31 Facts About Ivana Trump

Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech-American businesswoman, socialite, and model.

Ivana Trump lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977.

Ivana Trump held key managerial positions in the Trump Organization, as vice president of interior design, CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and manager of the Plaza Hotel.

Ivana and Donald Trump were prominent figures in New York society throughout the 1980s.

Ivana Trump wrote an advice column for Globe called "Ask Ivana" from 1995 through 2010, and published several books, including works of fiction, self-help, and the autobiography Raising Trump.

Ivana Trump's father was an electrical engineer and her mother worked as a telephone operator.

Ivana Trump's father encouraged his daughter's skiing abilities, a practice she began at age four.

Ivana Trump attended Charles University in Prague and earned a master's degree in physical education in 1972.

In 1970, Ivana Trump appeared on Czechoslovak Television in the children's television series Pan Tau.

In 1988, Ivana Trump told journalists that she was selected as an alternate on the Czechoslovak ski team during the 1972 Winter Olympics, specializing in downhill and slalom.

In 1971, Ivana Trump married Alfred Winklmayr, an Austrian ski instructor and her platonic friend, in order to obtain Austrian citizenship.

Ivana Trump was romantically involved with the lyricist and playwright Jiri Staidl who was killed in a car accident in 1973.

Ivana Trump claimed at the time to be married to Syrovatka, though the two never wed.

Ivana Trump worked as a ski instructor while living in Canada.

Ivana Trump lived in Montreal for two years where she continued to improve her English via night courses at McGill University.

Ivana Trump had to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of the divorce settlement, and she was required to seek Donald's permission before publicly discussing their marriage.

Ivana Trump led the interior design of Trump Tower with its signature pink marble.

When Donald Ivana Trump won in 2016, she turned down his offer to become the ambassador to her native Czech Republic.

The Ivana Trump-branded Bentley Bay development in Miami, Florida, filed for bankruptcy in 2004.

In 2010, she sued Finnish fashion company Ivana Trump Helsinki, accusing it of selling women's clothing that incorporated her name without permission.

Ivana Trump wrote several books, including For Love Alone, Free to Love, and a self-help book called The Best Is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life Again.

In February 1999, Ivana Trump launched her own lifestyle magazine titled Ivana Trump's Living in Style.

Ivana Trump contributed an advice column for Divorce Magazine in 2001.

In 2010, Ivana Trump appeared in UK television series, Celebrity Big Brother 7, which she placed 7th.

Ivana Trump became a naturalized United States citizen in 1988.

Ivana Trump married Italian entrepreneur and international businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli in November 1995.

Ivana Trump dated Italian actor and model Rossano Rubicondi for six years before they married on April 12,2008.

The marriage to Rubicondi, 36, was the fourth for Ivana Trump, who was 23 years his senior at the age of 59.

Ivana Trump stated she was fluent in Czech, English, German, French, and Russian.

In March 2023, it was revealed that Ivana Trump was investigated by the FBI's counterintelligence division into allegations connected to her native Czechoslovakia.

On July 14,2022, aged 73, Ivana Trump died of blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down stairs at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.