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Responding officers declared Ivana deceased at the scene.
Media reports of her unexpected death left the world reeling.
In its ensuing coverage,CNNidentified Ivana as “an ex-wife of former President Donald Trump.”
That said, Ivana’s Olympics career may have been greatly exaggerated by her then-husband.
Some say they met in Montreal, where she was living at the time (viaPeople).
Others say it was in New York City (viaThe New York Times).
On April 7, 1977, Donald took Ivana’s hand in marriage (viaYahoo!
), and the couple opted for a private ceremony, according to theDaily Mail.
“Seated next to Luciano Pavarotti for a dinner at the Central Park Boathouse.
As the celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan said, Ivana Trump was the “bold in the bold-faced name.”
But upon her marriage to Trump, Ivana made certain the world would follow right along withher stunning transformation.
That was the renovation of the Grand Central Station-adjacent Commodore Hotel into the Hyatt Grand.
The timing could not have been more perfect.
“Ivana’s style defined Trump’s first big real-estate project,“The Guardianreported.
“Her attention to every detail, from plumbing to painting, was compared to a general’s.”
Ivana later on to give the same 1980s treatment to two of Trump’s casino acquisitions.
And who else better than his twin to charge with running his casino empire?
Perhaps she was just a little too good at her job?
Indeed, the Trump marriage blew up not long after this, according to theBBC.
By 1990, Donald was reportedly locking Ivana out of her own office at the Plaza.
As the history books will show, Donald didn’t take her up on it.
And it was there on the screen that she uttered the words quoted by spurned spouses everywhere.
(viaFox News).
Next came Rossano Rubicondi, an Italian actor more than two decades younger than Ivana.
The two married in 2008 and divorced the following year.
