Ivana Trump took a first class flight out of Washington DC just SIX hours after the inauguration to avoid running into Marla Maples
- Ivana Trump took a first class flight out of Washington DC at 6pm on the day of the inauguration a fellow passenger tells DailyMail.com
- She was reportedly making an early exit because she did not want to run into Marla Maples at the inaugural balls that evening
- Ivana, 67, was joined on the flight by her mother Marie Zelnickova, a friend, and a body guard
- She was also not spotted at the inauguration ceremony on Friday
- Marla was having an affair with Donald towards the end of his marriage to Ivana
- Ivana blamed Marla for causing her divorce from Donald in an interview with DailyMail.com
Ivana Trump's trip to Washington DC for her ex-husband's inauguration was reportedly cut short when she learned that his second wife would also be in attendance.
Ivana, 67, hightailed it out of the nation's capital and skipped the inaugural ball after Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States because Marla Maples was also set to be at the celebration, reports Page Six.
'[Ivana] had planned to go out and celebrate after the swearing-in, but when she found out that Marla was going, she canceled,' said an insider.
She was also nowhere to be seen at the actual inauguration, unable to sit in her reserved front row seat because she brought her wheelchair-bound mother Marie Zelnickova with her.
Just a few hours later, she was on a flight making her way back to New York City so she would not have to risk running into Marla, whose affair with Donald was revealed just before her and Ivana split 27 years ago.
A passenger who was on her fight confirmed her early departure to Dailymail.com.
They said Ivana was with a woman around her same age with short blonde hair, her mother and a bodyguard on a 6pm Delta flight out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport headed to LaGuardia Airport.
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Gone girl: Ivana Trump took a first class flight out of Washington DC at 6pm on the day of the inauguration a fellow passenger tells DailyMail.com (Ivana is pictured last Thursday leaving her NYC townhouse to go to DC for the inauguration)
Evading the enemy: She was reportedly making an early exit because she did not want to run into Marla Maples at the inaugural balls that evening (Maples above at the inaugural ball with daughter Tiffany)
'The flight was on Friday out of Reagan at 6pm to LaGuardia, she was in first class with her bodyguard from a private company and one other woman who I didn't recognize,' the passenger told DailyMail.com.
'She looked like classic Ivana, fur coat, brown pantsuit etc. I will say, she didn't seem to be to into the flight- the whole walk from the terminal to the baggage claim at LaGuardia she was holding on to her bodyguard, and at the baggage claim her friend asked her if she wanted to wait in the car.
'She said, in kind of a strained voice, "no I'm fine" and just held onto some railing. I went up to her and wished her and her children the very best, she just said "Zank You" and smiled.'
Ivana had been spotted making her way down to DC just one day prior, exiting her New York City townhouse in a giant blue fur coat.
She wore that same blue coat on the flight home according to the passenger on the plane.
Marla meanwhile attended the inaugural ball alongside daughter Tiffany and her boyfriend Ross Mechanic.
She also spent the night before the big event hanging out with former Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin.
At the inauguration, she was photographed alongside her friends, and later that day slipped into a $2,200 John Paul Attaker gown from the label's Spring/Summer 2017 collection for the big night.
Dinner date: Marla enjoyed dinner the night before the inauguration with former Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin (above)
Front and center: Marla then watched her ex-husband be sworn in on the Washington Mall last Friday (above with friends)
End of the day: Marla finished off her inauguration day by partying with her daughter's friends. Front row left to right: Andre Warren, Ross Mechanic, Tiffany Trump and Lizzy Pergament. Back row left to right: Maples and Marcy Warren
Ivana was not spotted by anyone, even on social media, at the ceremony, so there is a chance she may have elected to watch some of her grandchildren while her children were out for their father's big day.
Ivana was a 28-year-old model from Czechoslovakia in 1977 when she married Donald.
The couple went on to have three children before divorcing in 1992.
She was rumored to have gotten approximately $20million, their $15million estate and 49% ownership in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in their divorce.
She also reportedly receives $350,000 a year in alimony and was able to keep all her jewelry.
At the time there was also much talk about Donald's relationship with Marla, and rumors that Ivana had it out with the other woman on the ski slopes of Aspen.
Donald said around that time in an interview with Vanity Fair: 'To tell you the truth, I’ve made Ivana a very popular woman. I’ve made a lot of satellites. Hey, whether it’s Marla or Ivana. Marla can do any movie she wants to now. Ivana can do whatever she wants.'
Ivana told a much different story however to Liz Smith about the horrible impact the divorce was allegedly having on the couple's children.
'The children are all wrecks. I don’t know how Donald can say they are great and fine,' said Ivana.
'Ivanka now comes home from school crying, "Mommy, does it mean I’m not going to be Ivanka Trump anymore?" Little Eric asks me, "Is it true you are going away and not coming back?"'
Back in the day: Marla (left in 1992) was having an affair with Donald towards the end of his marriage to Ivana (right in 1987)
Not a fan: Ivana blamed Marla for causing her divorce from Donald in an interview with DailyMail.com (couple above in 1991 after announcing their split)
Marla also spoke about her relationship with Ivana in People last year, responding to Ivana's comments to DailyMail.com that she did not accept Marla's apology for her role in the breakup of her marriage to Trump.
'That makes me sad because I wish her nothing but love,' said Marla.
'I love her kids, and if she's holding any kind of resentment toward me, I really hope, for her sake, that she can forgive me.'
Maples also said of her time with Trump; 'If I had to do it over again, I would just live my life and not worry so much about what other people thought.
'I wish I had had more fun. Even during the crazy times, I wish I’d laughed more.'
Ivana went on to get married two more times, first to Riccardo Mazzucchelli in 1995, a union that was dissolved after two years.
She was married for the second time to Rossano Rubicond in 2008, but that union lasted less than a year with the two divorcing in 2009, though they have been seen together many times since.
Marla never remarried after divorcing Trump.
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