Ivanka Trump. The girl without childhood
"Dad is my hero." She says it without the slightest hint of doubt Ivanka Trump, on the edge of 16 years, the daughter of Donald Trump, a New York princess and top model - she has debuted in New York with a Ralph Lauren collection - in the making. The pilot of her private plane awaits Ivanka's arrival in the rain. And it is that, when the father is not there, it is the daughter who commands ...
The Boeing 727 rolls onto the runway and, moments later, the New York haze transforms into a blazing blue sky. The mid-March vacation, the spring break of American schools, allows Ivanka to go browning in the Florida sun, at her mansion in Mar A Lago, the immense property of her family.
"I usually take my friends twice a month, when Dad has a place on the plane, because he often invites his friends too, Elizabeth Taylor or Michael Jackson. We usually share the forty rooms between our respective friends. Although I always keep mine, because it has a huge TV. "
On board, a waiter passes a large tray full of smoked salmon, sandwiches, canapes, fruits and cheeses. "It is not easy at all to keep the line with all these delicacies, although I try to do a lot of sports to keep in shape! And above all, studies."
Paparazzi. When Donald Trump comes home and surprises her daughter on the beach, Ivanka jumps for joy, throws herself around his neck, and sits next to her father for lunch. "The press? I'm used to being photographed after the years spent with my parents. What I don't like is being surprised by the paparazzi in intimate and private situations." Ivanka listens very carefully to her father talking about the Miss Universe pageant that she has just bought for a few billion pesetas.
But the young woman is not so interested in the amount of the transaction as in the television contracts, which her father is negotiating with the large American networks. "I want to be a lawyer," she affirms suddenly, as if wanting to sketch her self-portrait from head to toe.
At first, the house had c102 rooms. Later, some of them were expanded and built a huge gym. "Mom has a house three minutes from here. It's very easy to pay her a visit ...". Ivanka has learned good manners very early on and has been kept away from the public and the press as much as possible by her mother Ivana hers, today married to an Italian businessman. Her relationships with her stepmother Marla are good, but with whom she really understands in depth is with her father. "My father is the greatest and the best. He is a formidable father. Very nice and very different from the idea that people have of him. He is also a very protective father. The day I bring a boyfriend home, surely he will be waiting for us behind the door with a hunting gun. "
"MY FATHER IS THE GREATEST AND THE BEST. HE IS A FORMIDABLE FATHER. VERY SIMPATIC AND DIFFERENT FROM THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE MAKE OF HIM"
Castle with golf, tennis, swimming pool, private beach and theater; stairs and stairways, terraces, paintings, tapestries, sofas of all kinds, lamps of all styles and colors, ornaments and armor; receptionists, cooks, drivers, porters, gardeners, masseuse, lifeguard and butler; acres of lawns, palm trees, fountains and obelisks. All this and much more is Mar A Lago. Built in 1927 in Moorish style, it is shaped like a croissant with a dome on two floors connected by a 25-meter staircase. An exact copy of the Academy of Venice, the hall has a gilded ceiling and its seven silk tapestries from the 16th century come from an Italian palace. 36,000 Spanish tiles, some from the 15th century, decorate the entrance, the arcades and the rooms. The marbles come from Cuba and the wood for doors, beams and ceilings is Florida cypress. "It takes a little time to get used to the splendor of the mansion, but afterwards, you love it and you can't do without it anymore. It's like you're in a castle from the last century. Very romantic, surrounded only by beautiful things: silence, peace and everything that I like the most.
Mar A Lago is paradise on Earth ".
Ivanka and her friends quickly change their clothes and go, smiling and happy, down the corridor that connects the park to the beach.
Fashion. "At my age, fashion is not very important. What interests me the most is casual and comfortable fashion. Of course, like everyone else, I love Gucci, but I prefer Dolce and Gabbana clothes .. . Being a model does not help me to choose, because there are so many couturiers. In any case, the priority is my studies. I usually study with Mozart music in the background. Since I do it I get better grades. To study neither Bob Marley nor Björk, but I love listening to you ... ".
"My zodiac sign is Scorpio. A sign that gets on well with Geminis, like dad ... My main quality is loyalty. I am very faithful to my friends and I hope they are also faithful to me ... My favorite foods : tomatoes and mozzarella, chips, cream chesse, onion soup ... I don't mind being sexy, but I do care, not only physically, but also internally, through my actions and my relationships with people ... " .
"I have a partial driving license, which means that whenever I take the car out I have to be accompanied by an adult. Someday I would like to drive a Porsche ... The woman I admire the most is Audrey Hepburn. What a class and what a beauty hers! An impeccable life, a formidable career and, furthermore, he has turned to organizations like Unicef ... ". Ivanka and Donald are going to play tennis. Marla - her stepmother - her daughter, her friends and two bodyguards serve as their audience. "When do I have the best time? When I beat my dad at tennis at Mar A Lago ...".
OF SUCH STICK SUCH SLIP.
Papa Trump, more millionaire, stubborn, risky, pushy, megalomaniac, divorced and rich in scandals than his beloved daughter Ivanka, has become the ghost of the business magician that he was.
In true Dynasty style, Trump's life is peppered with skyscrapers, casinos, a millionaire divorce, ruins, jackpot blondes, misses and series B actresses. Donald John Trump (New York, 1946), son of a real estate entrepreneur, he learned almost at the time to stammer "money calls money" and the traditional "papa." Young Donald, Daddy's attentive companion at work, watched his family make gold by buying, selling, and appreciating all of New York. At 28, he inherited the empire. He went hunting and buying, building and baptizing - all with the Trump name - the most iconic buildings in the Big Apple and the most luxurious casinos in Atlantic City. Trump tower, Trump Princess yacht, Trump airlift ... even a particular monopoly, Trump: the game.
Bonanza in the 80s and ruin in the 90s. The real estate mogul has never tired of zeroing out his income statement, while Forbes magazine was in charge of lowering them on its lists of the richest in North America. In 1988, his fortune was around 290,000 million pesetas. To record his wisdom he would publish his biography, Trump or the art of selling, and two years later, he had to use that art to sell everything, but to deal with his creditors. It was the announcement of his descent into the hell of debt. In a desperate time trial with bankruptcy, he sold, pawned, defaulted, auctioned and, to top it all, his divorce from Ivana Trump - blamed by his lover Marla Marples - cost him 1,450 million pesetas, an apartment in Connecticut and a lifetime salary of almost 90 million in favor of the blonde. In '92, Forbes updated his fortune and revised it down: 72,500 million. Trump had properties worth $ 536.5 billion, but his debts were around $ 464,000. The numbers don't lie. It was ruin.
Three years ago Trump took a breath and made headlines again. Together with some Japanese partners, he announced that the Empire State became his property for 5,600 million pesetas. Last October, he declared that he had managed to overcome a debt of 290,000 million pesetas. And this month, Donald Trump, 51, has just launched in the United States his new treatise on "good manners", Trump or the art of return. "You can never throw in the towel," he has said. It is his new slogan.
