Ivana Trump - author and businesswoman Ivana Trump, the first wife of the US President
Donald Trump. Ivana was married to the President Trump from 1977 to 1992 and is mother to his
three eldest children: Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka.
Ivana lives in her Upper East Side townhouse
in New York City, which, incidentally, is just around the corner from Marla Maples home,
who famously had an affair with Donald while he was still married to his first wife.
She has a house in St. Tropez and a yacht in the Mediterranean for several years.
Ivana Trump is the former Vice President of
Interior Design for the Trump Organization, where she had supervised construction and
design of Trump Tower, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, and The Grand Hyatt
Hotel. Under her leadership, the Plaza Hotel was recognized as the “Best Luxury Hotel
in the United States.” She continues to produce products, fragrances, and accessories
under Ivana Haute Couture & Co., Inc. Ivana became spokesperson for two major real
estate ventures – Bentley Bay Condominium Complex in Miami and Ivana great Barrier Reef
Condominium and Resort Complex. Ivana has written two fiction books For Love
Alone and Free to Love and one non-fiction The Best Is Yet To Come. She has been portrayed
by ABC Biography Channel and Portraits by Lifetime.
In 2017, Ivana released an autobiography, Raising Trump, that covers her own upbringing
and the early years of raising her children with Donald Trump.
In 2017 Ivana Trump said she turned down an ambassadorship to the Czech Republic.
“Donald said, ‘Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you. But I like my freedom. I
like to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go with whomever I want to go,”
Ivana continued. “I can afford my lifestyle. Okay, why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami
in the winter, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in the summer, and bye-bye to spring and fall
in New York? I have a perfect life.”
Ivana has been married four times, but her
later two engagements were both to strapping young Italians. "I have this thing for Italians.
I don't know why, but the bad boys—not all of them, but the sort of semi-bad," she said
in 2013. And while she and her most recent husband,
Rossano Rubicondi separated in 2008, they are still romantically linked. "With Rossano,
we adore each other," she said. "Who knows what will happen? God gave us the second chance,
and we'll see."
Despite a nasty divorce, Ivana and Donald
are now friends. Some 20 years later the couple gets along,
and he even considers her as something of an adviser. "We have talked before and after
his appearances, he asked me what I thought," she said. She also thinks he should "be more
calm." Ivana Trump said she speaks to her former
husband about once every two weeks, and she has a "direct number" to the White House.
She fully supported her ex-husband's run for the White House.
"He's no politician. He's a businessman," she said. "He knows how to talk. He can give
an hour speech without notes... He's blunt," she said, adding that he would have "fantastic
advisers, like Carl Icahn. Really brilliant minds. And he'd make a decision! Obama cannot
make a decision if his life depends on it. It's ridiculous."
Ivana Trump has 3 children: Donald Jr., Eric
and Ivanka and 9 grandchildren. Ivana, who has recently written “Raising
Trump” about her life with her children and Donald Trump, said she kept her daughter
and two sons busy but made sure they were never spoiled.
She said the three are “fabulous.” “I’m very proud of them and Donald should
be too,” said Ivana Trump. Ivana said she could see both her daughter,
Ivanka Trump, and her son-in-law, Jared Kushner, becoming future presidents. They serve as
senior advisers in the Trump White House. "[The] only thing which I regret [is] that
Ivanka moved to Washington, so I don't see the grandkids that often, I don't see her
that often," she said. "But everything else they do, it's their destination, you know.
They do what they want to do and, like I said, they don't cheat, steal and lie and as long
as they do that, it's OK with me."
Ivana revealed that she has a "direct number"
to the White House, but that she does not call it often because of the commander-in-chief's
current wife. "I [don't] really want to call him there, because Melania is there and I
don't want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that, because I'm basically
first Trump wife," Ivana said. While she may not want to incite jealousy
with her phone calls, Ivana revealed that in fact she has a good relationship with Melania.
Ivana said "I get along with Melania."