
In his book, Trump: The Art of the Deal, the reality-star-turned-politician called Ivana a “great manager,” describing her as “demanding and very competitive.” While she and Donald were married, Ivana took on key roles in some of the Trump businesses, including running Trump’s Castle in Atlantic City as CEO. It was always clear to us that we were her priority, but that doesn’t mean we got her 24 hours a day.” “My mother is my inspiration,” Ivanka, also a mom of three, told People in 2016. They married nine months later, and eventually welcomed three children together: elder son Donald Jr., only daughter Ivanka, and younger son Eric. Her stint in the modeling industry led her to meeting Donald while on a shoot in New York City in 1976. When they split two years later, Ivana moved to Montreal, where she modeled. “You have to count only on Ivana.”Īfter graduating from Charles University in Prague with a master’s in physical education, Ivana married Austrian skier Alfred Winklmayr to get a western passport, People previously reported.

“When you are going down a mountain at 80 miles an hour, you cannot count on Mama or Papa,” she previously told People. Ivana skied competitively as a child and was a member of the national ski team, and the sport provided the metaphor that ruled her life. Below is an obituary courtesy of People.īorn Ivana Marie Zelníčková in Zlin, a factory town in then-Communist Czechoslovakia, she was the only child of Marie, a telephone operator, and Milos, an engineer who died in 1990. Trump – she was a savvy businesswoman, an athlete, a writer, a multifaceted clothing and jewelry designer, and above all, a proud mother adored by her children.

Though her high-profile marriage to the former president catapulted her into the limelight in the late ’70s, Ivana was much more than just Mrs. The cause of her death was an accident probably due to injuries suffered in a fall. Ivana Trump, ex-wife of Donald Trump, died Thursday afternoon.
