What really happened between Ivana and Donald Trump?
Ivana Trump, the mother of three of Donald Trump's five children, recently proclaimed herself "the first lady of the United States". Back on the story of a "bling-bling" couple ...
Marriage, jetset, tumultuous divorce, relations between Ivana and her ex-husband Donald Trump have not always been in good shape. Light on what really happened.
Love, glory and jetset
It was in 1976 that Donald Trump and Ivana Zelnicek met. She is a Czech-born supermodel, he, the wealthy heir to her father's real estate empire, Fred Trump.
Donald Trump has a clear penchant for models from the East, it is only natural that he falls for Ivana. The following year Donald Trump and Ivana married, forming one of the flagship couples of the American jet set. From their union are born first Donald Jr. in 1977, then Ivanka in 1981 and finally Eric in 1984.
A heated (and costly) divorce
In total, Donald Trump and Ivana will have been married for fifteen years. Until Donald's affair with Marla Marples came to light. In 1990, Ivana Trump therefore filed for divorce. But Donald Trump complicates the matter by contesting the agreements signed with Ivana in 1987 on the division of their property.
As a woman I felt raped
In addition, there are other disputes. Donald Trump would indeed have already been violent towards her and would have forced her to have sex. At least, that's what the ex-supermodel said in several of her statements. A book devoted to Donald Trump, published in 1993, even discloses a statement from Ivana to the police:
“On one occasion in 1989, Mr. Trump and I had a relationship in which he behaved towards me in a different way. As a woman, I felt violated, as if love and the tenderness that usually emanated from him was absent. " But the jetseteuse recently reconsidered her remarks, explaining that she simply felt "abused" but not to have been "raped" by her ex-husband ...
After an eventful legal battle, the couple finally divorced in 1992. According to the New York Times, Ivana would then have received 7.9 million euros in compensation and 3.5 million euros in compensation to relieve her departure from home. , or rather of the conjugal villa. Added to this is a house in Connecticut and an apartment in Trump Plaza that she keeps, as well as a pension of 473,400 euros per year for the three children. Donald Trump finally married Marla Marples, from whom he divorced in 1999.
Today, the former spouses are again on very good terms. Donald Trump would even have loaned his villa to Ivana for her marriage to her third husband.
Ivana and the Trump clan
Unlike his daughter Ivanka, who is Donald Trump's true right-hand man, Ivana - who is still referred to as "Ivana Trump" - does not carry out political actions alongside the Trump clan. However, she strongly supports the political ideas of her ex-husband. Last September Ivana spoke out on Donald Trump’s political ideas on immigration.
"I agree with him. I think Mexicans and people who immigrate are fine because they work and are decent people. But they have to come here legally, speak at least a little English and pay taxes. I don't agree with the fact that when an 18-year-old crosses the border pregnant and gives birth, the child is automatically American… Who pays for the food and the hospitality? Americans, ”she told the New York Post.
A subject on which the ex-supermodel was also pronounced in the 70s, with much less restraint: "As long as you come here legally, with a real job ... We need immigrants. Who's going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up behind us? Americans don't like to do that. "
Today, Ivana would like to become US Ambassador to the Czech Republic. So, no, she's never been in politics either, but whatever.
“This is where I'm from, me and my accent and everyone knows me. Not just in America. I've written three books that have been translated into 25 languages and distributed in 40 countries. I'm known as Ivana's name. I don't even need Trump's name. " she told the New York Post.
And since in the United States the president is also the head of diplomacy, it is a safe bet that the jetseteuse will achieve its ends!
