Ivana Marie Trump was Donald Trump’s first wife. A Czech-American, Ivana Marie Trump lived in Canada in the 1970s and later moved to the US where she met Donald Trump in 1976 with a group of models, and the following year Donald and Ivana got married. Recalling her first meeting with Donald Trump, she wrote in her autobiography ‘Raising Trump’, “We made polite small talk, no funny stuff at all. He sensed correctly that flirting would not work with me and acted like a gentleman.”
Ivana Trump was a fashion model, socialite, and businesswoman and over the years, she held key managerial positions at The Trump Organization. Donald Trump and Ivana were married from 1977 to 1990, and the power-couple were prominent tabloid figures in the 1980s in New York society. During their 15 years of marriage, Donald Trump and Ivana had three children together– Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. But over a decade of being together, their marriage ended abruptly when Ivana came to know about Donald Trump’s affair with model Marla Maples. Donald and Ivana Trump’s divorce in 1990 was big news back then and it was extensively covered in tabloids. After her divorce, she turned to having her own lines of fashion and beauty products, writing advice columns, and books. Ivana died at her home in New York City at age the age 73 in 2022.
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