donald trump and his whole family met in New York this Wednesday, July 20 (United States of America) to attend the funeral of Ivana Trump, the former US President’s first wife and mother of three of his children, who died last week at the age of 73.
The service was held at the San Vicente Ferrer Catholic Church in Manhattan and was attended not only by the couple’s three descendants – Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka – but also by many other members of the clan, including the New Yorker’s current wife Tycoon Melania Trump; his son Barron; and Trump’s daughter with Marla Maples, Tiffany.
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Several of them took the floor during the performance to commemorate the former model and businesswoman who emigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia and married Trump in 1977, forming one of the most popular couples of the New York jet set at the time. . .
“It was the personalization of the American Dream. She was a force of nature,” her son Eric recalled at the funeral, according to the New York Post today.
“He treated all three of us (kids) with an iron fist but also a heart of gold,” said the middle descendant of the couple, who divorced in 1992, amid widespread media scrutiny following Trump’s affair with actress Marla Maples, who he would marry a year later.
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Ivana, who decided to keep her first husband’s surname, went on to develop a diverse career marketing clothing, jewelry and beauty products; He also wrote several books and worked on magazines.
His death occurred last Thursday and would have been the result of a fall on the stairs of his luxurious New York home, according to authorities.