Ivana Trump
Ivana Trump in October 2007
Born	Ivana Marie Zelníčková (1949-02-20) February 20, 1949 (age 63) Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia
Ethnicity	Czech
Occupation	Actress, author, socialite
Years active	1970–present
Net worth	$100 million[citation needed]
Spouse	Alfred Winklmayr (1971–76) Donald Trump (1977–92) Riccardo Mazzucchelli (1995–97) Rossano Rubicondi (2008–2009)
Children	Donald Trump, Jr. Ivanka Trump Eric Trump
Parents	Milos Zelníček Maria (née Francova)
Website
IvanaTrump.com

Ivana Trump (born Ivana Marie Zelníčková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɪvana ˈmarɪjɛ ˈzɛlɲiːtʃkovaː]); February 20, 1949) is a former Olympic athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to mogul Donald Trump.

Early years[link]

Ivana was born to Milos and Maria (née Francova)^[1] in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, now Zlín, Czech Republic. From a very young age, her father nurtured and encouraged her skiing talent. In 1972, Ivana Zelníčková was selected as an alternate on the 1972 Czechoslovak Olympic Ski Team which allowed her several opportunities to travel outside the Communist Bloc. A year earlier, she married Austrian skier, Alfred Winklmayr, in order to obtain a foreign passport so that Communist leaders would not deem her a defector.

In the early 1970s she earned a master's degree in physical education from Charles University of Prague. In 1975 she left Czechoslovakia for Canada to be with a childhood friend, George Syrovatka, who owned a ski boutique there. For the following two years she lived in Montreal and worked as a model for some of Canada's top fur companies. In 1976 she divorced Winklmayr, left Syrovatka and moved to New York to promote the Montreal Olympics. It was in New York that she met Donald J. Trump, son of prominent real estate developer Fred Trump.

Marriages and family[link]

On April 7, 1977, Ivana married Trump in a lavish society wedding. The Trumps became leading figures in New York high society and business during the 1980s. They set to work on several massive projects, including the construction of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.^{[citation needed]}

They had three children: Donald John, Jr. (born 31 December 1977), Ivanka Marie (born 30 October 1981), and Eric (born 6 January 1984). She has four grandchildren. Three from her elder son's marriage to Vanessa Haydon: Kai Madison Trump (born May 12, 2007) Donald John Trump III (born February 18, 2009) and Tristan Milos Trump (born October 2, 2011) and one from her daughter's marriage: Arabella Rose Kushner (born July 17, 2011).

Ivana Trump took a major role in the Trump Organization. She became the Vice President of Interior Design for the company, spearheading the signature design of Trump Tower. Afterwards, Donald appointed her to head up the Trump Castle Hotel and Casino as president. She became a U.S. citizen in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

In the late 1980s, Trump decided to leave Atlantic City in order to devote more time to her family. However, Donald asked her to oversee the restoration of the landmark Plaza Hotel, and she took over as its president. She was named Hotelier of the Year in 1990. Trump's work at the Plaza would be the zenith of her work within the Trump Organization.

Towards the end of that year, rumors began to circulate that Donald was having an affair with a former beauty queen from Georgia, Marla Maples. While the family was on holiday in Aspen, Colorado that Christmastime, Ivana encountered Maples on the ski slopes; their confrontation was reported in the New York Post the following day. In 1991, Ivana retained entertainment attorney Neil Papiano and filed for divorce, seeking a greater amount of the family fortune than had been set out in her prenuptial agreement. Donald fought back in court, protesting Ivana's claims that she had contributed to the Trump Organization.

The divorce battle fueled extensive pieces in the gossip columns. In October 1990 Ivana's 63 year old father died suddenly from a heart attack. The Trumps stood side by side at the funeral.^[2] Their divorce was settled after that in 1992. ^[3]

