For her final farewell, Ivana Trump was honored the way she lived her life. In style and surrounded by her family. Donald Trump’s former wife, mother of Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, died last week at 73. The former jet-set model was found dead after falling down the stairs of her Manhattan home. His funeral was held Wednesday at a historic church in this upscale neighborhood of New York. The “New York Post” reports that large flower arrangements made of roses were installed inside, as well as an enlarged copy of her cover in 1992 for “Vanity Fair” magazine, entitled “Ivana, be a star”. About 100 guests were present for this last goodbye, including Donald Trump, his wife Melania and their son Barron. Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump were obviously also there to pay their respects to their mother, whose body had been placed in a golden casket.
In his speech, Eric Trump described his mother as the perfect example of the American dream, “a mixture of Joan Rivers and Claudia Schiffer.” Former cross-country skier and model of Czech origin, Ivana Trump was the wife of the future President of the United States from 1977 to 1992. Ivanka, 40, also wanted to highlight the incredible life of her mother, “who growing up didn’t tell me what a woman could do, but she showed me.” “She was a trailblazer for both men and women. My mom once told me there was nothing she couldn’t do in heels. She taught us how to spear fish and then cook what we caught. My mother broadened our horizons,” she said with emotion. Not holding back tears, she humorously recalled being teased by her mother for ‘leaving a party in Saint-Tropez at 1 a.m.’ or being scolded for wearing clothes that were too modest , “My miniskirts weren’t mini enough,” she said, according to the “New York Times.” “Now she’s watching us from above, telling us to dry our tears, have a good time and dance one more song for her. Mom, I love you today, every day,” she concluded. Donald Trump, who was in the front row in the church, did not speak.
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If her children paid her beautiful tributes, one of her friends, Marc Bouwer, a designer who dressed her for many years, and who sat in the church, told the “New York Times” that she lived an increasingly solitary life. “She had been isolated. There was a lot of pain, a lot of sadness,” he said without giving further details. Dorothy Curry, the former nanny of Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric, gave a speech of about two minutes in which she also spoke about the isolation of her friend, with whom she had been close in the “spring and in the summer of his life” after which followed “an inevitable autumn and winter made of dying roses”, becoming “swamp in which one sinks”. “Ivana, we’ve contacted you so many times, but we obviously haven’t gone far enough. We’ve all basically let go and now you’re totally in God’s hands.”
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Ivana Trump was later laid to rest at Trump National Golf Club Cemetery in Bedminster, New Jersey. The former 80s icon was buried “not too far from the main clubhouse. They have a private lawn. It’s just a very discreet piece of granite engraved with his name,” a source told the New York Post.
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