According to report, on Thursday afternoon, emergency responders investigating a call from Ivana Trump’s home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side found her unconscious. They pronounced her dead at the scene and noted that there did “not appear to be any criminality”, police said in a statement.
Ivana
Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, died of "blunt impact injuries" to
the torso, the New York City medical examiner's office has said.
It added
that the death of the 73-year-old on Thursday was accidental.
Reports in
US media say she died after falling down stairs in her New York City apartment.
Ivana
Trump, who was born in what was then Czechoslovakia, married the former
president in 1977. They divorced 15 years later in 1992.
Ivana
Trump was born in Zlin – now the Czech Republic – in 1949. She was a skier, ski
instructor and model before marrying Donald Trump in 1977, when he was a real
estate tycoon.
She
partnered with Trump in managing casinos and hotels while helping him become a
Manhattan and global socialite throughout the 1980s. She was also the mother to
his children Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric.
The pair
divorced in 1992, with Donald Trump’s infidelity precipitating their split. He
later married and divorced Marla Maples, with whom he had daughter Tiffany and
is now with his third wife, Melania Knauss Trump, the mother of his son Barron
and the first lady during his presidency from 2017 to 2021.
Ivana and
Donald Trump in the 1980s. As vice-president of interior design for the Trump
Organization, Ivana influenced real-estate projects in New York and Atlantic
City.
Ivana
Trump had said she supported her ex-husband’s run for the White House but said
she wanted “this whole thing to be over with” after he lost to Joe Biden and
desperately sought to overturn the result, including by telling his supporters
to “fight like hell” shortly before hundreds of them mounted a deadly attack on
the Capitol.
She said
she believed her children “enjoyed being around Donald and running the election
and seeing what will happen” but she wanted them to one day “be able to live
their normal lives”.
"She
was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and
inspirational life," Mr Trump said.
They had
three children together - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump.
Donald and
Ivana Trump were notable public figures in New York in the 1980s and 1990s, and
their split was the subject of intense public interest.
After
their separation, Trump went on to launch her own lines of beauty products,
clothing and jewellery.
She took credit for bringing up their children in her 2017 memoir Raising Trump, saying she "made the decisions about their education, activities, travel, child care, and allowances" until college.
In the book, she added that her relationship with Mr Trump had improved since their divorce, and said she spoke to him about once a week.
The Trump
family lauded her in a statement as "a force in business, a world-class
athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend".
"Ivana
Trump was a survivor. She fled from communism and embraced this country,"
the statement added. "She taught her children about grit and toughness,
compassion and determination."
Ivanka
Trump, who was said to be very close to her mother, said in an Instagram post
she was "heartbroken".
"Mom
was brilliant, charming, passionate and wickedly funny. She modelled strength,
tenacity and determination in her every action. She lived life to the fullest -
never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and dance," she wrote.
Donald
Trump was Ivana's second husband. Her first, Alfred Winklmayr, was an Austrian
ski instructor and friend who she reportedly married in order to obtain
Austrian citizenship.
That
marriage allowed her to leave Czechoslovakia, her communist home country,
without defecting.
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