Although the settlement remains sealed by the courts it is rumored that Ivana received $20 million, the $14 million family estate in Connecticut, a $5 million housing allowance, $350,000 annual alimony, all of her jewelry and 49% of Mar-A-Lago, the family home in Palm Beach which also serves as a private club for the Palm Beach elite. Not long after her divorce from Trump, Ivana married Riccardo Mazzucchelli. The marriage did not make it to its second anniversary. Trump filed a $15 million breach of contract suit against Mazzucchelli for violating the confidentiality clause in their prenuptial agreement. The suit was settled out of court.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2008, Trump, 59, married her on/off mate, Rossano Rubicondi, who is 24 years her junior.^[4] The $3 million wedding for 400 guests was hosted by ex-husband Donald Trump at his Florida Mar-A-Lago estate. Trump's daughter Ivanka, of the reality show The Apprentice, was her maid of honor.^[5] On December 1, 2008, Trump confirmed to the Associated Press that she had filed a legal separation agreement three months previously; she has stated in interviews that she and her husband have an on again off again relationship. Rubicondi became one of stars of the Italian reality show L'isola dei famosi (Celebrity Survivor) in 2008.

Career[link]

Soon after her divorce from Donald Trump, Ivana signed on with the William Morris Agency and developed lines of clothing, fashion jewelry and beauty products that have been successfully sold through television shopping channels. She has also written several bestselling books including the novels For Love Alone Lucy Wilkins and Free to Love and the self-help book The Best is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life Again. In 2001, Trump penned an advice column for Divorce Magazine.^[6] She played a cameo role in the Hollywood film The First Wives Club with the memorable line: "Remember girls: don't get mad, get everything."

Trump is presently involved in a trademark dispute with Donald regarding the use of her name for use with real estate services.^[7]

Trump recently sued a Finnish fashion company, accusing it of selling women's clothing that incorporates her name without permission.^[8]

Trump was the host of Oxygen Network's reality-dating series Ivana Young Man in 2006.

Trump's website,^[3] features her "Ivana Haute Couture" perfume and cosmetics lines as well as her line of cameo jewelry, designed in conjunction with Italian cameo sculpting firm M+M Scognamiglio.

Trump took part in Celebrity Big Brother in January 2010. She entered on January 9, and finished seventh on January 27, two days before the final.^[9] She is a guest on the island in Italian reality show L'isola dei famosi, a kind of Celebrity Survivor, in March 2010.^{[citation needed]}

In popular culture[link]

Absolutely Fabulous creator Jennifer Saunders has admitted that the character Patsy Stone (who shares Trump's characteristic blond beehive) is partially based on Trump.^[10]

Trump is referenced in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho as being a typical restaurant patron in Manhattan.

Trump made a cameo in the 1996 film The First Wives Club in which she proclaimed the line 'Ladies we have to be strong and independent and remember: don't get mad, get everything!"

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ivana Trump

• Official website

v t e Trump family and businesses Family First generation Fred Trump • Mary MacLeod Trump Second generation Donald Trump • Maryanne Trump Barry • Robert Trump • Fred Trump, Jr. • Elizabeth Trump Grau Third generation Maryanne Trump Barry - David Desmond | (Ivana Trump) - Donald Trump, Jr. • Ivanka Trump • Eric Trump | (Marla Maples) - Tiffany Trump | (Melania Knauss) - Barron William Trump | Fred Trump, Jr. - Fred Trump III • Mary Trump Media The Apprentice (Seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, MS) • The Ultimate Merger • Trumped! • Trump Magazine • Books Notable properties Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, Dubai, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York City, Panama City, SoHo, Toronto Trump Tower New York City, Philadelphia, White Plains, Denver, Istanbul, Manila Trump Tower Variations Trump World Tower, Elite Tower, Trump Towers by the Sea Trump Plaza Palm Beach, Manhattan, New Rochelle Other Properties Mar-A-Lago, Trump Grande, The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street, Trump Palace, Trump Parc, Trump Park Avenue, Grand Hyatt New York, Daewoo Trump World, Riverside South/Trump Place, Trump at Cap Cana Trump Golf The Estates at Trump National, Trump National Golf Club (Los Angeles), Trump National Golf Club (Philadelphia), Trump International Golf Links Various enterprises The Trump Organization • Miss Universe • Trump Ice • Trump Model Management • Trump Mortgage • Trump Shuttle • The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative • Miscellaneous Annual Revenue: $10.7 billion USD (FY 2007) | Employees: 22,450 | Website: The Trump Organization

William "Bill" Boggs III (born July 11, 1946) is an Emmy Award–winning American television presenter and journalist.

