Ivana Trump was the first wife of President-elect Donald Trump. Born in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakiaโnow Zlรญn of the Czech Republicโin 1949, she rose to fame as a competitive skier. And, thanks to her marriage to Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr in 1971, Ivana was able to travel often outside of Czechoslovakia.
According to her book Raising Trump, the model met Donald three years after her 1973 divorce during a New York trip, where she’d traveled for a Canadian fashion show ahead of the Montreal Olympics. They wed in 1977 and welcomed three kids: Donald Trump Jr. born in 1977, Ivanka Trump born in 1981 and Eric Trump born in 1984.
The pair’s divorce was finalized in 1992 following his affair with Marla Maples, whom he later married.
However, Ivanaโwho then married Riccardo Mazzucchelli for two years followed by Rossano Rubicondi for less than a yearโand Donald remained on good terms.
โDonald during the divorce was brutal,โ she told ABC News in 2017. โHe took the divorce as a business deal, and he cannot lose. He has to win. So he took about two years. And after the final situation was straightened up, we would just talk and we are friends.โ
Ivana died in 2022 at age 73. According to NBC News, the New York City Medical Examiner said she died of โblunt impact injuriesโ and that her manner of death was an accident. A senior NYC official with direct knowledge added the circumstances were consistent with a fall on the stairs in her New York apartment.
