Ivana Trump, the first wife of former US president Donald died at 73: life, from Czech origins to marriage with the Italian Rubicondi

She died at 73 Ivana Trumpformer wife of the former president of the United States Donald and mother of his own three eldest children, Donald John jr., Ivanka and Eric. This was announced by the tycoon himself in a message on Truth, the social network he founded. “I’m very saddened in informing all those who loved her, and they are many, that Ivana Trump died in her home in New York, ”he wrote. “She was a wonderful, beautiful and formidable woman who led an extraordinary life and source of inspiration. His pride and her joy were his three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we all of her. Rest in peace, Ivana! ”. According to the US broadcaster AbcManhattan paramedics, answering an emergency call for a cardiac arrestthey found the lifeless woman in the Upper East Side apartment where she lived.

Born Ivana Marie Zelníčková in 1949, the Czech model married Donald in 1977, aged 24. The couple was one of the most famous in the US on horseback between the 80s and 90sbefore a public – and noisy – split due to Trump’s meeting with Marla Maples, who will become his second wife. In recent years, the two had returned on good terms. In 2016, Ivana told al New York Post to be a supporter and advisor to her ex-husband-turned-president: “Let’s talk before and after hers public appearances, he asks me what I think. I advise him to stay calmer“. After Trump, Ivana had two other husbands: the Italian-American entrepreneur Riccardo Mazzuchelli and the Italian model Rossano Rubicondi. With the latter she participated as a couple in the 2018 edition of the Rai 1 show dancing with the Stars.