Ivana Trump has been buried in Manhattan. Family members and friends paid their last respects. Her first husband, former US President Donald Trump, also traveled, as did the three children from his marriage, Ivana Donald Junior, Eric and Ivana, and their partners and children. His third wife Melania also attended the funeral.
They gathered in New York at a funeral home on the Upper East Side, footage showed. From there, the coffin containing Ivana Trump’s body was taken to a church just a few blocks away, where numerous friends and acquaintances attended the funeral service. Both places had already been cordoned off by the New York police in the morning, numerous journalists and onlookers crowded the barriers in the sunshine and very high temperatures.
Ivana Trump – a “force of nature”
According to the New York Post, Eric Trump praised his mother, who died last Thursday at the age of 73, as “the embodiment of the American dream” and as a “force of nature”. Ivanka Trump described her mother as a “pioneer”.
Ivana Trump died last week in her home, also on the Upper East Side in Manhattan near Central Park, as a result of an accident, according to coroners. According to media reports, she fell down a flight of stairs.
Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Ivana Trump had worked as an athlete, businesswoman and model, among other things. She married real estate entrepreneur Trump in 1977. In the same year she gave birth to her first child, Donald Jr., followed by Ivanka in 1981 and Eric in 1984. During her marriage to Trump, Ivana also held senior positions in his company. In the ’80s, Donald and Ivana Trump were among New York’s most dazzling celebrity couples.
In the early 1990s, Ivana divorced the real estate entrepreneur after Trump’s affair with actress Marla Maples became public. Ivana is said to have received $20 million in compensation. She also built her own business designing clothes, jewelery and beauty products and wrote several books.
Source: Stern
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