Ivana Trump was the first wife of President-elect Donald Trump. Born in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia – now Zlín in the Czech Republic – in 1949, she rose to fame as a competitive racer. And thanks to her marriage to an Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr In 1971, Ivana was able to travel often outside of Czechoslovakia.
According to her book Elevating Trumpmet model Donald three years after their divorce in 1973 during a trip to New York, where she had traveled for a Canadian fashion show ahead of the Montreal Olympics. They married in 1977 and welcomed three children: Donald Trump Jr. born in 1977, Ivanka Trump born in 1981 and Eric Trump born in 1984.
The couple’s divorce was finalized in 1992 following his affair with Marla Mapleswhom he later married.
But Ivana – who then got married Riccardo Mazzucchelli for two years followed by Rossano Rubicondi for less than a year — and Donald remained on good terms.
“Donald during the divorce was brutal,” she told ABC News in 2017. “He took the divorce as a business deal, and he can’t lose. He has to win. So he took about two years. And after the final situation was fixed, we were just talking and we are friends.”
Ivana died in 2022 at age 73. According to NBC Newsthe New York City Medical Examiner said she died of “blunt impact injuries” and that her manner of killing was an accident. A senior NYC official with direct knowledge added that the circumstances were consistent with a fall on the stairs of her New York apartment.
