It has been announced that Ivana Trump’s burial will be held on Wednesday in a lavish Catholic church near to where she resided in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
At a “Celebration of Life” at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church on Lexington Avenue, Mrs. Trump, 73, will be remembered.
The socialite from the Czech Republic, who had been married to former President Donald Trump for 15 years as his first wife, passed away on Thursday after falling down some stairs.
According to an invitation that the New York Post was able to secure, the proceedings will start at 1.30pm.
A family insider informed the magazine that Melania will not be there. It is unknown if Donald will go to the funeral.
An instant request for comment from Mr. Trump’s representatives was not immediately returned.
According to the invitation, “donations to the big dog rescue are appreciated in place of flowers.”
Ivana and Donald had three kids together: Ivanka, 40, Eric, 38, and Donald Jr., 44.
Despite getting married twice more, she continued to use her ex-last husband’s name.
In order to be with Donald, Ivana relocated to Canada after fleeing communist Czechoslovakia in 1971.
In order to obtain an Austrian passport and a one-way ticket to the West, she briefly wed Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr, a friend.
After less than two years, they got divorced.
In the early 1970s, Ivana herself instructed skiing in Montreal.
A picture of Ivana dressed glamorously skiing is on the funeral invitation.
The marriage of Donald and Ivana lasted until 1992.
Their public divorce proceedings were covered extensively in the tabloids.
Ivana eventually received $14 million ($30 million now) and the right to spend one month annually at Mar-a-Lago.
Ivana’s ex-husband called her a “great, gorgeous, and amazing woman” in a post on the social media platform Truth Social.
Additionally, she claimed to have a tight relationship with her ex-husband, which reportedly included a direct line to the White House that she avoided using out of respect for Donald and Melania, 52.
Ivana, 73, hasn’t talked much about Melania’s place in their life, although she did tell say that Ivanka, her daughter, gets along “great” with her father’s third wife.
When Melania formally proclaimed herself the first lady in 2017, rumours about Ivana’s alleged dislike for her quickly spread.
Since I am the first Trump wife, I don’t want to arouse any jealously or other negative emotions while Melania is present.
OK, I’m the first lady. Ivana stated in an interview with “Good Morning America” in October 2017.
Ivana’s net worth was assessed to be $100 million at the time of her passing by Celebrity Net Worth.
Ivana was born in the Czech city of Zlin in 1949 to parents Milo Zelnek, an electrical engineer, and Marie Zelnková, a telephone operator.
She was an amazing skier. Her father had supported her in developing that gift, and it turned out to be the key to her freedom from the oppressive Communist lifestyle behind the Iron Curtain.
In her story, Ivana described how Donald got her and her guests a table at a popular Manhattan restaurant, took care of the bill, and drove her back to her hotel in a Cadillac.
In her 2017 memoir, “Raising Trump,” she stated, “My instincts told me that Donald was smart and funny – an all-American good guy.”
Ivana used her renowned work ethic to turn her $14 million divorce settlement from Donald into an even greater fortune, but that encounter was instrumental in catapulting her to a life of unfathomable wealth and luxury.
Throughout the Trumps’ turbulent 15-year marriage, Ivana worked as executive vice president of interior design for the then-real estate mogul’s companies rather than taking it easy.
This included being in charge of the Trump Tower’s interior design, which features a famous pink marble finish.
Along with the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, Ivana oversaw the construction of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
After Donald acquired the Central Park South property in 1988, she later rose to the position of manager at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City.
At the height of their romance, the two were business partners and collaborated on a number of significant ventures, including the construction of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the renovation of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, and the development of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
After Ivana learned that Donald was having an affair with Marla Maples, who would later become his second wife, they were seen fighting while on vacation in Aspen, Colorado, in 1989. Marla Maples would later become Donald’s second wife.
Ivana and Donald’s marriage broke down in 1990, but she was able to use a pre-nuptial agreement that had been revised four times during their union to negotiate one of the largest divorce settlements in history at the time.
After the divorce was finally settled in 1992, she received a tidy $14 million.
Along with that one-time payment, Ivana also received a 45-room Connecticut mansion and a unit at Trump’s Trump Plaza apartment building in New York.
In 1998, she went on to sell the Connecticut mansion for $15 million, nearly tripling her wealth overnight.
Ivana also received permission to use Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club for one month each year in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Despite going through a contentious divorce because of Donald’s affair with Maples, the couple reunited in 1995 for a funny Pizza Hut commercial that parodied their own union.
The couple pretended to flirt in the commercial while subtly suggesting that reconciling would be “wrong.”
Then they said that they had been talking about starting with the pizza crust.
That advertisement exemplified Ivana’s desire to work in order to advance her profession rather than squander her divorce settlement.
Her renowned glittering taste in apparel and jewellery served as the inspiration for a number of her fashion lines, which she created and sold on QVC and the Home Shopping Network.
Ivana would frequently go on television to promote her products because she understood the power of her image.
Making her followers believe that buying something from one of her collections will enable them start living an enviable lifestyle like her was the key to her success.
The House of Ivana fashion and fragrance brand was established on New York’s Park Avenue by Ivana in 1995, marking the apex of her career as a fashion plate.
Ivana dabbled in the media in 1998, buying a stake in the Slobodna Dalmacija newspaper in Croatia, which was ultimately sold as the business struggled.
Although she experimented in real estate development, selling her own image was where she consistently found the most success.
For Love Alone and Free To Love are two of the many autobiographical books Ivana has written.
She also wrote The Best Is Yet To Come, a 1995 self-help book, and she even started writing an agony aunt column.
From 1995 through 2010, the Ask Ivanka segment appeared in Globe and ran for an astounding 15 years.
Ivana spent most of her later years mainly out of the public eye. The authoritative story of her marriage to the then-newly elected president, Raising Trump, was released by her in 2017.
The book also discussed Ivana’s interactions with the three kids of the couple—Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric.