Months before Ivana Trump's own death, Ivana was grieving the recent death of her last
husband, who died unexpectedly less than a year before she did.
The details are beyond tragic – here's everything you need to know about Ivana Trump's final marriage.
Everyone knows Ivana as the first wife of Donald Trump.
The couple's marriage lasted for 15 years, producing three children, and after their
1992 divorce, they would each go on to marry and divorce multiple times.
For the former president, he later married and divorced Marla Maples before tying the
knot with former first lady Melania Trump.
For Ivana's part, she was married (and divorced) prior to marrying Donald.
After she and Donald split, Ivana married yet again, once from 1995 to 1997, and then
for a fourth time, in 2008, to Rossano Rubicondi, an Italian actor and media personality 23
years her junior.
Tragically, Rubicondi died at age 49.
On paper, the marriage between Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi was brief — they exchanged
vows in 2008 and divorced a year later.
Even so, their relationship — which morphed from romantic to platonic and back again over
the years — had a much longer arc than a marriage license would suggest.
As the Daily Mail noted, the couple dated for six years before marrying in Palm Beach,
Florida, at none other than her ex-husband Donald Trump's current homestead, the Mar-a-Lago
private resort and golf club.
Even after Ivana and Rubicondi called it quits, they remained in each other's lives — even
going as far as to appear on the Italian version of the "Dancing With the Stars" franchise in 2018.
In fact, they wound up getting back together, but split again in 2019, per Page Six.
Still, it's clear they remained friends, as they were seen together as recently as July
2021, just months before Rubicondi's unexpected death in late October.
While no cause of death was immediately announced, the New York Post reported that Rubicondi
had been ill for at least a year, and that the likely cause of death was the skin cancer melanoma.
Days later, Rubicondo's father reportedly said that his death was caused by a burst
lung leading to a fall in a bathtub, resulting in an injury to his son's head while he was
alone at home.
Their marriage may not have been the longest of her four, but Ivana Trump struggled to
deal with the death of Rossano Rubicondi.
Sadly, he also turned out to have been Ivana's final husband, as the socialite died within
a year of the dashing Italian passing away.
Ivana was found dead at the bottom of the stairs at her East 46th Street Manhattan home
on July 14th.
A statement from the New York City medical examiner's office ruled that the 73-year-old's
death was caused by "blunt impact injuries of the torso" following an accidental fall.
Fellow socialite Nikki Haskell offered insight into her good friend's last year of life.
She explained that despite looking forward to an upcoming vacation to Saint Tropez, Ivana
had become reclusive in recent years, as she feared contracting COVID and grieved the death
of Rubicondi.
Haskell shared information during an interview with Fox 5 affiliate morning show, "Good Day
New York," the day after Ivana's death, claiming that Rubicondi's death months prior had been,
quote, "devastating for her."
"I think she took the death of her divorced husband, Rossano Rubicondi, quite hard."
Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi had enjoyed an untraditional marriage, spending extended
periods apart.
However, the stresses of a long-distance relationship soon became too much.
Ivana explained to Page Six after their split,
"Rossano wants to live in Miami and work in Milan.
But I am a New Yorker, and my family, friends, and businesses are here.
As the beautiful song says, 'Que será, será!'"
She elaborated to Page Six, quote, "The relationship just ran its course."
She said the break-up was "amicable," and they remained close friends.
When Rubicondi died in October 2021, Ivana told People that she was "devastated."
The Daily Mail ran photos of a "grief-stricken" Ivana looking "frail" as she was helped out
of a car on her way to attend her late husband's memorial service in November 2021.
The paper reported the couple was last spotted together strolling "arm in arm" in Manhattan
in July 2021, just three months before his death.
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