Ivana
Trump
was
the
first
wife
of
Former
President
Donald
Trump.
Born
in
Gottwaldov,
Czechoslovakia—now
Zlín
of
the
Czech
Republic—in
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,
Ivana—who
then
married
Riccardo
Mazzucchelli
for
two
years
followed
by
Rossano
Rubicondi
for
less
than
a
year—and
Donald
remained
on
good
terms.
“Donald
during
the
divorce
was
brutal,”
she
told
ABC
News
in
2017.
“He
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.”
Ivana
died
in
2022
at
age
73.
According
to
NBC
News,
the
New
York
City
Medical
Examiner
said
she
died
of
“blunt
impact
injuries”
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.
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