Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump is an American businesswoman and the first daughter of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
75 Facts About Ivanka Trump
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Ivanka Trump was a senior advisor in his administration, and was the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.
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Ivanka Trump is the daughter of Trump's first wife, Ivana, and is the first Jewish member of an American first family, having converted before marrying her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner.
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Ivanka Trump was an executive vice president of the family-owned Trump Organization.
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Ivanka Trump was a boardroom judge on her father's TV show, The Apprentice.
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Ivanka Trump was considered part of the president's inner circle even before becoming an official employee in his administration.
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Ivanka Trump was born on October 30,1981, in Manhattan, New York City, as the second child and first daughter of Czech-American model and professional skier Ivana and Donald Ivanka Trump.
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Ivanka Trump's parents divorced in 1990 when she was nine years old.
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Ivanka Trump attended Christ Church and the Chapin School in Manhattan until age 15 when she switched to Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.
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When Ivanka Trump was attending boarding school as a teenager, she began modeling "on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year," according to her late mother, Ivana.
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Ivanka Trump was the first Jewish member of a first family, having converted before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner, in 2009.
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Ivanka Trump participated in Trump and Trump-branded projects, including deal evaluation, pre-development planning, financing, design, construction, sales, and marketing.
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Ivanka Trump's portfolio included Trump Hotels' highly acclaimed properties in New York, both on Central Park and in SoHo, Chicago, Las Vegas, Waikiki Beach, Panama, Toronto, Miami, Washington, DC, Rio de Janeiro, and Vancouver.
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In February 2012, Ivanka Trump led the Request for Proposal with the GSA, resulting in the final selection of The Ivanka Trump Organization to develop the historic Old Post Office.
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Ivanka Trump then oversaw the $200-million conversion of the historic building into a luxury hotel, which opened in 2016.
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Ivanka Trump spearheaded this acquisition and oversaw the $250 million renovations of the 800-acre property.
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Ivanka Trump was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007.
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In 2007, Ivanka Trump formed a partnership with Dynamic Diamond Corp.
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Ivanka Trump closed down the company and separated herself from her business affiliations at the Ivanka Trump Organization after she moved to DC to serve as a senior advisor in her father's White House.
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Ivanka Trump had her own line of Ivanka Trump fashion items, which included clothes, handbags, shoes, and accessories, available in US and Canadian department stores including Macy's and Hudson's Bay.
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In 2017, Aquazzura Italia SRL sued Ivanka Trump, accusing her business of stealing their designs, and the suit was settled.
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Ivanka Trump's brand was criticized by PETA and other animal rights activists for using rabbit fur.
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Between March and July 2016, Ivanka Trump applied for 36 trademarks in China.
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On July 24,2018, Ivanka Trump announced that she shut down her company after deciding to pursue a career in public policy instead of returning to her fashion business.
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In 2006, Ivanka Trump filled in for Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of the fifth season of her father's television program The Apprentice, first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2.
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Ivanka Trump collaborated with season 5 winner Sean Yazbeck on his winner's project of choice, Ivanka Trump SoHo Hotel-Condominium.
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Ivanka Trump replaced Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the sixth season of The Apprentice and its follow-up iteration, Celebrity Apprentice.
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In 1997, at the age of 15, Ivanka Trump co-hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant, which was partially owned by her father, Donald Ivanka Trump, from 1996 to 2005.
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In 2006, Ivanka Trump was a guest judge on Project Runway's third season, alongside Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia, and Vera Wang.
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Ivanka Trump reappeared as a guest judge on season 4 of Project Runway All-Stars in 2014 and 2015, alongside host Alyssa Milano, judges Georgina Chapman and Isaac Mizrahi, and guest judges Betsey Johnson, Michael Bastian, Elie Tahari, Nina Garcia, and Zac Posen.
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When Ivanka Trump was attending boarding school as a teenager, she began modeling "on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year," according to her late mother, Ivana Ivanka Trump.
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Ivanka Trump was featured in advertisements for Tommy Hilfiger, Elle, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Thierry Mugler, Ivanka Trump engaged in fashion runway work.
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Ivanka Trump has been profiled in many women's fashion magazines, including Vogue, Glamour, Marie Claire, and Elle.
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Ivanka Trump was featured in Vanity Fairs annual International Best Dressed List in 2007 and 2008.
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Ivanka Trump donated $200,000 in royalties to the National Urban League and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
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Ivanka Trump funded a Women's Entrepreneur Center at the National Urban League in Baltimore, Maryland, after visiting the facility with Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League.
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In 2015, Ivanka Trump introduced her father, Donald J Trump, at Trump Tower as he announced his candidacy for president of the United States.
