The life of Ivana Trump reads like the plot of a particularly colorful Jackie Collins novel. Who could be a better protagonist for an 80s bonkbuster than a beautiful, big-haired champion skier from a difficult background? Especially one who catches the eye of a billionaire New York playboy and inspires him to change his ways and settle down.
Although in this case the not-so-long-happy marriage to Donald Trump has fascinated the world rather than the relatively brief courtship.
In death, as in life, Ivana’s public personality is inseparable from her ex-husband – the news she had died of cardiac arrest Age 73 was born on Thursday by the former president who, banned from Twitter and Facebook, posted it on his own social media platform, Truth Social. In true Donald Trump fashion, there were even reports that he included a donation link to his campaign in the subsequent email sent to her in her memory.
While the focus on the Trumps has never been more outrageous than during Donald’s time in the White House, the no-nonsense Ivana with bouffant hair, shoulder pads and no-nonsense will always be associated with the hedonistic Manhattan of the 1980s. She never became First Lady, but made a point of calling herself the “first Trump lady.” Married to Donald from 1977 to 1992 and mother of his three oldest children, Donald Jr, Ivanka, and Eric, Ivana and her husband soon became a synonym for success in money-obsessed New York.