Ivana Trump, former wife of Donald Trump, dead at age 73

July 14, 2022 4:35 pm • Last Updated: July 14, 2022 5:26 pm

By Washington Post

FILE - Ivana Trump is shown with two of her children, Ivanka, left, and Eric, as Riccardo Mazzucchelli looks on in October 1993. Ivana Trump, the first wife of Donald Trump, has died in New York City, the former president announced on social media Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - Donald Trump and then-wife, Ivana Trump, pose outside the Federal Courthouse in New York, after she was sworn in as a United States citizen, in May 1988. Ivana Trump, the first wife of Trump, has died in New York City, the former president announced on social media Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

Ivana Trump arrives for the opening of the 17th annual Life Ball in front of Vienna's city hall, in this May 16, 2009. Ivana Trump, who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday, July 14, 2022. She was 73. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)

Ivana Trump, a former wife of Donald Trump, has died at age 73.

The former president announced her death in a post on Truth Social:

"I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City. She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!"

Ivana Trump was the former president's first wife. The cause of death was unknown.

Born under Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia to an engineer and a telephone operator, Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump was a skier and fashion model who immigrated to the Americas in the 1970s, first arriving in Canada.

According to a New York Magazine article from the time, Ivana Trump met Donald Trump during a trip to New York, in which she was working as a model to promote the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. They married in 1977 and divorced in 1992. She kept his surname.

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