Former US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his first wife, Ivana Trump, has died at the age of 73.
“It is with deep sadness that I inform all those who loved her that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York,” Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social.
Ivana reportedly helped her husband build some of the buildings that bear his name, such as Trump Tower in New York.
Donald and Ivana married in 1977, the couple divorced in 1992 and have three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric.
“Ivana Trump was a survivor. She fled communism and was embraced by this country. She taught her children generosity, fortitude, compassion and determination,” the Trump family said in a statement. Ivana reportedly grew up under communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia.
Neither the family’s statement nor Trump’s post indicated the cause of her death, but the New York Post, citing police sources who declined to be named, said that Ivana suffered a heart attack in her Manhattan apartment and that when paramedics arrived on the day They reached there on Thursday and died.
The New York Fire Department said it could not release the identities of the people, but said in a statement that paramedics responding to a report of a heart attack Thursday found a 73-year-old woman in the Upper East Side apartment where Ivana Trump was staying. They found him dead. lived.
Ivana Trump, a former model who trained with Czechoslovakia’s junior national ski team, was instrumental in building Trump’s media image in the 1980s, when they were one of New York City’s power couples.
The Times said she worked alongside her husband on the Trump Tower development in Manhattan and other landmark projects such as Trump’s Taj Mahal resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Ivana Trump was vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization and managed the historic Plaza Hotel, which Trump purchased in 1988, all while raising their three children.
“Our mother was an extraordinary woman. She was a strong businesswoman, a world-class athlete of stunning beauty. She was a loving mother and friend,” the Trump family said in a statement.
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