Ivana Trump, a Czech immigrant who was the first wife of Donald Trump during his rise to prominence as a celebrity and real estate investor in the 1980s, and the mother of his three eldest children, has died aged 73.
Trump, who dubbed her husband “the Donald” during their 13-year marriage, had been a competitive skier in her native Czechoslovakia and later became a model in Canada and New York. Accounts vary about how they met, but at the time, she noted in a 1995 memoir The Best Is Yet to Come that he “wasn’t famous” and “wasn’t fabulously wealthy”.
