NEW YORK – The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office has announced the cause and manner of death of Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump.
Ivana Trump died on July 14 of blunt force injuries to the torso at her Manhattan home, authorities said Friday. The medical examiner officially ruled her death an accident.
“Having published this determination, the (Office of the Medical Examiner) will not comment further on the investigation,” the statement said.
Ivana Trump died this Thursday at her New York City apartment, as confirmed by the former president and his family.
“I am deeply saddened to inform everyone who loved her, which is many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York,” former President Trump said in a post on his social network. Truth Social.
“She was a wonderful, beautiful and spectacular woman who lived a great and inspiring life. Her greatest pride was her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. She was very proud of them, and we of her. May she rest in peace Ivana,” added the tycoon.
The 73-year-old former model and skier born in what is now the Czech Republic would have died of cardiorespiratory arrest, according to sources from NBC News.
“Our mother was an incredible woman, an imposing businesswoman, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and a loving mother and friend,” the Trump family said in a statement.
“Ivana Trump was a survivor. She fled communism and embraced this country. She taught her children strength, compassion, and determination,” the family added. “She will be missed by her mother, her three children and her 10 grandchildren,” she said.
Born on February 29, 1948 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, with the name Ivana Zelnickova, she married for the first time the Austrian Alfred Winklmayr, a childhood friend, to obtain Austrian citizenship and be able to leave her country of origin.
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Donald and Ivana Trump married in 1977 and were one of the most famous couples on the New York scene in the 1980s and 1990s before a public and headline-grabbing divorce in 1992 when Trump met his second wife, Marla Maples. .
In recent years, Ivana Trump had a good relationship with her ex-husband. In a book written in 2017, she said they spoke on the phone about once a week.
Ivana told the newspaper The New York Post in 2016 that she was a follower and adviser to the former president.
“I suggest some things,” he told that medium. “We talk before and after the events of him and he asks me what I thought,” she said.
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