Boggs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the celebrity correspondent for the syndicated My Generation television show airing on PBS, featuring interviews inspired by his 2007 HarperCollins book, Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top. The book includes interviews with Renée Zellweger, Donald Trump, Sir Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Joe Torre, and others. He has also published a novel, At First Sight, with Grosett and Dunlap publishers.^{[citation needed]}

A former news anchorman for WNBC in New York, Boggs also presented several game shows for CBS. He created the first national restaurant review show, TV Diners, for the Food Network, and spent many years hosting the network's first non-cooking show, the celebrity interview show, Bill Boggs' Corner Table. Boggs co-executive produced and hosted TV's first syndicated stand up comedy series, Comedy Tonight in the late 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

Boggs appeared in several film and television dramas including Oz and Miami Vice. In New York City, he is also known for his stint in the 1970s as host of Midday Live on WNEW (now WNYW), succeeding Lee Leonard.^[1]

He debuted a solo stage show called Talk Show Confidential in 2003. The show, which includes stories and rare video clips from his years as a television talk show host, is currently running at the Triad Theatre in New York City.^[2]

Personal life[link]

He was briefly married to Canadian actress Linda Thorson; the couple have a son.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bill Boggs at the Internet Movie Database
• Personal Website

Melania Trump
Melania Trump at the QVC Red Carpet Style Party, Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, CA on February 25, 2011
Born	Melanija Knavs (1970-04-26) April 26, 1970 (age 42) Sevnica, Slovenia
Nationality	Slovenia
Occupation	Model, socialite, jewelry designer
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Donald J. Trump (2005-present)
Children	Barron Trump (b. 2006); four stepchildren from Trump's previous marriages
Website
Melania Trump Official Website

Melania Knauss-Trump (born Melanija Knavs, germanized to Melania Knauss; April 26, 1970^[1]) is a Slovenian former model and the wife of American real estate magnate Donald Trump. They married on January 22, 2005.^[2]

Life[link]

Knauss-Trump was born in the town of Sevnica in Slovenia's Lower Sava Valley (then part of Yugoslavia) in 1970. Her father Viktor Knavs was from the nearby town of Radeče, while her mother Amalija came from a village in the area surrounding Sevnica.^[3]

She met Donald Trump in the late 1990s. Knauss's relationship with Trump grew as she launched her modelling career, and also became involved with the social set of New York. Their relationship received increasing publicity after the launch of Trump's successful business-oriented reality television show, The Apprentice.

She appeared on The Howard Stern Show with Trump. This led to a layout in British GQ magazine, including the cover shot in January 2000.

Trump and Knauss became engaged in 2004, and married on January 22, 2005, at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate. Their wedding ceremony was widely covered by the media, with the fact that Knauss wore a $200,000 dress made by the house of Christian Dior often mentioned. The cake at the reception was a 50-pound orange Grand Marnier cake with a Grand Marnier butter-cream filling, covered with 3,000 roses, constructed by the chef at Mar-A-Lago.

On March 20, 2006, Knauss-Trump gave birth to a boy, whom the couple named Barron William Trump. Donald Trump made the announcement via phone on the Imus in the Morning show about 20 minutes after birth, stating that "everyone's perfect". It was Trump's fifth child.

Promoting Trump's presidential goals[link]

When husband Donald Trump announced presidential ambitions, Melania Trump began helping. Reports in the media state: "Melania Trump is already pondering her role as a possible First Lady - all while plugging her QVC line of sparkly baubles."^[4] "Melania Trump will stand by her husband whether he decides to run for president or not."^[5] And speculation about: "Would Melania Trump Be the Hottest First Lady Ever?"^[6]

Career[link]

After obtaining a degree in design and architecture^{[citation needed]} at the University of Ljubljana, she started working as a model both in Milan and Paris before settling in New York City in 1996. She was on the cover of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Ocean Drive, In Style, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Self, Glamour, Elle, and appeared in the 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

In February 2010, Knauss-Trump announced the launch of a jewellery collection with QVC. Knauss appeared in a television advertisement for Aflac insurance, in which she and the Aflac mascot, a duck, voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried, exchange personalities via a Frankenstein-like mad experiment.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Melania Trump

