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She was half of a publicity-hungry 1980s power couple who traded life behind the Iron Curtain for the glitz and glamor of New York and married a future US president.
Ivana Trump, who died Thursday at age 73 in her adopted hometown, grew up far from the bright lights of Manhattan’s Upper East Side in the Czech factory town of Zlin.
There she learned to ski from her father Milos and became a talented member of the country’s national youth ski team, although she was overlooked for the 1972 Winter Olympics.
Her first marriage came in 1971 to Austrian skier Alfred Winklmayr, and that union allowed her to leave communist Czechoslovakia and go to Canada, where she taught English in Toronto.
She then moved to Montreal where she began modeling, a career switch that would eventually take her to New York, where her path would cross with Donald Trump’s.
The businessman and model reportedly first met in 1976 at a bar in town called Maxwell’s Plum, and after a whirlwind romance, the couple tied the knot just nine months later in 1977.
It was Mr Trump’s first marriage and the couple had three children together, Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka and Eric.
In the 1980s, the couple became a fixture on the New York social scene, with Ivana serving as VP of interior design for the Trump Organization and assisting in projects such as Trump Tower and the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City in New Jersey.
When her husband bought the iconic 808-room Plaza Hotel in Manhattan for $400 million in 1988, she oversaw its renovation, with Mr. Trump paying her “$1 and all the dresses she can buy.”
But despite their fame and fortune, the couple’s relationship with Mr Trump who is linked to actress Marla Maples was on the rocks.
While Mr Trump inquired The New York PostMrs Trump gave her side of the scandal The New York Daily News.
“‘Ivana Better Deal’: Ms. T Calls Donald’s $25 Million Pre-Marriage Pact a Fraud,” wrote the Daily news in February 1990.
While the After went with front pages like, “Ivana vs. Donald at Secret Sitdown: Gimme the Plaza! … the jet and $150 million too.”
The After also had an infamous front page that read: “Marla brags to her friends about Donald: ‘Best *I’ve Ever Had'”
Mrs. Trump eventually won a reported $14 million, a mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, an apartment in Trump Plaza and the use of Mar-a-Lago in the divorce, which was finalized in 1992.
Mr. Trump then married Ms. Marples in 1993, with the couple having daughter Tiffany Trump together.
In the wake of her divorce, Ivana launched her own business empire, including the House of Ivana clothing line, and had two novels published with a ghostwriter. She also wrote a guide to divorce called The best has yet to come.
She met Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli, whom she married in November 1995, but they divorced in 1997 and she sued him for $15 million for violating a confidentiality agreement in their prenuptial agreement.
In 1997, she began dating Italian aristocrat Roffredo Lovatelli Gaetani, with whom she lived until his death in 2005.
She then dated Italian actor and model Rossano Rubicondi for six years before the couple tied the knot in April 2008 at a ceremony hosted by Mr. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The couple divorced a year later, but were in a relationship until 2019 and he died in 2021 at the age of 49.