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NOS News•yesterday, 22:55
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Former model and businesswoman Ivana Trump has died aged 73. Her former husband, former US President Trump, reports this.
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“I am saddened to announce to everyone who loved her, and there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York,” the former president wrote on the social medium Truth Social, which he founded. “She was a beautiful and wonderful woman who lived an inspiring life.”
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A professional skier in Czechoslovakia, Ivana was able to get outside the Eastern Bloc, where she married an Austrian skier, whom she soon divorced. Donald Trump married her in 1977, a year after they met at a model meeting in New York.
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They soon worked together on several large real estate projects. In the years that followed, they had three children: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.
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The disputed divorce of the New York duo in 1992 received a lot of attention in American media. The New York Times reported that Ivana Trump ended up getting $14 million and several houses from her ex-husband, on the condition that she wouldn’t talk to anyone about the details of the divorce. Donald Trump had an affair with Marla Maples since the late 1980s, whom he married in 1993.
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Ivana also married twice more. Her fourth husband, Italian actor Rossano Rubicondi, died of skin cancer in October last year. He was 49 years old.
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‘She embraced America’
“Ivana Trump was a survivor. She fled communism and embraced America. She taught her children to show perseverance and toughness but also compassion,” Ivana’s family told ABC News.
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After her divorce from Trump, Ivana founded her own fashion brand and wrote several books. She continued to live in New York but, like her former husband, spent a lot of time in Florida.
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Both former President Trump and Ivana’s family have not disclosed what caused her death.
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