred Winklmayr, an Austrian ski instructor and her platonic friend, in order to obtain Austrian citizenship.[11][12] The marriage granted her the freedom to leave Czechoslovakia without defection so she could retain the right to return to visit her parents.[13][14][11][15] As Ivana Winklmayr, she received her Austrian passport in March 1972.[12] The following year, she obtained an absentee divorce from Alfred Winklmayr in Los Angeles, California, where he had moved to teach skiing.[13][14][12]
Zelníčková was romantically involved with the lyricist and playwright George (Jiři) Staidl who was killed in a car accident in 1973.[16] After Staidl's death, Zelníčková moved to Canada where she lived with George (Jiři) Syrovatka whom she had dated since 1967; Syrovatka had defected to Canada in 1971 and owned a ski boutique in Montreal.[13][14][15] Zelníčková worked as a ski instructor while living in Canada.[17] She lived in Montreal for two years where she continued to improve her English via night courses at McGill University.[15] Working as a model, Zelníčková told the Montreal Gazette in 1975 that she considered modeling to be a job, rather than a career.[18] Her modeling clients included Eaton's department store and the fashion designer Auckie Sanft, along with promotional work for the 1976 Summer Olympics that were being hosted in Montreal.[15]
Ivana was in New York City with a group of models in 1976 when she met Donald Trump.[15] On April 7, 1977, the couple married at Marble Collegiate Church in a wedding officiated by Norman Vincent Peale.[19][20][21][22] They became tabloid figures in New York society during the 1980s and worked together on several large projects, including the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the renovation of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, and the construction of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[23][24]
During the marriage, Ivana and Donald had three children: Donald Jr. (born 1977), Ivana Marie (born 1981), and Eric (born 1984). Donald Jr. learned to speak fluent Czech (with the help of his maternal grandfather), while Ivanka gained only a basic understanding of her mother's native tongue, and Eric was not exposed to the language since, by the time of his birth, his grandparents were comfortable using English.[25][26]
A reviewer of the 2018 Netflix documentary miniseries on Donald, Trump: An American Dream, described Ivana as a "charismatic workaholic, a career woman, an equal", and a life partner deliberately chosen by Trump to "work beside him and challenge him."[27]
The Trumps' troubled marriage became the subject of public interest over the Christmas holiday in 1989 when—on vacation in Aspen, Colorado—they were observed fighting after Ivana encountered Donald's mistress Marla Maples.[28] The Chicago Tribune reported that by February 1990, Donald had locked Ivana out of her office at the Plaza Hotel, and a legal battle ensued over the legitimacy of the four prenuptial agreements the pair had successively negotiated over the years.[28]
In October 1990, Ivana's 63-year-old father, Miloš Zelníček, died suddenly from a heart attack. According to The Guardian, her father was an informer for Czechoslovakia's Státní bezpečnost (StB) intelligence service who relayed information from his daughter, including a correct prediction that George H. W. Bush would win the 1988 presidential election.[29] Despite their marital troubles and pending divorce, Donald stood at her side at her father's funeral in Zlín[30] held in November 1990.[29]
The Trumps' divorce proceedings received worldwide publicity.[31] Front-page coverage appeared in New York tabloid newspapers for eleven days in a row, and the story was the subject of Liz Smith's entire news coverage for three months.[32] In a deposition relating to their divorce, Ivana accused Donald of rape and of pulling out handfuls of her hair.[33] In Harry Hurt III's book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, she confirmed that she had "felt violated". However, in a statement provided by Donald and his lawyers, she said that she had used the word "rape", but she did not "want [her] words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense."[34] The uncontested divorce was granted in December 1990 on the grounds of cruel and inhumane treatment by Donald.[31][35] Ivana had to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of the divorce settlement, and she was required to seek Donald's permission before publicly discussing their marriage.[34][36] The New York Times reported in 1991 that Ivana's divorce settlement included $14 million, a 45-room Connecticut mansion, an apartment in the Trump Plaza, and the use of Mar-a-Lago for one month a year.[35] The divorce was finalized in 1992.[33]
Trump married four times. Her first marriage, to Alfred Winklmayr, was for the goal of securing Austrian nationality, according to a biographer.[9] She was married to Donald from 1977 to 1992, and they had three children: Donald Jr. in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984.[61] She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1988.[62][63]
Trump married Italian entrepreneur and international businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli in November 1995.[64][65] They divorced in 1997.[66] That same year, she filed a $15 million breach of contract suit against Mazzucchelli for violating the confidentiality clause in their prenuptial agreement,[67] while Mazzucchelli sued Ivana and Donald in a British court for libel.[65] The suit was later settled under undisclosed terms.[66]
In the summer of 1997, she began dating Italian aristocrat Count Roffredo Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona Lovatelli.[68] The relationship continued until his death in 2005.[69]
Trump dated Italian actor and model Rossano Rubicondi for six years before they married on April 12, 2008.[70][71][72] The marriage to Rubicondi, 36, was the fourth for Ivana, then 59.[72] The couple's $3 million wedding for 400 guests was hosted by ex-husband Donald at Mar-a-Lago with daughter Ivanka as her maid of honor.[73] The wedding was officiated by Trump's ex-sister-in-law Judge Maryanne Trump Barry.[72] Although Ivana and Rubicondi divorced less than a year later, their on-again, off-again relationship continued until 2019, when Ivana announced they had once again "called it quits".[17][74] Rubicondi died on October 29, 2021, at the age of 49 reportedly from melanoma.[75][76]
Trump had ten grandchildren.[77] In the late 2010s, she reportedly split her time between New York City, Miami, and Saint-Tropez.[17] She stated she was fluent in German, French, Czech, and Russian.[1]
On July 14, 2022, at the age of 73, Ivana Trump died at her home in the New York city borough of Manhattan after being found unconscious and unresponsive at the bottom of a staircase.[78] Donald Trump, her ex-husband, posted on the Truth Social app:[79]
Quote:"I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City. She was a wonderful, beautiful and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest in peace, Ivana!"[80]
A number of politicians and celebrities posted condolences on social media, including former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani; political commentators Paris Dennard and Kayleigh McEnany; actress Alana Stewart; Florida House representative Byron Donalds; political analyist Sebastian Gorka; RNC Chairperson Ronna McDaniel; political advisor Stephen Miller; and photographer Harry Benson.[81]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Trump
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