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Ivanka Trump was involved with the campaign by making public appearances to support and defend him.
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In January 2016, Ivanka Trump was featured in a radio ad that aired in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, in which she praised her father.
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Ivanka Trump appeared by his side following the results of early voting states in 2016, in particular briefly speaking in South Carolina.
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Ivanka Trump was not able to vote in the New York primary in April 2016 because she had missed the October 2015 deadline to change her registration to Republican.
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Ivanka Trump introduced her father in a speech immediately before his own speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention in July.
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An earlier Post article had questioned whether the policy positions Ivanka Trump espoused were closer to those of Hillary Clinton than to those of her father.
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In January 2017, artist Richard Prince returned a $36,000 payment he received for a work featuring Ivanka Trump and disavowed its creation.
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On Friday, January 20,2017, she attended the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, at the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC Ivanka Trump partly negotiated rates of hotel rooms, rental spaces, and meals at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, on which her father's inaugural committee spent funds it privately raised, WNYC and ProPublica reported in December 2018.
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In January 2017, Ivanka Trump resigned from her position at the Ivanka Trump Organization.
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Ivanka Trump became the head of the newly established Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.
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Nixon's daughter was one of the most vocal defenders of his administration, and Ivanka Trump defended President Trump and his administration against a myriad of allegations.
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In late April 2017, Ivanka Trump hired Julie Radford as her chief of staff.
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In July 2017, Ivanka Trump attended the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, with President Ivanka Trump and the United States delegation.
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Ivanka Trump launched We-Fi, a United States-led billion-dollar World Bank initiative to advance women's entrepreneurship.
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Anu Acharya, the founder of a medical diagnosis company, said: "What mattered to me is that she has been an entrepreneur, and she is an adviser to the president of the US" Shveta Raina, who runs Talerang, a startup that prepares Indian college graduates for the workplace, said Ivanka Trump exceeded her expectations.
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Ivanka Trump led the United States presidential delegation to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games closing ceremony in February 2018.
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Ivanka Trump dined with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at his residence, the Blue House, following the closing ceremony, where she received a second invitation to South Korea in order to further ties between Seoul and Washington.
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On June 30,2019, Ivanka Trump participated in talks between her father and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inside the Korean peninsula's demilitarized zone.
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Ivanka Trump went in a worldwide tour in 2019 to promote her "Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative", in which she traveled to Ethiopia and Ivory Coast, in sub-Saharan Africa, in April; and to Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay, in South America, in September; and to Morocco, in northern Africa, in November.
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Ivanka Trump attended the 74th United Nations General Assembly to promote her initiative.
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In June 2020, Ivanka Trump was credited with proposing the controversial photo opportunity for President Donald Ivanka Trump holding a bible in front of St John's Church, which required violently clearing peaceful protesters.
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Ivanka Trump walked with her father to the site and carried the bible in her Max Mara purse.
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In July 2020, Ivanka Trump tweeted a picture of herself with a Goya Foods bean can, endorsing the product.
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The owner of Goya Foods had days prior praised President Ivanka Trump, leading to a backlash against the company.
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Ivanka Trump's tweet raised ethics concerns, given that Ivanka Trump is an official adviser in the White House, and employees in public office are not permitted to endorse products.
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On January 6,2021, Ivanka Trump refused to address the rally at the Ellipse but was in attendance.
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In June 2022, Ivanka Trump told the panel of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that she does not believe the election was stolen and accepted William Barr's conclusion that voter fraud claims have "zero basis".
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In 2007, Ivanka Trump donated $1,000 to the presidential campaign of then-Senator Hillary Clinton.
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In 2010, Ivanka Trump cofounded Girl Up with the United Nations Foundation.
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In November 2019, Ivanka Trump's father was ordered to pay a $2 million settlement for misusing the foundation for his business and political purposes.
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Ivanka Trump has ties to a number of Jewish charities, including Chai Lifeline, a charity which helps to look after children with cancer.
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Ivanka Trump further said that any royalties exceeding the advances would be given to charity.
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Ivanka Trump has a close relationship with her father, who has publicly expressed his admiration for her on several occasions.
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Ivanka Trump has likewise praised her father, complimenting his leadership skills and saying he empowers other people.
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Sarah Ellison, writing for Vanity Fair in 2018, indicated Ivanka Trump was the family member that "everyone in the family seems to acknowledge" is her father's "favorite" child.
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Ivanka Trump has an estimated net worth of $300 million.
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In college, Ivanka Trump was in a nearly four-year relationship with Greg Hersch.
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Ivanka Trump visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in western Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem during the trip.