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Undated: Ivana Marie Trump (née
Zelníčková; Czech:
[ˈzɛlɲiːtʃkovaː],
born February 20, 1949) is a Czech former model and businesswoman, who was the
first wife of
Donald
Trump. They married in 1977 and divorced in 1992. They have three children
together,
Donald Trump Jr.,
Ivanka
Trump, and
Eric Trump.
In 1971, Zelníčková married Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winkelmayr to enable
her to leave Communist Czechoslovakia.[5][6][7]
She received her Austrian passport in March 1972 and left for Canada in
September 1972.[8]
The marriage was formally dissolved in 1973.[5][7][8]
In Canada she lived with her boyfriend George (Jiři) Syrovatka whom she had been
dating since 1967 and who had emigrated to Canada in 1972 and owned a ski
boutique in Montreal.[1][5][7]
For the following two years, she lived in Montreal, improved her English by
taking night courses at
McGill University,[citation
needed] and worked as a model.[1][7]
Her modeling jobs included promoting the
1976 Summer Olympics that were being hosted in
Montreal.[1][7]
In this capacity Zelníčková was in
New
York City with a group of models in 1976 where she met
Donald
Trump.[7]
They were married in 1977 in a lavish wedding officiated by
Norman Vincent Peale.[9]
Donald and Ivana Trump became leading figures in New York society during the
1980s. They worked on several large projects, including the renovation of the
Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, construction of the
Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the
Trump Tower on
Fifth
Avenue in Manhattan.[10][11]
They had three children:
Donald Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977),
Ivanka
Trump (born October 30, 1981), and
Eric Trump
(born January 6, 1984). Donald Jr. learned to speak fluent Czech (with help of
his maternal grandfather), while daughter Ivanka has only basic understanding of
her mother's native tongue and Eric was not exposed to the language because at
the time of his birth his grandparents were already comfortable enough in using
English.[12][13]
Ivana has nine grandchildren.[14]
Ivana took a major role in
The Trump Organization. She became the Vice President of Interior Design for
the company, leading the signature design of Trump Tower. Afterwards, her
then-husband appointed her to head up the
Trump Castle Hotel and Casino as president. She became a naturalized U.S.
citizen in 1988.[15]
In October 1990, Ivana Trump's 63-year-old father died suddenly from a
heart attack. According to
The
Guardian, her father - Miloš Zelníček - was an informer for Czechoslovakia's
Státní bezpečnost (StB)
intelligence service and relayed information from Ivana Trump, including a
prediction that
George HW Bush would win the
1988 presidential election.[16]
Ivana stood side-by-side with her husband Donald at the funeral in
Zlín.[17]
Jaroslav Jansa, codename "Jarda" and secret collaborator to the
StB also attended the funeral.[16]
That Christmas, when the family was on vacation in
Aspen, Colorado, Ivana Trump encountered
Marla
Maples on the ski slopes.[18]
The Trumps' divorce proceedings appeared on New York tabloid newspapers' covers
for 11 days in a row, and
Liz Smith wrote about nothing else for three months.[19]
Their divorce, in a deposition for which she accused him of rape and of pulling
out handfuls of her hair, was settled in 1991. However, in 2018, in a TV
interview on Good Morning Britain she stated that Donald Trump never touched her
badly and that it was in fact the lawyers who had suggested to make these false
accusations. A condition of settlement was that she not talk about their
marriage without his permission.[20]
The divorce was finalized in 1992.[21][22]
In 1995, she married Riccardo Mazzucchelli.[23]
She filed a $15 million breach of contract suit against Mazzucchelli for
violating the confidentiality clause in their prenuptial agreement.[24]
In 1997, Mazzucchelli sued Ivana and Donald for libel.[25]
In the summer of 1997, she began dating Roffredo Gaetani; that continued until
his death in 2005.[26]
In April 2008, Ivana, then 59, married Rossano Rubicondi, then 36.[27]
The $3 million wedding for 400 guests was hosted by ex-husband Donald Trump at
his Mar-a-Lago
estate. Daughter Ivanka Trump was her maid of honor.[28]
On December 1, 2008, Ivana confirmed to the
Associated Press that she had filed a legal separation agreement three
months previously; she has stated in interviews that she and her husband have an
on-again/off-again relationship. In December 2009, she said she had filed
for divorce from Rubicondi;[29]
the couple has continued to be seen together as recently as May 5, 2018.[30]
Soon after her divorce from Donald Trump in 1992, she developed lines of
clothing, fashion jewelry and beauty products that have been sold through
television shopping channels.
In 2005, Trump was involved in several proposed condominium projects that
ultimately failed, including the never-built
Ivana Las Vegas, and the Bentley Bay in Miami, Florida.[31][32]
In 2010, she sued the Finnish fashion company,
Ivana Helsinki, accusing it of selling women's clothing that incorporates
her name without permission.[33]
She has written several novels, including, For Love Alone (1992), Free
to Love (1993) and a
self-help
book called, The Best is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life
Again (1995).
In June 1995, she began writing an advice column for
Globe, titled Ask Ivana, about love and life.[34]
In 1998, she bought 33% of Croatia's second-largest daily newspaper - with a
circulation of 100,000 - she used to travel with her parents from the Czech
Republic to Croatia on vacation.[35][36]
In February 1999, she launched her own lifestyle magazine titled Ivana's
Living in Style.[37]
In 2001, she contributed an advice column for
Divorce magazine.[38]
In January 2010, Trump ended her advice column in
Globe to
pursue other business interests.[39]
In 2017, she released an autobiography,
Raising Trump, that covers her own upbringing and the early years of
raising her children with
Donald
Trump.[40]
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