>> Martha: THIS NEWS BREAKING
RIGHT NOW.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
SAYS HIS EX-WIFE AND THE MOTHER
OF HIS THREE OLDEST CHILDREN,
IVANA, HAS DIED.
THAT WAS POSTED ON TRUTH SOCIAL
JUST A SHORT TIME AGO.
HE SAID I’M 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
AMAZING WOMAN WHO LED A GREAT
LIFE.
HER PRIDE AND JOY WERE THREE
CHILDREN.
DONALD JR., IVANKA AND ERIC.
SHE WAS SO PROUD OF THEM AND
THEY WERE ALL SO PROUD OF HER.
REST IN PEACE IVANA WRITES THE
FORMER PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP.
IVANA TRUMP WAS BORN IN
CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
SHE WAS A MODELER, A COMPETITIVE
SKIER IN HER HOME COUNTRY IN
AUSTRIA.
SHE WAS BECAME A SKI INSTRUCTOR
AND MODELED AND MOVED TO
NEW YORK AND MET DONALD TRUMP IN
1977.
HE WAS HER SECOND HUSBAND AND
SHE WENT ON TO HAVE TWO OTHER
HUSBANDS AFTER THAT.
HERE’S IMAGES OF THEM.
GERALDO JOINS ME, CO HOST OF
"THE FIVE."
YOU ARE LEGENDARY MAN ABOUT TOWN
IN NEW YORK AS DONALD TRUMP WAS
AND AT THAT TIME AS WELL.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE PASSING OF
THIS WOMAN WHO THE COUNTRY GREW
TO KNOW QUITE A BIT ABOUT OVER
THE COURSE OF HER LIFETIME.
>> MARTHA, THIS IS STUNNING
NEWS.
TRAGIC NEWS.
SOPHISTICATED, ELEGANT.
YOU KNOW, VERY STRONG
PERSONALITY.
SHE REALLY, IF YOU SEE THAT
STRENGTH IN IVANKA, HER
DAUGHTER, YOU SEE WHERE SHE GOT
IT FROM.
IVANA WAS A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
SHE TOLERATED A LOT OF NONSENSE
OF WHICH YOU SPEAK FROM THE
1980s AND THE EARLY 90s WHEN
THEY DID BREAK UP IN 92, SHE WAS
A GUEST ON MY DAYTIME SHOW AS
WAS HER FORMER HUSBAND AT
VARIOUS TIMES.
THEY HAD AN EPIC DIVORCE BATTLE.
MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, DESPITE
ALL OF THE ODDS, THEY RAISED
THREE GREAT CHILDREN AND NEVER
REALLY TOLD TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
ABOUT THE OTHER.
THEY WERE LOYAL TILL THE END.
IT’S SHOCKING NEWS.
73 YEARS OLD.
HER APARTMENT ON THE UPPER EAST
SIDE OF NEW YORK APPARENTLY IS
WHERE SHE WENT INTO CARDIAC
ARREST.
THEY TRIED TO REVIVE HER, I’M
TOLD. OBVIOUSLY UNSUCCESSFULLY.
OBVIOUSLY UNSUCCESSFULLY.
BUT THIS IS A GUT PUNCH FOR
IVANKA, ERIC, DON JR.
THE WIFE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT
WAS VERY PUBLIC FIGURE, NOT
POLITICAL.
STYLISH, TREND-SETTING.
MORE THAN ANYTHING, SHE HAD A
QUIET -- THE CLASS AND ELEGANCE
OF WHICH I SPEAK, DESPITE ALL OF
THE PROVOCATION FROM HER THEN
PLAYBOY HUSBAND AND HIS
ESCAPADES.
IVANA WAS POISED, CLASSY AND A
GREAT MOM.
SHE TAUGHT THOSE KIDS THE
STRENGTH YOU SEE IN THE TRUMP
KIDS THAT COMES FROM THE MOM,
MOM AND DAD.
BUT SHE WAS A STEADY INFLUENCE
ON THEM.
THIS IS TERRIBLE NEWS.
REALLY SO YOUNG.
IT IS STAGGERING TO ME.
>> Martha: IT IS VERY SAD.
AND SHE OBVIOUSLY -- THE TWO OF
THEM WERE ONE OF THE GREAT POWER
COUPLES OF THE 80s.
SHE WENT ON DURING THEIR
MARRIAGE TO TAKE ON MAJOR ROLES
IN THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, WHICH
ALL OF HER CHILDREN WOULD DO AS
WELL.
IT WAS VERY MUCH A FAMILY
BUSINESS.
SHE WAS A SENIOR EXECUTIVE THERE
FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
SHE WAS THE MANAGER AT THE PLAZA
HOTEL IN MANHATTAN.
THEIR WORK AND THEIR LIVES WERE
VERY INTEGRATED.
SHE’S CREDITED -- ONE THING THAT
PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE FORMER
PRESIDENT, THEY ADMIRE THE WAY
THAT THEY RAISED THEIR FAMILY.
THE CHILDREN ARE CLOSE.
THEY ALL WORKED IN THE FAMILY
BUSINESS.
WE KNOW THAT IVANKA WENT ON TO
WORK ALONGSIDE HER FATHER AT THE
WHITE HOUSE.
THEY ALL REMAIN VERY CLOSE, VERY
UNITED.
THEY HAVE ALL STAYED VERY CLOSE
WITH THEIR MOTHER FROM
EVERYTHING THAT I’VE HEARD AND
COVERED OVER THE YEARS.
SHE DID GO ON TO MARRY TWO MORE
TIMES AFTER SHE AND DONALD
DIVORCED.
YOU KNOW, IT’S AN INTERESTING
TIME TO LOOK BACK ON.
IT REALLY WAS THE TIME WHEN HIS
BUSINESS WAS SORT OF BOOM AND
BUST, RIGHT?
SHE WAS WITH HIM THROUGH ALL OF
THAT.
>> HIS BUSINESS WAS A WILD
ROLLER COASTER.
THE CYCLONE ROSTER COASTER AT
CONEY ISLAND.
UP AND DOWN AND BROKE.
YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT.
THIS WAS A STRONG, SOLID
BUSINESS WOMAN A PROFESSIONAL
WOMAN AS WELL AS BEING BEAUTIFUL
AND ELEGANT AND SOPHISTICATED
AND ALL THE REST OF THAT.
SHE WAS MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY
FACE.
>> Martha: IVANA MARIE TRUMP WAS
MARRIED TO DONALD TRUMP AND HAS
PASSED AWAY IN NEW YORK CITY.
THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.