• Melania's official website
• Melania Trump at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Trump family and businesses Family First generation Fred Trump • Mary MacLeod Trump Second generation Donald Trump • Maryanne Trump Barry • Robert Trump • Fred Trump, Jr. • Elizabeth Trump Grau Third generation Maryanne Trump Barry - David Desmond | (Ivana Trump) - Donald Trump, Jr. • Ivanka Trump • Eric Trump | (Marla Maples) - Tiffany Trump | (Melania Knauss) - Barron William Trump | Fred Trump, Jr. - Fred Trump III • Mary Trump Media The Apprentice (Seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, MS) • The Ultimate Merger • Trumped! • Trump Magazine • Books Notable properties Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, Dubai, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York City, Panama City, SoHo, Toronto Trump Tower New York City, Philadelphia, White Plains, Denver, Istanbul, Manila Trump Tower Variations Trump World Tower, Elite Tower, Trump Towers by the Sea Trump Plaza Palm Beach, Manhattan, New Rochelle Other Properties Mar-A-Lago, Trump Grande, The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street, Trump Palace, Trump Parc, Trump Park Avenue, Grand Hyatt New York, Daewoo Trump World, Riverside South/Trump Place, Trump at Cap Cana Trump Golf The Estates at Trump National, Trump National Golf Club (Los Angeles), Trump National Golf Club (Philadelphia), Trump International Golf Links Various enterprises The Trump Organization • Miss Universe • Trump Ice • Trump Model Management • Trump Mortgage • Trump Shuttle • The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative • Miscellaneous Annual Revenue: $10.7 billion USD (FY 2007) | Employees: 22,450 | Website: The Trump Organization

Ivanka Trump
Trump at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Ivanka Marie Trump (1981-10-30) October 30, 1981 (age 30) New York, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Businesswoman, socialite, heiress, fashion model
Years active	1997–present
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Jared Kushner (2009–present)
Children	1
Parents	Donald Trump Ivana Trump

Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Czech model Ivana Trump and American business magnate Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization. She is one of the boardroom judges on her father's reality show The Apprentice.

Early life[link]

Ivanka Trump attended The Chapin School in New York City, and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. She spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude in 2004 with a B.S. in Economics.^[1][2][3]

Business career[link]

Before joining the family business, Trump worked for Forest City Enterprises,^[4] and joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond trading company sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry at the brand's first flagship retail store called 'Ivanka Trump' on Madison Avenue. Trump is currently Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization.

Modeling career[link]

Trump's first cover was a 1997 issue of Seventeen. Since then, she has made her way down fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. She has done advertisement campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007. She was also featured on the covers of Forbes, Golf Magazine, Avenue Magazine, Elle Mexico and in the October 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar.^[5] She placed Number 83 in the 2007 Maxim Hot 100. She has also placed Number 99 in the Top 99 Women of 2007 and then at 84 in the 2008 edition on AskMen.com. Trump's page^[6] in the Fashion Model Directory provides complete professional details of her prior work in that domain.

Television appearances[link]

[edit] The Apprentice

In 2006, she filled in for Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of her father's television program The Apprentice 5, first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2.^[7] Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams, asking them pointed questions. She also evaluated contestants in the boardroom, pointing out critical errors and rebutting excuses they offered for losing the tasks. Though initially unsympathetic to the contestants, Trump later said, "Whenever I see their breakdowns, I understand. They go virtually 24 hours a day, and each task takes about three days. Unless they win, they don't get a day off... It's an incredible amount of work..."^[5] Trump now collaborates with season 5 winner Sean Yazbeck on his winner's project of choice, Trump Soho Hotel-Condominium.^[8][9]

Trump replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the Apprentice 6 and The Celebrity Apprentice.

Other TV appearances[link]

Ivanka Trump in July 2007.

In 1997, she hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant, which is partially owned by her father, Donald Trump. In 2003, she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent families. During an April 2006 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jay Leno commented that he could hear her father's influence and inflections in her. David Letterman also made a similar comment when she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 24, 2007.^{[citation needed]} Trump was a featured guest-judge on Project Runway Season 3. She was also at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, event in April 2007 called the Creating Wealth Summit in which she spoke for about 30 minutes about making money and her latest projects. She has been offered to appear on The Bachelorette, but she declined.^[10] On October 25, 2010, Trump along with her husband, Jared Kushner, showed up on Season 4 Episode 6 of Gossip Girl portraying themselves for a brief time.^[11]